- Theophan The Recluse
St. Theophan the Recluse, also known as "Theophan Zatvornik" (Russian: Феофан Затворник), (1815-1894) is a well-known saint in the Russian Orthodox Church. He was born George Vasilievich Govorov, in the village of Chernavsk. His father was a Russian Orthodox priest. He was educated in the seminaries at Livny, Orel and Kiev. In 1841 he was ordained, became a monk, and adopted the name Theophan. He later became the Bishop of Tambov. - Innocent Of Alaska
Saint Innocent of Alaska (August 26, 1797, Irkutsk province, Russia - March 31, 1879) was a Russian Orthodox priest, bishop, archbishop and Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia. He is known for his missionary work, scholarship and leadership in Alaska and the Russian Far East during the 1800s. He is known for his great zeal for his work as well as his great abilities as a scholar, linguist and administrator. - Alexander Men
Father Alexander Men (20 January 1935 - 9 September 1990, also known as Aleksandr Men ru: Александр Мень, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Men) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, Biblical scholar and writer. Father Alexander wrote dozen of books (including his magnum opus Son of Man, … - Ignatius Brianchaninov
Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807-1867) is a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church. He was born Dimitri Alexandrovich Brianchaninov, to a wealthy landowning family. He was educated at Pioneer Military School in St. Petersburg. Although successful in his studies he was deeply unhappy there and turned to a life of prayer. In 1827 he fell seriously ill and left the army on this ground. - Silouan The Athonite
Saint Silouan, was born Simeon Ivanovich Antonov in 1866, of Russian Orthodox parents who came from the village of Sovsk in Russia's Tambov region. At the age of twenty-seven, after a period of military service, he left his native Russia and came to the monastic region of Greece called Mt. Athos where he became a monk at the Monastery of St. Panteleimon and was given the name " 'Silouan' ", (the Russian version of the Biblical name Silvanus.) An ardent ascetic, … - Nicholas Of Japan
Saint Nicholas, Equal-to-the-Apostles, Archbishop of Japan, Nikolai Kasatkin, born Ivan Dimitrovich Kasatkin (February 16, 1912) was a Russian Orthodox priest, monk, and saint. He introduced the Eastern Orthodox Church to Japan. The Orthodox cathedral of Tokyo (metropolitan diocese of Japan), Tokyo Resurrection Cathedral, was informally named after him as "Nikorai-do", first by the local community, and today nationwide, … - Dimitry Of Rostov
Saint Demetrius of Rostov was a leading opponent of the Caesaropapist reform of the Russian Orthodox church promoted by Feofan Prokopovich. He is representative of the strong Ukrainian influence upon the Russian Orthodox Church at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. Danylo Savvich Tuptalo was born into a Cossack's family in 1651 and entered the Kievo-Mohyla Academy at the age of 11. In 1669 he took his vows at St. - Leonid Feodorov
Leonid Ivanovich Feodorov (1879 - 1935) was a bishop and Exarch for the Russian Catholic Church, in addition to being a survivor of the GULAG. After painstaking investigation, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II on June 27 2001. - Nicolai Gedda
Nicolai Harry Gustav Gedda was born in Stockholm to a Swedish mother and a Russian father. His father, a distant relative of Peter Ustinov, sang bass in a Don Cossack choir and was cantor in a Russian Orthodox church. Gedda grew up bilingual and learned English, German, Italian, and Latin. Gedda began his professional career as a bank teller in a local bank in Stockholm. One day a wealthy client overheard him speaking about his desire to sing professionally, … - Basil Fool For Christ
Saint Basil or "Vasily" (known also as "Vasily Blazhenny", "Basil Fool for Christ", Basil the Blessed, Basil the Blessed, Wonderworker of Moscow, or Blessed Basil of Moscow, Fool for Christ;) is a Russian Orthodox saint of the type known as "yurodivy" or "holy fool for Christ". He was born to serfs in December of 1468 or 1469 in Yelokhovo, near Moscow (now in Moscow). - Sergei Kan
Sergei A. Kan is an American anthropologist known for his research with and writings on the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska, focusing on the potlatch and on the role of the Russian Orthodox church in Tlingit communities. Kan is of Russian Jewish origin and came to the U.S. in 1974. He did undergraduate studies at Boston University and received his master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago, … - Princess Olga Of Kiev
Saint Olga (also called "Olga Prekrasa" (Ольга Прекраса), or "Olga the Beauty", Old Norse: "Helga"; born c. 890 died July 11, 969, Kiev) was a Pskov woman of Varangian extraction who married the future Igor of Kiev, arguably in 903. The Primary Chronicle gives 879 as her date of birth, which is rather unlikely, given the fact that her only son was probably born some 65 years after that date. - Ekaterina Geladze
Ekaterina Geladze (familiarly known as "Keke") (1858-1937) was the mother of Joseph Stalin. She was born to a family of Georgian Orthodox Christian serfs in Gambareuli, Georgia, in 1858 and although her father, Glakh Geladze, died young and the family was always poor, somehow her mother ensured that Keke learned to read and write. Keke met and married Vissarion Jughashvili at the age of 16. - Nikolay Guryanov
Nikolay Guryanov, Nicholas Guryanov, (also Nikolai Alekseievich Gurianov,, May 26, 1909, Gdov district, St. Petersburg gubernia - August 24, 2002, Pskov region) - was a Russian Orthodox Christian myrrh-bearing starets and priest, a highly respected spiritual figure within the Orthodox church of recent times. Numerous miracles and healings are ascribed to him. - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (February 1, 1884 - March 10, 1937) was a Russian author, most famous for his 1921 novel "We", a story of dystopian future which influenced George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four", Ayn Rand's "Anthem", and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World". Zamyatin also wrote a number of short stories, in fairy tale form, … - Alexandr Baranov
Alexandr Andreevich Baranov, sometimes spelled Aleksander or Alexander and Baranof, was born in 1746 in Kargopol, in the Arkhangelsk province of Russia. Alexandr ran away from home at the age of fifteen. He became a successful merchant in Irkutsk, Siberia. He was lured to Russian Alaska, by the growing fur trade there. He became a successful trader there and established and managed trading posts in the Kodiak Island region. - Sampson Sievers
Sampson Sievers, born: Edward Sievers, names adopted after conversion: Sergius, when monk known first as Elder Symeon and after taking Great Schema as Elder Sampson (lang|ru|Старец Сампсон}]) (July 10 (Old Style June 27), 1900, Saint Petersburg, Russia - August 24, 1979, Moscow, Russia) - Russian Orthodox Christian elder, hieromonk, priest, confessor of Russian patriarch and higher clergy, … - Isidore Of Kiev
Isidore ; Ukrainian:Ісидор; died April 27 1463), a Greek by birth was Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia. After his death he became known among the anti-Roman Russian Orthodox clergy and grand princes as Isidore the Apostate, as he firmly promoted union with the Roman Catholic Church in exchange for military aid for Constantinople, which Russian rulers and most Russian Orthodox clergy condemned. - Semen Nadson
Semen Yakovlevich Nadson (also Semen Nadson, Semyon Nadson (born December 14, 1862 - died January 19, 1887) was a Russian poet. Nadson's father was a Jew who converted to the Greek Orthodox religion. His mother, Alexandra, was a Russian Orthodox. Despite publishing only one book of poems (he died of tuberculosis at age 24), he enjoyed a significant success, although underrated by critics for long time. - Andronic Nikolsky
Andronik (Nikolsky), also spelled Andronic, was a bishop in the Orthodox Church of Russia and a saint, glorified as Hieromartyr Andronik, Archbishop Of Perm in 2000. Archbishop Andronik was born Vladimir Nikolsky, on August 1, 1870, in Povodnevo, a village in Myshkin uyezd, Yaroslavl diocese. His father was a deacon. After he finished his studies at the Yaroslavl Seminary in 1891, he entered the Moscow Theological Academy. - George Gapon
Georgi Apollonovich Gapon was a Russian Orthodox priest and a popular working class leader before the Russian Revolution of 1905. - Alexei Trupp
Alexei Igorovich Trupp (1858 - July 16, 1918), was a footman in the household of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. He was killed with the Romanov family at Ekaterinburg following the Russian Revolution of 1917. Like the Romanovs and their other servants, Trupp was canonized as a martyr by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 1981 as a victim of Soviet oppression. Trupp himself was of the Roman Catholic faith and was not Russian Orthodox. - Varvara Yakovleva
Sister Varvara Yakovleva, also known as Sister Barbara Yakovleva, or simply Nun Barbara. (died July 18, 1918), was a Russian Orthodox nun in the convent of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna. She was killed by the Bolsheviks along with the grand duchess and Prince Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia, Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Prince Igor Konstantinovich of Russia, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia, Fyodor Remez, … - Paul Couturier
Paul Irénée Couturier was a French priest and a promoter of the concept of Christian unity. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. He was born and educated in educated at Lyon, France, to a family with some Jewish blood. He was raised in Algeria, among the largely Muslim population there, but later returned and was ordained to the priesthood in 1906 as a member of the Society of St. Irenaeus. - Xenia Of Saint Petersburg
Saint Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg is a patron saint of St. Petersburg. She was married to Colonel Andrey Fyodorovich Petrov, who served as a chanter at the Saint Andrew Cathedral. According to tradition the Holy Spirit led her to give away all her possessions to the poor after her husband died. Xenia became a "fool-for-Christ" and for 45 years wandered around the streets of St. Petersburg, usually wearing her late husband's military uniform. - Princess Helen Of Serbia
Princess Jelena of Serbia, later known as Princess Elena Petrovna of Russia, or sometimes Princess Helena Petrovna or Princess Helen Petrovna, or Princess Ellen Petrovna or Princess Hélène Petrovna, was the daughter of King Peter I of Yugoslavia and his wife Princess Zorka of Montenegro. She was the elder sister of George, Crown Prince of Serbia and Alexander I of Yugoslavia. - Joseph René Vilatte
Joseph René Vilatte was, at different times, a Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Russian Orthodox and Jacobite. He is best known, however, for his activities as an Old Catholic cleric. Vilatte was born in Paris to French parents hailing from the Maine region and who belonged to the "Petite Eglise", a sect formed by so-called rigorist Catholics angry with the Holy See and the dioceses for signing "or" accepting the Concordat of 1801, … - Cyril Pavlov
Cyril Pavlov, elder Cyril, Kirill Pavlov, elder Kyrill, in life: Ivan Dmitrievich Pavlov (born 1919, Kasimov, Ryazanskaya oblast, Russia) living Russian Orthodox Christian mystic, elder, wonder-worker and Archimandrite, confessor to Patriarch Alexy II. He was also confessor to the previous patriarchs Alexy I and Pimen. - Peter Of Krutitsy
St. Hieromartyr Peter of Krutitsy, born Petr Fyodorovich Polyansky (June 28, 1862 – September 27 O. S./October 10, 1937), was a Russian Orthodox bishop and martyr. From April 12 till December 9, 1925 he was the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, serving as Patriarch’s locum tenens. Despite his imprisonment, he was technically a locum tenens until his death in 1937. - Alexander Schmorell
Alexander Schmorell and then into the Wehrmacht (German Army during the Nazi era). In 1938, he took part in the annexation of Austria and eventually in the Wehrmacht invasion of Czechoslovakia. After his military service, the artistically gifted Alexander Schmorell began studies in medicine in 1939 in Hamburg. In the autumn of 1940, he went back with his student corps to Munich where he got to know Hans Scholl, and later Willi Graf. - Theodosius Of Kiev
Theodosius of Kiev is an 11th century saint who brought Cenobitic Monasticism to Kievan Rus' and, together with St Anthony of Kiev, founded the Kiev Pechersk Lavra (Kiev Monastery of the Caves). A biography of Theodosius was written in the twelfth century. His feast day is May 3. Saint Theodosius' greatest achievement has been the introducing of the rule of Saint Theodorus Studita in the lavra and later in all of Rus. - David Scheffel
David Z. Scheffel, Ph.D. is associate professor of anthropology at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Scheffel is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including "In the Shadow of Antichrist" (Broadview Press, 1991), a work on the Russian Orthodox breakaway Old Believers sect in Alberta. Scheffel was born February 5, 1955 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He migrated with his family to Austria in 1968, where his father, … - Olga Khokhlova
Olga Khokhlova,, (June 17, 1891, Nezhin, Russian Empire, now Ukraine – February 11, 1954, Cannes, France) was a Ukrainian-Russian dancer, but is better known as the first wife of Pablo Picasso, with whom she had a son, Paulo. Olga wanted to be a ballerina from the time she visited France and saw Madame Shroessont perform. She became a member of the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. On May 18, 1917 Olga danced in "Parade", … - Pavel Of Taganrog
The Blessed starets Saint Pavel of Taganrog ("Pavel Taganrogskiy",) dramatically influenced the belief in God and spiritual outlook of inhabitants of Taganrog, Don Land, South of Russia and Ukraine. A plain layman, who lived in Taganrog in the 19th century, he conciliated love and worship of Russian Orthodox Christians, who flowed to him for a piece of advice and spiritual support. Pavel Pavlovich Stoykov was born on November 21 (November 8th OS), … - Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (German: Louis Ferdinand Viktor Eduard Albert Michael Hubertus Prinz von Preussen) (November 9, 1907 - September 26, 1994), a member of the Hohenzollern family, was the pretender to the abolished German monarchy, opponent of the National Socialist German Workers Party in Germany, a business man, and patron of the arts. Louis Ferdinand was born as the third in succession to the throne over the German Empire, after his father, … - Hermogenes, Bishop Of Tobolsk And Siberia
Saint martyr Hermogenes, Bishop of Tobolsk and Siberia (born Georgiy Yefremovich Dolganyov (Георгий Ефремович Долганёв)) was a prominent Russian Orthodox religious figure. Influenced by Nicanor, Bishop of Kherson, he chose the Orthodox ministry after finishing the Novorossiysk University. Following his education in Saint Petersburg Theological Seminary in 1892, Dolganyov accepted the name Hermogenes. - Charlotte Christine Of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Charlotte Christine, daughter of Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was the wife of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia. On 25 October, 1711 at Torgau, Charlotte Christine married Tsarevich Alexei, son and heir of Peter I of Russia and his first wife Eudoxia Lopukhina. She allow to keep her Lutheran faith, but any children would be raised as Russian Orthodox. She gave birth to a daughter, Natalia, and a son, later Peter II of Russia. - Juliane Of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Juliane Henriette Ulrike, Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess in Saxony (b. Coburg, 23 September 1781 - d. Elfenau, near Berne, Switzerland, 15 August 1860), was a German princess of the ducal house of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (after 1826, the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha). She was the third daughter of Franz Frederick Anton, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf und Lobenstein. King Leopold I of Belgium was her younger brother, … - Kenneth Udut
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Mikhail Raslovlev was a Russian monarchist emigre who met Philip Graves and gave him a copy of Maurice Joly's book, "Dialogue aux Enfers entre Montesquieu et Machiavel", thereby demonstrating that the infamous "Protocols of Zion" was a forgery. At the time, Raslovlev was employed by the American Red Cross in the capital of Turkey, and Graves was a journalist, the Constantinople correspondent for "The Times" (London).
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