Runkevich Nikolai Mikhailovich

Born in 1875 in the village of Gorbatsevichi, Bobruisk district, Minsk province, in the family of a psalm-reader of the Minsk diocese; Russian; graduated from the Pinsk Theological School, then the Minsk Theological Seminary in 1895, the St. Petersburg Theological Academy in 1900 and simultaneously completed a two-year course of study at the St. Petersburg Archaeological Institute. In 1900, he was accepted into service in the office of the Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod in addition to the staff, and was awarded the rank of collegiate secretary. In 1901 he was appointed teacher of biblical and general church history at the Kutaisi Theological Seminary. In 1902 he was appointed as a priest in the newly formed 5th Finnish Rifle Regiment, then served in the 7th Finnish Rifle Regiment. In 1906 - priest of the Vitebsk Nikolaev Military Church, on 13.10.1906 he was appointed the second priest of the Ilyinskaya Church of the Okhtensky Gunpowder Factory in St. Petersburg. Published in the "Bulletin of the Military Clergy". On 02.10.1914 he was appointed priest of the Church of St. Nicholas at the Baltic Mechanical and Shipbuilding Plant. In 1919 - priest at the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity of the Lesninsky Mother of God Convent in the Kholm Diocese, on the Chernaya Rechka. On 01.11.1929 he was arrested. On 05.02.1930 he was sentenced to 3 years of imprisonment. In custody in the Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp. After completing his imprisonment in 1934 - in exile in Alma-Ata, where he died under unknown circumstances.