Bellavin Vasily Ivanovich (Patriarch Tikhon)
Born 19 (31/01/1865) in the Klin churchyard, Toropetsk district, Pskov province, in the family of a rural priest. He studied at the Pskov Theological Seminary in 1878-1883. In 1888 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Theological Academy and was appointed to the Pskov Theological Seminary as a teacher. In 1891 he became a monk. He served in Warsaw (Poland) and Pennsylvania (USA). In 1907 he was recalled to Russia and served in the Yaroslavl diocese. A convinced monarchist, he became chairman of the Yaroslavl branch of the Union of Russian People. In 1913, due to contradictions with the governor, he was transferred by the Archbishop of Lithuania and Vilnius. In 1915, when Russian troops left Vilna, he moved to Moscow. Since November 21 (December 4). 1917 - Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, the first after the restoration of the patriarchate in Russia. He opposed the decree of the Soviet government on the separation of church and state, and was hostile to the conclusion of the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty. In his messages he called on believers to disobey Soviet power, anathematized it, and actively opposed the seizure of church valuables for the needs of the hungry. For counter-revolutionary activities in May 1922. prosecuted and placed under house arrest in the Donskoy Monastery. Died 04/07/1925. Canonized by the Russian Church as a saint by the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church on 10/09/1989.
Documents (9)
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Рождественский Измаил Васильевич
1. Article by O.P. Varenik “For the sake of faith you suffered even to the point of bloodshed...” published in the magazine “Vozvrashchenie” No. 11 for 1998, about Archpriest I.V. Rozhdestvensky, repressed in 1937.




Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Яцкевич Иван Викторович
2. Biographical information on Yatskevich V.I., written by Chebanov V.D. 02/17/2003.

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Тимофеев Лев Михайлович
4. Article by Timofeev L.M. “National Communists are reviving the ideology of hatred”, published in the newspaper Izvestia, 04/20/1993.

Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Сербаринов (Себаринов) Григорий Александрович
5. Memoirs of Serbarinov A.G. about father – Serbarinov G.A.
















Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Сербаринов (Себаринов) Григорий Александрович
7. A fragment from the story about Serbarinov G.A., dedicated to the renovation movement.
Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Журавский Яков Львович
7. A short biography of priest Jacob Zhuravsky, compiled by his grandson Gleb R.B. in 2014







Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Солженицын Александр Исаевич
45. Article by Solzhenitsyn A.I. “How can we organize Russia”, reprinted from Komsomolskaya Pravda on September 18, 1990 by the newspaper “Evening Leningrad”

Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Журавский Андрей Митрофанович
45. Autobiographical sketch of Chebanov V.D. with memories of the siege of Leningrad and about his work studying the life and work of Zhuravsky’s cousin A.M., written on 04/21/2014.




Fund 016 / Inventory 2 / Case 2
52. Letter from the Kherson Regional Office of the Security Service of Ukraine No. 10/9500fs dated 01/23/1997 (response to No. 269 dated 10/18/1996) to the Central State Administration of St. Petersburg about the available information on V.V. Krasnovsky. (Bishop Gabriel).

