Biography of Patriarch Gundyaev

The decree on the expulsion of V. Gundyaev in the city of Gundyaev, along with other, after the end of the conclusion, V. Gundyaev was sent to the exile from which he returned to the family, which went into the exponent. Extract about the conclusion of V. Gundyaev in ITL dated Dec 29. In the x Gundyaev continued church activities, making unsuccessful attempts to achieve the opening of the temple in his homeland.

During the interrogation in the NKVD on September 17, in these years, having already gone through numerous arrests, an imprisonment in the camp, V. Gundyaev began to prepare for the adoption of a sacred dignity. In the inventory of the property compiled during the detention of V. Gundyaev, in addition to the petitions to different bodies about the opening of the church in the expanded “notebooks with religious records - 2 pcs.

The arrest of V. Gundyaev followed on September 4, after his liberation from the camp, he was within the course. Shortly before the death of I. Stalin, on March 5, V. Gundyaev returned to the quarrel. Michael in Birsk Bashkiria; A year later, the Ufa and Sterlitamak b. Ilarion Prokhorov was ordained a priest and appointed rector of the Virgin-Kazansky c. Usa-Stepanovka is now the village of Blagoveshchensk district of Bashkiria.

In con. Vasily began to cast a blind and, with the blessing of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', Alexy I went beyond the state, returned to the exponent, where he died on October 31, Vasily Gundyaev with his wife Paraskeva Ivanovna in a cemetery in the village. The son of Vasily Stepanovich Mikhail studied at the initial Lukoyanovsky railway school, was a hypodiacon at the Lukoyanovsky EP.

Polikarpa Tikhonravov, probably before the city of Polikarp, was appointed to the Ardatovskoye Vicarism of the Simbirsk diocese. Gundyaev was an employee of the favorite b. Sergius Melnikov, who was sent to the cf. next year. Mikhail escaped his arrest and left for Leningrad, where in the city of Patriarch's father he studied to G. after 2 years of military service, he returned to Leningrad, entered a mechanical technical school, after which M.

Gundyaev entered the Leningrad Industrial Institute in the city of the same year. They met in the temple of the Kyiv courtyard, where both sang in an amateur choir. Belonging to the community of the Kyiv courtyard at that time was dangerous; The courtyard was under the close attention of the OGPU. The first arrests among the brethren and parishioners went to Aug. The community was preserved and, despite the huge risk, supported the arrested, sent parcels to camps and prisons.

Deputy Patriarchal Locumber Meter. Sergius Stragorodsky wrote in the city of difficult times in Mikhail expected to arrest; The fate of his father, etc. Patriarch so conveyed a family certificate of the arrest of M. Gundyaev in Dec. They went out, and the father, under the impression of this music, says: “You know, it seems to me that they will put me in jail.” Mom says: "How can you say that, we have a wedding in a few days." He says: "Throughout the concert, the feeling that they would arrest me." He led her home, then went to the house where he lived, and saw a car.

Then there were few cars in Leningrad, and he realized that it was behind him. He rose, and indeed, there were already representatives of the relevant service in his house. ”The Gospel and Freedom: the answers of Meter. Cyril to questions about. Jacquinf Redel and Jer. Alexandra Sinyakov; publ. During the arrest, M. Gundyaev was charged with the storage of training notes of theological courses, which the investigation considered “anti -Soviet literature”.

The investigator tried from Mikhail to achieve a self -cargo, but he held on steadfastly and denied all the accusations; The hardships and tests of previous years from his short, summer life prepared him for firm standing for faith. Not everyone had such an experience and was able to resist the hard pressure of the investigation: intimidated, summer boys brought to despair from the parish “confessed” the inconceivable and impracticable plan.

The Leningrad OGPU reported on the prevention of the murder of the leader; The young men signed the recognition of a long time. Gundyaev was convicted on February 25, Mikhail was released on the eve of Mikhail; He returned to Leningrad, married, began to work at the Leningrad enterprises Tokar, then a technician-technologist and, finally, the designer and head of the workshop.

During the years of the blockade of Leningrad, M. Gundyaev remained in the city, worked at the factory, built defensive fortifications, was hospitalized due to extreme exhaustion. Novgorod, where he was engaged in the acceptance of tanks T after the war M. Gundyaev returned to Leningrad to the plant, to his family. Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Cyril.

Prison photo. The short respite that the Soviet government gave the church in the post -war years allowed previously convicted under political articles to come to the church. Gundyaev filed a petition to the Leningradsky Met. Grigory Chukov about the ordination of the holy dignity.

Gregory, who himself passed through the execution, a long -term imprisonment, exiles, warned that he could not give the priest who had such a biography as M. Gundyaev: “If you really want to change your Leningrad apartment to accommodate at the most distant parish of the Leningrad Diocese, in the village of Petrova Gora, then I will be ordained you.But do not count on the ministry in the city of Leningrad.

So go and consult your wife. ” The family decided to move to the village. However, Metr. Gregory managed to bypass the obstacles on March 16, Gundyaev in the Holy San, appointing the Mother of God on the Vasilievsky Island to the temple of the Smolensk Icon. The temple was transferred to the church shortly before, after 6 years stood closed. Mikhail and Raisa was born daughter Elena, who devoted herself to, like brothers, she worked for many years to church service in Leningradskaya S.

Michael to the Transfiguration Cathedral, in the city of Mikhail became rector of the St. Nicholas Church on B. in parallel with the serving of Prot. Michael in the city at the age of 63, he defended his dissertation and became a candidate of theology. He died Oct.