Vladimir Zhokha biography

Article from the Encyclopedia "Tree": Drevo-info. Vladimir Zhokov, year Vladimir Platonovich Zhokhov -, Metrophoric Archpriest was born on May 17 in the village of Chelmkhta Kholmogorsk district of the Arkhangelsk province. From the kind of hereditary nobles. In the year, the Zhokhov family moved to the village. The Chelmhta of the Arkhangelsk province from Rostov-on-Don, and after a while returned back.

In the year they arrived in Leningrad. In the year, his father was arrested and convicted of anti -Soviet activities, died in the year, in prison in Siberia. He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculptures and Architecture, studied with artist A. He worked as a designer-designer in the Lengorkino trust in Leningrad. At the same time, he served in one of the temples with a freelance mortgage.

In the year he was drafted into the army. In August, he was wounded and shell -shocked, demobilized with the disability of the second group. I decided to devote my life to the service of the church. From the year he lived in Arkhangelsk, where he held the post of mortgage and reader in the Ilyinsky Cathedral. In April, his relatives were evacuated from Leningrad to Arkhangelsk, with whom he moved to the village.

In the spring of the year he married and settled in Arkhangelsk again. He worked as an artist in the club of sailors, and on weekends he served in the cathedral. In the same year he left for his wife’s homeland in Vladimir, served as a hypodiacon in the Assumption Cathedral.

Together with Bishop Vladimir and Suzdal Onisim Festinatov, he was among the members of the Local Council on January 31 - February 2. In the same year he returned to Arkhangelsk. He served in Arkhangelsk in the area of ​​the island of Solombala. In March, he was sent for pastoral ministry to the Murmansk community, which existed without a temple, closed in it sought to unite believers, attracting the intelligentsia of the city into the community, collecting funds to help the families of dead fighters.

According to the memoirs of contemporaries, he always went in a cassock. In the year, he organized a fundraiser and acquired in Murmansk a plank building for a prayer house, to which three months later a bell tower was attached. For a trial-tier iconostasis, he was preserved and located in the Holy Trifon Church in Murmansk wrote icons. Leonty consecrated a prayer house in the name of St.

Nicholas the Wonderworker. In the year, a stone St. Nicholas Church was built at this place, consecrated on October 19. Since the year, his ministry took place in the city of Kotlas of the Arkhangelsk region, where he improved before that closed temple, and then in the village. In September, he was transferred to serve in the Kazan Temple of the village of Kochon now in the line of Syktyvkar.

In December, he turned to the authorities for permission to repair the temple and with a request to place the text of the prayer “Our Father”, a symbol of faith, the commandment of ten -word and bliss inside its walls. In the year, the archpriest was awarded to strengthen the position of the church in Syktyvkar. Thanks to his church and educational activities and an increase in the number of believers in the region in the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the dean of the 5th in the Arkhangelsk diocese was formed.

In the year, with his participation, the Church of the Ascension of the Lord in the village was opened. IB now ibb, prayer houses in with. Aikin and in the city, he offered to the chirotony of capable young people from among local residents and recommended them as priests in these prayer houses. In the year, he asked the authorities to extension to the temple "Tambour and utility room" and, having received it, began the construction of a chapel in the name of rights.

Procopius of the Ustyuzh miracle worker at the Kazan Church. In the same year, a criminal case was instituted against him for the "illegal acquisition of building materials for the Kazan Temple", soon it was closed. In the year in absentia he graduated from the Leningrad Theological Seminary. In the materials of the Report of the Commissioner, information has been preserved over the year that over the past 10 years, the revenues of the church where he served, increased by 7 times, the number of baptisms - 5 times, weddings - 11 times, the funeral service - the total number of confession increased from year to year.

Rochev noted that he repeatedly arranged many more allowed "twenties" of the meeting of the parish, organized the cash desk of mutual assistance, was engaged in charity. The personality and his activity attracted people to the temple where he served. According to the recollections of Syktyvkartsev, he was a very educated person, gathered a large library and was always in the center of cultural life of the city.

In the evenings, he improvised on the lute and performed numerous arias from the operas in the home circle. The soloists of the musical and drama theater, artists gathered in his house. As a combat officer, he communicated on equal terms with representatives of secular power. In the year, Rochev achieved deprivation of Zhokhov’s registration in Syktyvkar. For about a year, he traveled with his wife and children throughout the country in search of a place of service, but everywhere he was refused.

Voroshilova, who said that in his country there are no "stray" priests, and gave him paper: "Ghokhov priest to accept in any parish of the country." In the year with this paper, he was adopted by an archbishop. Sergius Larin in the Perm Diocese in the clergy of the Trinity Cathedral of the city of the year performed the duties of the Cluchery of the Council.In the year, due to illness, he went beyond the state, but on Sundays and holidays he helped the cathedral habit of worship.

According to contemporaries, he was a good preacher. In the year, to the competition for the best project of the Church of the Monk of Victory on Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow, he presented his drawing highly appreciated by the commission. In the year, at the request of Syktyvkartsev, this project participated in the competition for the best architectural decision of the Syktyvkar temple in the name of St.

Stefan Perm. For a year, he worked on the Bible Postcards cycle, placing his own comment under every number of a month with brief diary entries on the next head of the Bible - from the Book of Genesis to the Gospel of John. He also worked on the interpretation of the apocalypse. He was the main commentator of the Bible in the Baptist magazine "Bratsk Bulletin". In the family archive, his correspondence with many representatives of the intelligentsia of that time, his poems, literary study of the works of W.

Shakespeare, a unique collection of brands, has been preserved. After the death of his son, he, using the Holy Scriptures and the patristic heritage, wrote a work under the name "outside earthly being." He died on September 23. The funeral service took place in the Trinity Cathedral of Perm. Buried in the cemetery with. Ust-Kachka Perm region. The tombstone on the grave is made in the form of an angel figure.