Isidore biography

Rasputin's friend, shot in Vyatka in the city of Chudinovsky, "The closest friend of Grigory Rasputin was shot in Vyatka." The article was dedicated to Bishop Isidor, a very interesting person close at the beginning of the 20th century. The publication of the Chudinovsky became largely sensational, as it was believed for a long time that Isidore was brutally killed by the Bolsheviks put on a stake in Samara.

However, E. Chudinovsky, through the introduction of new archival sources, proved that one of the most striking characters of the religious and per political environment of Russia in the beginning of the last century completed his life tragically in Vyatka. Moreover, his murder was not a single act of terror, but a link in a planned action of intimidation of Vyatka Chekists.

The first time this happened in the city in June of that year, he was exempted from the Office of the Omsk Pokrovsky dormitory monastery with the appointment of a whereabout in the Alexander Nevsky Filey Monastery of the Vyatka diocese. In December, Gosidor was moved to the Assumption Trifonov Monastery of the same diocese in which he lived for three years, and where the “case of Bishop Isidore” arose on a false denunciation.

As a result, in the city of Molb, Isidore was finally heard about justice, and thanks to the intercession of Metropolitan Pitirim Okan, Isidore was appointed rector of the Tyumen Holy Trinity Monastery. It was in Tyumen that Isidore met and became close to the famous G. Rasputin, who often visited the Tyumen monastery, as he was a peasant of the Tobolsk province. The influential Rasputin made a possible arrival of Bishop Isidore to Petrograd and brought him closer to Empress Alexandra Fedorovna, and through her and Emperor Nicholas II.

The Sovereign wrote to her wife: “She spent a wonderful evening with our friend [G. Rasputin] and Isidore. " And in another place: “He is incomparably higher than the Metropolitan [Pitirim] in spirit, with GR [Igoria] one continues that which begins the other - this bishop holds with GR [Igoria] with great respect. The beginning of the XX century reigned peaceful mood.

The picture of S. Lobovikov Isidor and Rasidutin really gradually became close, in a number of sources it is even indicated that they were best friends. So, in Oleg Platonov, “Life for the Tsar”, Bishop Isidore is called “The closest friend of Rasputin”, the security department is given, according to which the bishop met with Rasputin in the last months of his life 56 times.

Aron Simanovich, Secretary of Rasputin, in his memoirs tells how, in December, together with Bishop Isidore, they were looking for Grigory Rasputin throughout Petrograd, feeling that he was threatening the murder, as they went to the police station, to the palace of the Yusupov princes, suspecting the elder in Prince Yusupov. It was Bishop Isidor to the honor to fulfill the sad mission of the funeral service of the murdered as a result of the conspiracy on December 17, the same Simanovich wrote in his memoirs: “The body of Rasputin was taken to the Chesmensky chapel, which was on the road from St.

Petersburg to Tsarskoye Selo. Soon, the daughters and nieces of Rasputin arrived there, at the order of the queen, access to the chapel was prohibited. The daughters of Rasputin brought linen and dress with them. The body was washed and dressed. Bishop Isidor served a memorial service. We asked Metropolitan Pitirim about this, but he replied that Rasputin’s murder was too upset by Rasmeni in the Chesmensky chapel.

Rasputin with the empress, children and governess. The February Revolution of G. was also Bishop Isidor, since his friendship with Grigory Rasputin and Empress Alexandra Fedorovna was well known, and in the conditions of the revolution this was considered a sufficient accusation. Soon he is in Vyatka for the second time. Here he has been living since June "with the inability to go to the south about chronic inflammation of the lungs connected to asthma." In Vyatka, Isidore was engaged in charitable activities.

She clearly characterizes the petition of the Vyatka Brotherhood of the Blind, who, after the arrest of Isidore, petitioned for his release: “We testify that Bishop Isidore worked disinterestedly for the children of the Vyatka proletariat, and arranged a shelter for them. For us, the blind, with training and troubles, a place with six houses was bought, on the income from which we now live.

Before the holiday of Easter, he collected about two thousand rubles on the maintenance of our society, in addition, he cleared up three thousand rubles for our maintenance from Soviet power. We are deeply grateful to Bishop Isidor for his labors and concerns for the poor and blind, however, E. Chudinovsky, having analyzed the forensic case, found that there was no evidence of the guilt of Isidore and Flavian in him.

Isidore in his testimony indicated that he had never opposed the Bolsheviks, the decree on the separation of the church from the state greeted, he did not feel guilty.In a letter from the Vyatka prison to the Ural Regional Cheka, Isidore reported: “We held on the worldviews of the Communists Socialism with the equality of all on the basis that Christ had everything in common, no one called anything to their own and the believers did not have the right to belong to the political parties in our spiritual bathroom.

Being free from the diocesan service, we worked free of charge. We quite and unconditionally obey the authorities existing in Russia and accept to the immediate execution of its decrees and orders. Our arrest is a misunderstanding, and we ask us to free us and return to the benefit of the people to benefit. ” However, the fate of Isidore was decided, he was too famous, odious personality, and the employees of the Cheka knew very well about his ties with the royal family and friendship with Rasputin.

The Vyatka local historian D. Fetinin in the book “The Story of the Legendary Straydiv” wrote the following about the fate of Isidore: “Labazeniks, cabmen and other Black -Helled Subgen were grouped near Bishop Isidore, who found a refuge in the Fileysky monastery. Isidore was no less monarchist than the Romanovs - not without reason he was the closest friend of Grishka Rasputin.

" In this context, the memories of the participant in the establishment of Soviet power in Vyatka A. Trubinsky are curious: “... it is impossible to circumvent the activity of the bishop of Isidore in silence and the activities of the poor ... the bishop did not like to talk about Grishka Rasputin or the royal family, in such cases he was finished with the phrase:“ I don’t remember my head poorly and I can confuse the decision to the first time queue".

Isidore was shot, at the same time another 15 Vyatchan were killed. On the same day, Archpriest Mikhail Tikhonitsky was shot in the city of Orlov, Vyatka province without trial and investigation, which indicates a pre -planned action of the Chekists against the monarchists. Bishop Isidore was rehabilitated posthumously in the city of photo: ru.