Biography Nikolai Romanovsky

Nikolai Romanovsky, Holy Martyr Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanovsky was born in the city of Romanovsky graduated from the Odessa Theological Seminary, and in Nikolai s. Kasper-Nicolaevka Kherson district. Kasper-Nicolaevka and Novo-Birzulovka, and in the city of Nikolaev, in which he served for more than ten years, up to G. at the same time, the priest served as a law teacher in the Nikolaev Mariinsky female gymnasium before G.

simultaneously performed the duties of inspector of parish and Sunday schools. During the 1st World War, the priest organized a hospital for the wounded in the city of in-gg. Father Nikolai was loved and respected by parishioners, he was a wonderful preacher. The priest was a very famous and authoritative person in the city of this caused undisguised irritation from Soviet power structures, pursuing a consistent and aggressive policy aimed at eradicating religion.

Repeatedly the priest was called to the bodies of the NKVD and the GPU, where they “advised” and directly demanded to stop preaching activities, offered to go beyond the state. The house was searched, part of the property is confiscated. A special collegium of the Odessa regional court was convicted under Art. To serve his sentence, the priest was sent to Karlag Karaganda region.

The only way to facilitate the life of the prisoner remained letters, dates and transfer of products and things, which was occasionally permitted by the camp authorities. In anticipation of his death, in one of the last letters N. Romanovsky at the end of G. What can I tell you in my farewell message? I bow to you and apologize to you for the fact that although I have caused such a great grief in your way of your will.

I dreamed of something else, but the way of the Lord is inaccessible. Do not be sad, my angel, and now. Remember that the multi -mile -member producer gave us an invaluable treasure - our good children, and now you are the owner of this wealth alone, not to be sad about me, but rejoice that the Lord has committed me to perceive such a cross of torment. Without a murmur, I carry this cross with diligent prayer: punish here, Lord, and have mercy in eternity.

Do not grieve that maybe here we were separated until the end of our earthly wanderings, and pray to God that he will help me to be in eternity where you will be, my meek bright guardian angel. My sinfulness confuses me, but I believe that your prayer has more than once, apparently protecting me on Earth, will serve as my calmness in eternity. Remember me more often in your prayers, as now, during my suffering, so especially when my suffering will end away from dear, relatives.

Ask, if there is an opportunity for my burial in absentia. In your life, console your child’s child. If the forces allow you to live a little by all, so as not to be a burden to any of them. I am sure that our dear children will do everything possible to reassure your old age. I fiercely pray to the Almighty about yours and their well -being, I kiss you hotly, my dear.

Goodbye and forgive! Your selflessly loving buried Nikolai. ” In October, G. received an answer to the requests of relatives: "The prisoners were transferred to another camp, there is no information about them." One of the tasks of the group was the involvement of "renovationists" from among the prisoners of believers and clergy. " During interrogations, Archpriest Nikolai Romanovsky "did not agree with the accusations, did not plead guilty, although he did not deny the facts of participation in the meetings of former priests." The verdict is immediately executed.

The burial place is unknown. The children of N. Romanovsky continued to look for their missing father. After repeated requests in July Romanovsky on November 20, but this “official” information turned out to be false. Requests to the regional prosecutor’s office of Nikolaev were also unsuccessful. Meanwhile, according to the decision of the Presidium of the Karaganda Regional Court of November 28, Archpriest Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanovsky was posthumously rehabilitated.

Relatives of the priest were 35 years old in the ignorance of this decree. Only, at the beginning of the x. Memorial Days: Cathedral of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russian - the first resurrection, starting with