Alexander Nikolsky Archpriest Biography

Article from the Encyclopedia "Tree": Drevo-info. The younger brother of the holy martyr John Nikolsky, a priest of the Transfiguration of the Karpov Church. He married Iraid Ivanovna, they had seven children: six daughters and a son. Before the revolution, the son studied at the Nizhny Novgorod Seminary. In the year, Alexander Nikolaevich graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Theological Seminary according to the first category and was determined to the priestly place in the village of Stepanovo, Arzamas district.

Along with pastoral services, he acted as a law teacher in parish and zemstvo schools, which were in the parish village of Bundakovo. In the year, he was moved to the Znamenskaya Church in the village of Kechasovo, Sergach district, where he was also not only the rector in the temple, but also the head and teacher at the local church -Proper school. In the year he was appointed to the post of investigator in the spiritual department, and two years later he was chosen as a dean in the second district of the Sergach district.

From the year he served as a county observer for parish schools, at the same time being a member of the school council and trusteeship of folk sobriety, a deputy of the district zemstvo meetings. From the year he taught the Law of God at the Yekaterininsky Zemstvo School, which was located in Arzamas. In the year, on the personal petition, he was moved to the Nizhny Novgorod Varvarinsky Church as a second priest.

A year later, he again entrusted the duties in the spiritual department: the position of investigator of the parish churches of Nizhny Novgorod and membership in the board of the Sergiev Male School. Was erected to the rank of Archpriest. Since the year, after the nationalization by the authorities of the House of Cales of the Barbarian Temple, about. Alexander Nikolsky and rector Archpriest Evgeny Yakovlev rented an apartment together.

On the night of August 7, Father Alexander was arrested and imprisoned in a special corps of the Gorky prison. At the same time, many other clergymen of the Nizhny Novgorod temples were arrested. The accusation brought to his father Alexander and other shepherds was standard: a participant in the church-fascist underground terrorist group led by Metropolitan Feofan Tulyakov.

Only three weeks after the arrest, on September 2, the only interrogation of the elderly father Alexander took place. Tell me, who is your organization and what organizational measures were organized to fight. I do not know any organizational measures of the organization you named. In the year, Metropolitan Theophanes served in our church 6 times, and 4 times a year.

For service in our church, the Metropolitan was invited by the headman Kharitonov Alexander Ivanovna. The invitation was through Kharitonov on behalf of the Church Council. Feofan appointed the last three services in our church personally. If so, where and who was present at this treat. In addition, Metropolitan Theophanes dedicated us to his stationery, which cluttered him.

He, as a spiritual chief, is represented by the right to analyze all sorts of violations committed by clergymen. Shot on October 4, one day with his brother, holy martyr John Nikolsky. In the biography on the website of the Nizhny Novgorod Metropolitan Prot. Alexander Nikolsky is called a holy martyr on the day of memory of October 4, but there was no confirmation of information about its canonization.

In the official calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church, his memory is absent. The confusion is likely with the namesake of the holy martyr Alexander Semenovich Nikolsky -, on September 4.

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