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Biography

First decades of life

Born on January 30, 1949 in the village of Shtalovka, Voronezh (now Belgorod) region in the family of a teacher, his mother came from an Old Believer family.

He spent his childhood in the city of Severomorsk, Murmansk region.

After the family moved to Kyiv in 1961, secretly from his parents, at night, in a private house, he was baptized by priest Alexei Glagolev, known for hiding Jews during the years of Nazi occupation.

After graduating from high school in 1966, he served in the Soviet army.

Study and work in Leningrad

In 1970 he entered the Leningrad Theological Seminary, and then from 1973-1976 he studied at the Leningrad Theological Academy, studying at the same time in the regency class. He practiced singing a lot and often visited the rehearsal hall of the Academic Chapel named after. Glinka. He became close to an informal circle of avant-garde artists, which included artists Sergei Spitsyn and Tatyana Glebova, who highly valued his musical talent[2]. He attended exhibitions organized by T. N. Glebova in her workshop (which was considered dangerous in those days).

On April 5, 1977, Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) of Leningrad and Novgorod was tonsured a monk with the name Jonathan

. On April 16, the same hierarch ordained him to the rank of hierodeacon.

In 1978, Bishop Kirill (Gundyaev) of Vyborg, rector of the Leningrad Theological Academy, ordained him a hieromonk.

He graduated from the Academy with a candidate's degree in theology and was retained as a professor's fellow. For several years he taught church singing at the Seminary and in the regency class, and also served as the regent of the choir of the Leningrad Theological Schools. In 1986, this choir, under his direction, recorded a gramophone record, where Jonathan’s original works were voiced for the first time).

In December 1986, he was summoned to the KGB in connection with the distribution of the book “The Gulag Archipelago” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn among seminarians and was then deprived of his temporary Leningrad registration. For a year I could not find a new place of ministry due to the obstacles caused by the KGB.

Activities in Ukraine

From the spring of 1987 to June 1988 - cleric of the Kyiv Vladimir Cathedral.

In June 1988, he became a resident of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, part of the premises of which was returned to the Church in connection with the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus'.

On July 23, 1988, he was appointed acting governor of the Lavra.

On October 11, 1988, Patriarch Pimen elevated him to the rank of archimandrite and on October 12, he was confirmed as the vicar of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra with the blessing of Patriarch Pimen by decree of Metropolitan Philaret (Denisenko) of Kyiv and Galicia.

By the resolution of Patriarch Pimen and the Holy Synod of April 10, 1989, he was determined to be Bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky, vicar of the Kyiv diocese.

On April 23, 1989, in the Vladimir Cathedral of Kyiv, he was consecrated bishop by a host of bishops led by Metropolitan Philaret (Denisenko).

In 1990, he was appointed manager of the affairs of the Ukrainian Exarchate.

He became in strong opposition to Metropolitan Philaret (Denisenko) of Kyiv, actively opposing his course of separation from the Moscow Patriarchate. By a resolution of the Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of April 23, 1991, he was banned from the priesthood for a period of 3 years. From 1991 to 1992 he was without a place of ministry.

On June 3, 1991, he submitted a report-appeal to Patriarch Alexy II, in which he rejected the accusations against himself and, in turn, brought charges against Metropolitan Philaret (Denisenko). In September 1991, at a meeting of the Synod of the UOC-MP chaired by Metropolitan Philaret, he was defrocked “for unrepentance.”

In April 1992, he created the “Committee of Clergy and Laity in Defense of Orthodoxy” in Kyiv.

After the election of Metropolitan Vladimir (Sabodan) as Primate of the UOC-MP, by decision of the Holy Synod, the UOC-MP was reinstated in all positions and appointed manager of the affairs of the UOC-MP.

Since December 1992 - Bishop of Belotserkovsky, vicar of the Kyiv diocese.

From June 22, 1993 to July 2000 - again the manager of the affairs of the UOC (MP), permanent member and secretary of the Holy Synod of the UOC (MP).

Since December 29, 1993 - Bishop of Glukhov and Konotop.

On July 28, 1994, the Primate of the UOC (MP), Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Vladimir (Sabodan), awarded the rank of archbishop.

Since August 27, 1995 - Archbishop of Sumy and Akhtyrsky.

Since April 1999 - Archbishop of Kherson and Tauride.

Since November 22, 2006 - Archbishop of Tulchin and Bratslav.

On August 28, 2014, in the Assumption Cathedral of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Onufriy (Berezovsky) of Kyiv and All Ukraine was elevated to the rank of metropolitan[3].

Russian Orthodox Church

Born on January 30, 1949 in the village. Shatalovka, Voronezh (now Belgorod) region. in the family of a teacher.

In 1966 he graduated from high school. After serving in the ranks of the Soviet Army, he entered the Leningrad Theological Seminary in 1970, and then in 1972-1976. studied at the Leningrad Theological Academy, studying at the same time in the regency class at LDAiS.

In 1976 he was tonsured a monk. In the same year, Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) of Leningrad and Novgorod ordained him a hierodeacon, and in 1978, Archbishop Kirill of Vyborg (now the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus') - a hieromonk.

He graduated from the academy with a candidate's degree in theology and was retained as a professor's fellow. For several years he taught church singing at the seminary and in the choir class, and also served as the choir director of the Leningrad theological schools.

Accused by the KGB of distributing the book “The Gulag Archipelago” by A. Solzhenitsyn among seminarians and deprived of temporary Leningrad registration. For a year I could not find a new place of ministry due to the obstacles caused by the KGB.

From the spring of 1987 to June 1988 - cleric of the Vladimir Cathedral in Kyiv.

Since June 1988 - resident of the revived Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, since July 23, 1988 - acting. Governor of the Lavra.

On October 11, 1988, by decree of His Holiness Patriarch Pimen, he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite.

On October 12, 1988, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Pimen, by decree of Metropolitan of Kyiv and Galicia Philaret, he was confirmed in the position of vicar of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

By the decision of the Holy Synod of April 10, 1989, he was elected Bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky, vicar of the Kyiv diocese.

Named on April 22, 1989 after an all-night vigil in St. Vladimir Cathedral in Kyiv. The service was performed by Metropolitans of Kiev and Galicia Filaret, Lviv and Drohobych Nikodim, Archbishops of Chernihiv and Nizhyn Anthony, Kharkov and Bogodukhov Iriney, Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyia Macarius.

On April 23, 1989, on the feast of the Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem, he was consecrated Bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky during the Divine Liturgy in the Vladimir Cathedral. The service was performed by the bishops who participated in the naming.

In 1990 he was appointed manager of the affairs of the Ukrainian Exarchate.

Metropolitan stood up in harsh opposition. Filaret (Denisenko), actively opposing his separatist course; April 23, 1991 Met. Filaret (Denisenko, later anathematized) was tried in absentia on the basis of false testimony and banned from the priesthood. August 25, 1992, after the deposition of Metropolitan. Philaret by the Kharkov Council of Bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Holy Synod of the UOC recognized the non-canonical nature of the ban against Bishop. Jonathan.

In April 1992, he created the “Committee of Clergy and Laity in Defense of Orthodoxy.” After the election of Metropolitan Vladimir (Sabodan), he was restored to all positions and appointed manager of the affairs of the UOC.

Since 1992 - Bishop of Belotserkovsky, vicar of the Kyiv diocese.

From June 22, 1993 to July 2000 - manager of the affairs of the UOC, permanent member and secretary of the Holy Synod of the UOC.

Since December 29, 1993 - Bishop of Glukhov and Konotop.

On July 28, 1994, he was elevated to the rank of archbishop.

From August 27, 1995 - Archbishop of Sumy and Akhtyrsky, from April 1999 - Archbishop of Kherson and Tauride.

On November 22, 2006, by a resolution of the Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, he was released from the administration of the Kherson diocese and appointed Archbishop of Tulchin and Bratslav.

On August 28, 2014, during the Liturgy in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, His Beatitude Onuphry, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, elevated him to the rank of metropolitan.

Name day on Forefather Week.

Creation

Archbishop Jonathan is the author of church compositions and transcriptions of spiritual hymns, included in the collections “Christ is Born” (1993), “State Antiphons of Matins” (1994) and “Orthodox Church Choirs” (1995). Some of the compositions and transcriptions were recorded on the CD “Traditional and new hymns of the Orthodox Church”, where a solo

the living voice of the author and conductor (“God is with us” of the Solovetsky chant, “Body of Christ” of the Znamenny chant, “Praise the name of the Lord” of the Valaam chant). Some other spiritual and musical compositions of Archbishop Jonathan were published and recorded on CDs by various choirs: “The Powerful Antiphons of the Ancients”, “Thy Chamber” (C minor), “Flesh Asleep” (A minor), “Now the Powers of Heaven” , Valaam chant, “God is with us,” Solovetsky chant, (G minor), “Open the doors of repentance” zn.r. (B-flat major), “My Soul Magnifies the Lord” (D minor), etc. He published a CD with a sound recording of the author’s “Liturgy of Peace,” in which the hymns of the Orthodox Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom were sung to the tune of Gregorian chant.

Archbishop Jonathan is the author of a number of articles that were published in the church press in Ukraine and abroad. In 2003, the archbishop completed five years of work on freely translating into Russian the extensive spiritual poem of the 7th century - the Great Canon of St. Andrei Kritsky, published by the publishing house of Kherson State University with the assistance of its rector Professor Yu. I. Belyaev.

In 2004, the publishing house of Kherson State University released a collection of music by Archbishop Jonathan “Hosanna,” which included his spiritual and musical arrangements, original compositions, patriotic hymns and poems, and in 2005, expanded and corrected by the author, the second edition of this collection under the name “We Sing to You” "in two volumes, including little-known choral concerts by V. Fateev, a student of Rimsky-Korsakov.

The same university publishing house published the popular “Explanatory Guide to the Prayer Books of the Divine Liturgy of Saints John Chrysostom and Basil the Great”

with experience in presenting prayers and litanies of the Liturgy in Russian and Ukrainian, with an extensive and understandable historical and theological commentary and a number of Eucharistological articles by famous theologians and liturgical scholars: Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev) of Volokolamsk, Hieromonk Michael Arrantz, Archimandrite Robert Taft, etc. (Revised original online edition of 2014 www.vladyka-ionafan.ru/liturgy).

Creativity[edit]

Archbishop Jonathan is the author of church compositions and transcriptions of spiritual hymns, included in the collections “Christ is Born” (1993), “State Antiphons of Matins” (1994) and “Orthodox Church Choirs” (1995). Some of the compositions and transcriptions were recorded on the CD “Traditional and new hymns of the Orthodox Church.” Some other spiritual and musical compositions of Archbishop Jonathan were also published and recorded on CDs: “The Powerful Antiphons of the Ancients” (E minor), “Thy Chamber” (C minor), “The Flesh Asleep” (A minor), “Now the Power heavenly”, Valaam chant, “God is with us”, Solovetsky chant, (G minor), “Open the doors of repentance” zn.r. (B-flat major), “My soul magnifies the Lord” (D minor), etc. Jonathan released a CD with a sound recording of his “Liturgy of Peace,” in which the hymns of the Orthodox Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom were sung to the tune of Gregorian chant.

The musical research activities of Archbishop Jonathan are complemented by the search for little-known spiritual works of the post-revolutionary period and Ukrainian monodies of the 16th-14th centuries, the purpose of which is to preserve the spiritual heritage of Orthodox culture.

The scientific and literary activity of Archbishop Jonathan is represented by a candidate's dissertation, which traces the life and work of the Byzantine champion of Orthodox icon veneration of the 9th century, Ven. Theodore the Studite, poems on religious themes. He is the author of a number of articles that were published in the church press in Ukraine and abroad.

In 2003, the archbishop completed a five-year work of translating into Russian the extensive spiritual poem of the 7th century - the Penitential Great Canon of St. Andrey Kritsky. The canon was published by the publishing house of Kherson State University with the assistance of the rector, Professor Yu. I. Belyaev.

In 2004, the publishing house of Kherson State University released an extensive collection of sheet music “Hosanna,” which included his spiritual and musical arrangements, original compositions, patriotic hymns and poems, and in 2005, an expanded and corrected edition of this collection by the author, entitled “We Sing to You” in two volumes including little-known choral concerts by V. Fateev, a student of Rimsky-Korsakov.

The same publishing house published the “Explanatory Guide to the Prayer Books of the Divine Liturgy of Saints John Chrysostom and Basil the Great” with experience in presenting the prayer books of the Liturgy in Russian and Ukrainian, with a large historical and theological commentary and a number of Eucharistic articles by famous theologians.

Awards

Church

ROC

• Order of St. Prince Vladimir II degree www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/545904.html, photo www.nne.ru/gallery.php?pr=926, www.vladyka-ionafan.ru/biography - “in consideration of the works and connection with the 60th anniversary"
• Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, II degree
• Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, II degree (2004) - for great services to the Orthodox Church and in connection with the 55th anniversary of his birth
  [4]
• Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov, II degree (2014) - in recognition of the diligent archpastoral labors and in connection with the 65th anniversary of his birth and the 25th anniversary of his episcopal consecration
  [5]
• In February 2013, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill was awarded a commemorative anniversary medal in memory of the 200th anniversary of the Russian victory over the French in the Patriotic War of 1812.

UOC

• Order of Saints Anthony and Theodosius of Pechersk, 1st degree
• Order of the Holy Apostle John the Theologian, 2nd degree (March 25, 2009) - in recognition of church merits and in connection with the 60th anniversary
  [6]
• Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called (October 26, 2014) - in recognition of church merits and in connection with the 65th anniversary

Other local churches

• Medal of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark (Jerusalem Orthodox Church)

Secular

• Order of Merit, III degree (Ukraine; February 27, 2012).[7].
• Order of Friendship (Russia; August 3, 2009) - for his great contribution to the development of cooperation between the Russian Federation and Ukraine
  [8].

* Order of St. Anna, II degree “in reward of services to the Fatherland and the Russian Orthodox Church and as evidence of Our special favor.” K: Wikipedia: Articles without sources (type: not specified) [ source not specified 1983 days

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Awards[edit]

• Order of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Mark (from the Jerusalem Orthodox Church)
• Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, II degree (from the Russian Orthodox Church)
• Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, II degree (from the Russian Orthodox Church)
• Order of Saints Anthony and Theodosius of Pechersk, 1st degree (from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church).
• Order of Saint Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, II degree: awarded on January 31, 2009 by Metropolitan Kirill (Gundyaev), elected and named Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', “in consideration of his works and in connection with the 60th anniversary”
• Order of the Holy Apostle John the Theologian (UOC) 2nd degree: awarded on March 25, 2009 by Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Vladimir “in consideration of church merits and in connection with the 60th anniversary”

Notes

1. Nowadays it is part of the Stary Oskol urban district, Belgorod region.
2. See Tatyana Glebova. Letter to Bishop Kirill (Gundyaev). Two letters from Fr. Jonathan (1984). / Experiment/Experiment: Journal of Russian Culture. No. 16: Sixteen Fridays: The second wave of the Leningrad avant-garde. The publication was prepared by Elena Spitsyna: In 2 parts. LA (USA), 2010. Part 2. pp. 477-478. See also: “I found a source of inspiration in the spiritual giftedness and musical talent of Fr. Jonathan. It’s amazing how great his innovative power is, enclosed in the church canon of the highest spirit...” / Tatyana Glebova. From the diary (1973-1985). Ibid., p. 431.
3. [www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/3710946.html Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev celebrated the Liturgy in the Assumption Cathedral of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra and elevated a number of hierarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to the rank of archbishop and metropolitan]. // Patriarchia.Ru
4. [mospat.ru/archive/6368.html His Holiness Patriarch Alexy awarded Archbishop Jonathan of Kherson and Tauride with the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh]
5. [www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/3860970.html On the day of remembrance of St. Philaret of Moscow, the Primate of the Russian Church celebrated the Liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and led the consecration of Archimandrite Paul (Timofeenkov) as Bishop of Molodechno and Stolbtsovsky]
6. [orthodox.org.ua/uk/aktualne/2009/03/25/4711.html The final meeting of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was held] (inaccessible link from 05/11/2013 (2996 days))
7. [www.president.gov.ua/ru/documents/14546.html Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 155/2012 “On awarding state awards of Ukraine to employees of enterprises, institutions and organizations of the Vinnytsia region”]
8. [graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?1022398 Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of August 3, 2009 No. 902 “On awarding the Order of Friendship to Archbishop Jonathan of Tulchin and Bratslav (Eletskikh A.I.)”]

Biography[edit]

Born on January 30, 1949 in the village of Shtalovka, Voronezh (now Belgorod) region in the family of a teacher. The paternal family, according to family legend, traced itself to the governor Fyodor Ivanovich Krivoy, Prince Yeletsky, who belonged to the Chernigov branch of the Rurikovichs and was one of the military leaders during the Battle of Kulikovo; mother came from an Old Believer family.

He spent his childhood in the city of Severomorsk, Murmansk region.

In 1961, the family moved to Kyiv, where, secretly from their parents, at night, in a private house, they were baptized by priest Alexei Glagolev, known for hiding Jews during the years of Nazi occupation.

After graduating from high school in 1966, he served in the Soviet army.

In 1970, Anatoly Yeletskikh entered the Leningrad Theological Seminary, and then in 1973-1976. studied at the Leningrad Theological Academy, studying at the same time in the regency class. The young seminarian does a lot of singing and often visits the rehearsal hall of the Academic Chapel named after. Glinka. He becomes close to the informal circle of avant-garde artists (Tatyana Glebova, Valentina Solovyova, etc.). He attends private exhibitions of their paintings, which was considered dangerous in those days. He was accused by the KGB of distributing the book “The Gulag Archipelago” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn among seminarians and was deprived of his temporary Leningrad registration. For a year I could not find a new place of ministry due to the obstacles caused by the KGB.

In 1976, Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) of Leningrad and Novgorod tonsured him into monasticism with the name Jonathan; ordained to the rank of hierodeacon.

In 1978, Bishop Kirill (Gundyaev) of Vyborg, rector of the Leningrad Theological Academy, ordained him a hieromonk.

He graduated from the Academy with a candidate's degree in theology and was retained as a professor's fellow. For several years he taught church singing at the Seminary and in the regency class, and also served as the regent of the choir of the Leningrad Theological Schools. In 1986, this choir, under his direction, recorded a gramophone record, where Jonathan’s original works were voiced for the first time.

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  At rest	Vasily (Zlatolinsky) · Gury (Kuzmenko) · Dionysius (Konstantinov) · Innokenty (Shestopal) · Ioannikiy (Kobzev) · Hippolytus (Khilko) · Niphont (Maloduha) · Panteleimon (Romanovsky)
  Former bishops *
  Translated	Anthony (Moskalenko) · Gleb (Savin) · Job (Smakouz) · Job (Tyvonyuk) · Nektary (Frolov)
  Defrocked	Filaret (Denisenko) · Andrey (Gorak) · Jacob (Panchuk)
  Deceased	Anthony (Vakarik) · Vasily (Vasiltsev) · Vladimir (Sabodan) · Evfimy (Shutak) · Kronid (Mishchenko) · Leonty (Gudimov) · Macarius (Svistun) · Methodius (Petrovtsy) · Nikanor (Yukhimyuk) · Nikodim (Rusnak) · Savva (Babinets) · Sevastian (Pilipchuk) · Tikhon (Zhilyakov) · Feodosius (Dikun)
  Since the transformation of the Ukrainian Exarchate of the Moscow Patriarchate into the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in October 1990.

Links[edit]

• Official page of Archbishop Jonathan
• Jonathan (Eletskikh) on Wikipedia
• Jonathan (Eletskikh) On the Russian Orthodoxy
• Archbishop Jonathan On the Ukraine Orthodox
• Archbishop Jonathan (Eletsky) in the Yakov Krotov Library
• Sacred music of Archbishop Jonathan on iKliros (sheet music)

Excerpt characterizing Jonathan (Eletsky)

Wolzogen wanted to object, but Kutuzov interrupted him. - The enemy is repulsed on the left and defeated on the right flank. If you have not seen well, dear sir, then do not allow yourself to say what you do not know. Please go to General Barclay and convey to him the next day my absolute intention to attack the enemy,” Kutuzov said sternly. Everyone was silent, and all that could be heard was the heavy breathing of the out of breath old general. “They were repulsed everywhere, for which I thank God and our brave army.” The enemy has been defeated, and tomorrow we will drive him out of the sacred Russian land,” said Kutuzov, crossing himself; and suddenly sobbed from the tears that came. Wolzogen, shrugging his shoulders and pursing his lips, silently walked away to the side, wondering uber diese Eingenommenheit des alten Herrn. [at this tyranny of the old gentleman. (German)] “Yes, here he is, my hero,” said Kutuzov to the plump, handsome, black-haired general, who was entering the mound at that time. It was Raevsky, who spent the whole day at the main point of the Borodino field. Raevsky reported that the troops were firmly in their places and that the French did not dare to attack anymore. After listening to him, Kutuzov said in French: “Vous ne pensez donc pas comme lesautres que nous sommes obliges de nous retirer?” [You, therefore, don’t think, like others, that we should retreat?] “Au contraire, votre altesse, dans les affaires indecises c’est loujours le plus opiniatre qui reste victorieux,” answered Raevsky, “et mon opinion... [ On the contrary, your lordship, in indecisive matters the winner is the one who is more stubborn, and my opinion...] - Kaisarov! – Kutuzov shouted to his adjutant. - Sit down and write an order for tomorrow. “And you,” he turned to the other, “go along the line and announce that tomorrow we will attack.” While the conversation was going on with Raevsky and the order was being dictated, Wolzogen returned from Barclay and reported that General Barclay de Tolly would like to have written confirmation of the order that the field marshal gave. Kutuzov, without looking at Wolzogen, ordered this order to be written, which the former commander-in-chief, very thoroughly, in order to avoid personal responsibility, wanted to have. And through an indefinable, mysterious connection that maintains the same mood throughout the entire army, called the spirit of the army and constituting the main nerve of the war, Kutuzov’s words, his order for battle for the next day, were transmitted simultaneously to all ends of the army. It was not the very words, not the very order that was transmitted in the last chain of this connection. There was not even anything similar in those stories that were passed on to each other at different ends of the army to what Kutuzov said; but the meaning of his words was communicated everywhere, because what Kutuzov said stemmed not from cunning considerations, but from a feeling that lay in the soul of the commander-in-chief, as well as in the soul of every Russian person. And having learned that the next day we would attack the enemy, from the highest spheres of the army, having heard confirmation of what they wanted to believe, the exhausted, hesitant people were consoled and encouraged. Prince Andrei's regiment was in reserves, which until the second hour stood behind Semenovsky inactive, under heavy artillery fire. In the second hour, the regiment, which had already lost more than two hundred people, was moved forward to a trampled oat field, to that gap between Semenovsky and the Kurgan battery, where thousands of people were killed that day and on which, in the second hour of the day, intensely concentrated fire was directed from several hundred enemy guns. Without leaving this place and without firing a single charge, the regiment lost another third of its people here. In front and especially on the right side, in the continuous smoke, cannons boomed and from a mysterious area of ​​smoke that covered the entire area ahead, cannonballs and slowly whistling grenades flew out, without ceasing, with a hissing rapid whistle. Sometimes, as if giving rest, a quarter of an hour passed, during which all the cannonballs and grenades flew over, but sometimes within a minute several people were torn out of the regiment, and the dead were constantly dragged away and the wounded were carried away. With each new blow, fewer and fewer chances of life remained for those who had not yet been killed. The regiment stood in battalion columns at a distance of three hundred paces, but despite this, all the people of the regiment were under the influence of the same mood. All the people of the regiment were equally silent and gloomy. Rarely was a conversation heard between the rows, but this conversation fell silent every time a blow was heard and a cry: “Stretcher!” Most of the time, the people of the regiment, by order of their superiors, sat on the ground. Some, having taken off their shako, carefully unraveled and reassembled the assemblies; who used dry clay, spreading it in his palms, and polished his bayonet; who kneaded the belt and tightened the buckle of the sling; who carefully straightened and refolded the hems and changed his shoes. Some built houses from Kalmyk arable land or wove wickerwork from stubble straw. Everyone seemed quite immersed in these activities. When people were wounded and killed, when the stretchers were being pulled, when our people were returning, when large masses of enemies were visible through the smoke, no one paid any attention to these circumstances. When the artillery and cavalry passed forward, the movements of our infantry were visible, approving remarks were heard from all sides. But the events that deserved the most attention were completely extraneous events that had nothing to do with the battle. It was as if the attention of these morally tormented people rested on these ordinary, everyday events. An artillery battery passed in front of the regiment's front. In one of the artillery boxes, the tie-down line came into place. “Hey, the tie-down!.. Straighten it! It will fall... Eh, they can’t see it!.. - they shouted from the ranks equally throughout the entire regiment. Another time, everyone’s attention was drawn to a small brown dog with a firmly raised tail, which, God knows where it came from, ran out in front of the ranks at an anxious trot and suddenly squealed from a cannonball striking close and, with its tail between its legs, rushed to the side. Cackling and squeals were heard throughout the regiment. But this kind of entertainment lasted for minutes, and people had been standing for more than eight hours without food and without anything to do under the persistent horror of death, and their pale and frowning faces became increasingly pale and frowning. Prince Andrei, just like all the people of the regiment, frowning and pale, walked back and forth across the meadow near the oat field from one boundary to another, with his hands behind him and his head down. There was nothing for him to do or order. Everything happened by itself. The dead were dragged behind the front, the wounded were carried, the ranks closed. If the soldiers ran away, they immediately returned hastily. At first, Prince Andrei, considering it his duty to arouse the courage of the soldiers and show them an example, walked along the ranks; but then he became convinced that he had nothing and nothing to teach them. All the strength of his soul, just like that of every soldier, was unconsciously directed to restrain himself from contemplating the horror of the situation in which they were. He walked through the meadow, dragging his feet, scratching the grass and observing the dust that covered his boots; either he walked with long strides, trying to follow the tracks left by mowers across the meadow, then he, counting his steps, made calculations of how many times he must walk from boundary to boundary to make a mile, then he purged the wormwood flowers growing on the boundary, and I rubbed these flowers in my palms and sniffed the fragrant, bitter, strong smell. From all yesterday's work of thought there was nothing left. He didn't think about anything. He listened with tired ears to the same sounds, distinguishing the whistling of flights from the roar of shots, looked at the closer faces of the people of the 1st battalion and waited. “Here she is... this one is coming to us again! - he thought, listening to the approaching whistle of something from the closed area of ​​​​smoke. - One, another! More! Got it... He stopped and looked at the rows. “No, it was postponed. But this one hit.” And he began to walk again, trying to take long steps in order to reach the boundary in sixteen steps. Whistle and blow! Five steps away from him, the dry ground exploded and the cannonball disappeared. An involuntary chill ran down his spine. He looked again at the rows. A lot of people probably vomited; a large crowd gathered at the 2nd battalion. “Mr. Adjutant,” he shouted, “order that there is no crowd.” - The adjutant, having carried out the order, approached Prince Andrei. From the other side, the battalion commander rode up on horseback. - Be careful! - a frightened cry of a soldier was heard, and, like a bird whistling in rapid flight, crouching on the ground, two steps from Prince Andrei, next to the battalion commander’s horse, a grenade quietly plopped down. The horse was the first, without asking whether it was good or bad to express fear, snorted, reared up, almost toppling the major, and galloped away to the side. The horror of the horse was communicated to people. - Get down! - shouted the voice of the adjutant, who lay down on the ground. Prince Andrei stood indecisive. The grenade, like a top, smoking, spun between him and the lying adjutant, on the edge of the arable land and meadow, near a wormwood bush. “Is this really death? - thought Prince Andrei, looking with a completely new, envious gaze at the grass, at the wormwood and at the stream of smoke curling from the spinning black ball. “I can’t, I don’t want to die, I love life, I love this grass, earth, air...” He thought this and at the same time remembered that they were looking at him. - Shame on you, Mr. Officer! - he told the adjutant. “What...” he didn’t finish. At the same time, an explosion was heard, the whistling of fragments as if of a broken frame, the stuffy smell of gunpowder - and Prince Andrei rushed to the side and, raising his hand up, fell on his chest. Several officers ran up to him. On the right side of the abdomen there was a large stain of blood spreading across the grass. The militiamen with stretchers were called and stopped behind the officers. Prince Andrei lay on his chest, with his face down on the grass, and breathed heavily, snoring. - Well, come on now! The men came up and took him by the shoulders and legs, but he moaned pitifully, and the men, after exchanging glances, let him go again. - Take it, put it down, it’s all the same! – someone’s voice shouted. Another time they took him by the shoulders and put him on a stretcher. - Oh my god! My God! What is this?.. Belly! This is the end! Oh my god! – voices were heard between the officers. “It buzzed just past my ear,” said the adjutant. The men, having adjusted the stretcher on their shoulders, hastily set off along the path they had trodden to the dressing station. - Keep up... Eh!.. man! - the officer shouted, stopping the men walking unevenly and shaking the stretcher by their shoulders. “Make adjustments, or something, Khvedor, Khvedor,” said the man in front. “That’s it, it’s important,” the one behind him said joyfully, hitting him in the leg. - Your Excellency? A? Prince? – Timokhin ran up and said in a trembling voice, looking into the stretcher. Prince Andrei opened his eyes and looked from behind the stretcher, into which his head was deeply buried, at the one who was speaking, and again lowered his eyelids. The militia brought Prince Andrei to the forest where the trucks were parked and where there was a dressing station. The dressing station consisted of three tents spread out with folded floors on the edge of a birch forest. There were wagons and horses in the birch forest. The horses in the ridges were eating oats, and sparrows flew to them and picked up the spilled grains. The crows, sensing blood, cawing impatiently, flew over the birch trees. Around the tents, with more than two acres of space, lay, sat, and stood bloodied people in various clothes. Around the wounded, with sad and attentive faces, stood crowds of soldier porters, whom the officers in charge of order vainly drove away from this place. Without listening to the officers, the soldiers stood leaning on the stretcher and looked intently, as if trying to understand the difficult meaning of the spectacle, at what was happening in front of them. Loud, angry screams and pitiful groans were heard from the tents. Occasionally a paramedic would run out to fetch water and point out those who needed to be brought in. The wounded, waiting for their turn at the tent, wheezed, moaned, cried, screamed, cursed, and asked for vodka. Some were delirious. Prince Andrei, as a regimental commander, walking through the unbandaged wounded, was carried closer to one of the tents and stopped, awaiting orders. Prince Andrei opened his eyes and for a long time could not understand what was happening around him. The meadow, wormwood, arable land, the black spinning ball and his passionate outburst of love for life came back to him. Two steps away from him, speaking loudly and drawing everyone's attention to himself, stood, leaning on a branch and with his head tied, a tall, handsome, black-haired non-commissioned officer. He was wounded in the head and leg by bullets. A crowd of wounded and bearers gathered around him, eagerly listening to his speech. “We just fucked him up, he abandoned everything, they took the king himself!” – the soldier shouted, his black, hot eyes shining and looking around him. “If only the Lezers had come that very time, his title, my brother, would not have remained, so I’m telling you the truth...” Prince Andrei, like everyone else around the narrator, looked at him with a brilliant gaze and felt a comforting feeling. “But doesn’t it matter now,” he thought. - What will happen there and what happened here? Why was I so sorry to part with my life? There was something in this life that I didn’t understand and don’t understand.” One of the doctors, in a bloody apron and with bloody small hands, in one of which he held a cigar between his little finger and thumb (so as not to stain it), came out of the tent. This doctor raised his head and began to look around, but above the wounded. He obviously wanted to rest a little. After moving his head to the right and left for a while, he sighed and lowered his eyes. “Well, now,” he said in response to the words of the paramedic, who pointed him to Prince Andrei, and ordered him to be carried into the tent. There was a murmur from the crowd of waiting wounded. “Apparently, the gentlemen will live alone in the next world,” said one. Prince Andrei was carried in and laid on a newly cleaned table, from which the paramedic was rinsing something. Prince Andrei could not make out exactly what was in the tent. Piteous moans from different sides, excruciating pain in the thigh, stomach and back entertained him. Everything that he saw around him merged for him into one general impression of a naked, bloody human body, which seemed to fill the entire low tent, just as a few weeks ago on this hot August day the same body filled the dirty pond along the Smolensk road . Yes, it was that same body, that same chair a canon [fodder for cannons], the sight of which even then, as if predicting what would happen now, aroused horror in him. There were three tables in the tent. Two were occupied, and Prince Andrei was placed on the third. He was left alone for some time, and he involuntarily saw what was happening on the other two tables. On the nearby table sat a Tatar, probably a Cossack, judging by his uniform thrown nearby. Four soldiers held him. The bespectacled doctor was cutting something into his brown, muscular back.

Archbishop JONAFAN (YELETSKIKH)

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(on the occasion of the 55th birthday)

Archbishop Jonathan (in the world Anatoly Ivanovich Yeletskikh) was born on January 30, 1949 in the village. Shatalovka, Starooskolsky district, in the family of a teacher. In 1966 he graduated from high school. After serving in the ranks of the Soviet army, he entered the Leningrad Theological Seminary, and then the Theological Academy. He studied simultaneously in the regency class of the academy and in the seminary. In 1976 he was tonsured a monk with the name Jonathan and ordained a hierodeacon, and in 1978 a hieromonk. He graduated from the academy with a candidate's degree in theology and was retained as a professor's fellow.

For several years he taught church singing at the seminary and in the regency class, and also served as a choir director in Leningrad theological schools. Since 1986 - cleric of the Vladimir Cathedral in Kyiv. Since June 1988, he has been a resident of the revived Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, and since October of the same year, the governor of this monastery.

By the decree of His Holiness Patriarch Pimen and the Holy Synod of April 10, 1989, Archimandrite Jonathan was determined to be Bishop of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky, vicar of the Kyiv diocese. Since 1992, Jonathan has been Bishop of Belotserkovsky, vicar of the Kyiv diocese. In the same year, Metropolitan of Kyiv Philaret was defrocked. In 1994 he was appointed Archbishop of Glukhov and Konotop. Since 1995 - Archbishop of Sumy and Akhtyrsky. In 1999 he was appointed Archbishop of Kherson and Tauride.

A.N. Krupenkov, local historian

Literature

Kireev, A. Dioceses and bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1943-2002 / A. Kireev. – M., 2002. – 480 p.

1 – 95 years since the birth (1909 – 1980) of Vasily Mikhailovich Kislov, mining engineer, laureate of the USSR State Prize, native of the Irkutsk region. A major specialist in the field of mining, under his leadership the firstborn of the KMA was built - the mine named after. Gubkin and Lebedinsky mine.

& – Vasily Mikhailovich Kislov // Belgorod Encyclopedia. – Belgorod, 2000. – P. 192; The land of Belgorod is proud of them. Issue 2. Scientists and technicians: Rec. decree. lit. – Belgorod, 1987. – P. 37

1* – 50 years since the creation of the Belgorod Forestry Department.

5 – 50 years since the formation of the Belgorod Regional Department of Culture.

& – Kulabukhov A.V. Cultural activity in the region (on the example of the Belgorod region) // Ten years that shook culture: Essays on the cultural life of Russia at the turn of the century. – M., 2002. – P. 263 – 271; Parkhomenko, I.G. Cultural life in the Belgorod region. 1917 – 1990. Historical chronicle / I.G. Parkhomenko, A.P. Chichenkov. – Belgorod, 1997. – P. 81; Kulabukhov A.V. Cultural policy of the Belgorod region // Directory of the head of cultural institutions. – 2002. – No. 5. – P. 39 – 42.

7 – 95 years since the birth (1909 - 1991) of Alexander Fedorovich Pershin, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Honored Builder of the Republic, Honorary Citizen of Belgorod, native of the village. Krutoy Log, Belgorod district, Belgorod region.

& – Pershin Alexander Fedorovich // Protsenko V. Honorary citizens of Belgorod. – Belgorod: Peasant Business, 1995. – P.118-124.

11 – 65 years since the birth (1939) of Valery Vasilyevich Golyshev, muralist, member of the Union of Artists of Russia, native of Valuyka.

& – Golyshev Valery Vasilievich // Belgorod Encyclopedia. – 2000. – P. 118; Golyshev Valery Vasilievich // 30 years of the Belgorod organization of the Union of Artists of Russia. – Belgorod, 1998. – P. 16; Snezhko, A. Uniqueness of forms and imaginative thinking / A. Snezhko // Dawns. – 1994. – April 21.

13* – 85 years since the birth (1919) of Semyon Ivanovich Chaikin, scientist, researcher at the KMA, laureate of the Lenin Prize (1959), State Prize (1951). Since 1968, he worked as head of the geology department of the VIOGEM Institute, a native of the village. Terekhovo, Voronezh region.

14* – 80 years since the birth (1924) of Leonid Grigorievich Malkin, writer, journalist, native of Pochep, Bryansk region.

24 – 50 years since the founding of the federal state unitary enterprise “State Television and Radio Broadcasting.

& – Parkhomenko I.G., Chichenkov A.P. Cultural life in the Belgorod region. 1917 – 1990. Historical chronicle. – Belgorod, 1997. – P. 81; Kislitsina A. Yuri Pomelnikov: “My dream is to give a green road to youth” // Our Belgorod. – 2002. – May 8. – P. 6; Kalugin A. State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company "Belgorod": healthy lifestyle // Zebra - Courier. – 2002. – March 27-April 2. – P. 2.

27* – 80 years since the founding (1924) of the Forest on Vorskla Nature Reserve.

28 – 140 years since the birth (1864 - 1937) of Fyodor Stepanovich Zozulin, painter and teacher, native of Sl. Neklyudovo, Kursk province (now Belgorod region).

& – Zozulin Fedor Stepanovich // Belgorod Encyclopedia. – 2000. – P. 170; Zozulin Fedor Stepanovich // The Belgorod land is proud of them. Issue 3. Workers of culture, literature and art: Rec. decree. lit. – Belgorod, 1997. – pp. 26-27.

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