Sergei Mikhailovich Trufanov

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Sergei Trufanov in the Donskoy Monastery

Sergei Mikhailovich Trufanow ( Russian Сергей Михайлович Труфанов , religious name Iliodor ; born October 7, jul. / 19th October  1880 greg. In Mariinskaja, Don Cossacks -Provinz, Russian Empire ; † 28 January 1952 in New York City , United States ) was a Russian Orthodox monk, preacher, writer and film actor. He became known for his autobiography entitled The Crazy Monk , in the reports on Rasputin occupy a broad place.

Life

Iliodor reads a telegram of thanks from the people to the emperor, 1910

Sergei Trufanov was born in Stanitsa Mariinskaya on the banks of the Don, the son of a deacon . He was one of thirteen children, five of whom he said died of starvation while childhood. As a ten year old he attended school in Novocherkassk . At the age of 15, he entered a theological seminary, which he completed after five years. In 1901 he began studying at the Spiritual Academy in Saint Petersburg , where he met the later Bishop Theophan and Rasputin.

In 1903 he became a priest monk under the religious name Iliodor and received a position as a lecturer at the seminary in Yaroslavl . After a conflict with the rector there, an opponent of the nationalist Black Hundreds , he was transferred to the seminary in Novgorod and after a few months returned to the capital. He was given access to the Tsar's Palace , where he shocked his audience with a sermon about the need for land reform to be carried out by the Tsar. At this time he was defended by Tsar Nicholas II and Rasputin, but retired to Pochayiv in Volhynia to the Holy Ascension Monastery, where he spoke out in writing against revolutionaries and Jews . After his verbal attacks against Prime Minister Stolypin , industrialists and local politicians, the Holy Synod forbade him to preach. However, Bishop Hermogen appointed him abbot and sent him to Tsaritsyn , where Iliodorus built the Holy Spirit Monastery. During a dispute in the autumn of 1911 over the appointment of a candidate for bishopric, Iliodor presented a confidante of the tsar's letters to Rasputin, which he had taken during a visit to his house in his home village Pokrovskoye in 1909 and which were intended to place the author in an unfavorable light. Thereupon he was banished by Tsarina Alexandra together with Hermogen and Bishop Theophan.

In fanatical sermons, Iliodorus warned of the approaching end of the world and the coming age of the Antichrist . He loudly supported the right-wing extremist association of the Russian people , advocated the reintroduction of the death penalty, wanted to ban foreigners from Russia and described the country as "chained in Jewish chains". A biographer called him a proto-fascist , while Lenin described him as the expression of a novelty in Russia: "Dark, peasant democracy of the rawest but deepest kind".

Publicity for the film The Fall of the Romanoffs

In 1912, Iliodor left the Russian Orthodox Church and was expelled from the priesthood. After an unsuccessful attempt to murder Rasputin with the politician Chwostov in the spring of 1916 , he went to New York, where he played himself in the lost silent film The Fall of the Romanoffs . In 1918 he returned to Russia, now Soviet Russia , offered his services to Lenin and lived in Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd ) for a few years .

In 1922 he took his wife and three children to New York, where he became a Baptist and worked as a caretaker in the Metropolitan Life Tower . He died of heart failure in Manhattan on January 28, 1952 .

His autobiography begins with the words:

"My life began in a poor peasant's hut, blossomed in royal palaces and finally sank to the level of exile and fearful worry in a foreign land."

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. Russian: Свято-Духов монастырь
  2. Douglas Smith: Rasputin , The Mad Monk. Pp. 60-61.
  3. Douglas Smith: Rasputin , The Mad Monk. P. 62.

literature

Web links

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