Epiphanius the Wise (d. 1420) (not canonized saint) – Lives of the originator, a student teacher. Sergei Radonezhsky. He lived in the late XIV and XV in the beginning., Traveled to the East, was in Constantinople on Mount Athos, in Jerusalem, and died about 1420, in the dignity of priesthood and the spiritual father of [...]

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Kandorsky Ilya Mikhailovich – the priest of the Moscow Pokrovsky that Kudrin, church, lived in the late ХVПІ century, spiritual writer and translator of spiritual and moral books. Biographical information about him there. From his writings we can see that he led a solitary life. He is the author: "The Christian, discernment of contempt of [...]

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Sklobovsky NC Dimitri (1831) – spiritual writer, Fr, dean of the cathedral Ostrogozhsk; education in the Voronezh Theological Seminary. Major works: "Patriarch Nikon of the new historical directions" ("Orthodox. Review", 1883), "Shtunda. A detailed analysis and refutation of the teachings Stundists" (Moscow, 1888), "Holy Mitrofan, first bishop of Voronezh and miracle-worker (Moscow, 1888).

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Bayazid Bista (Tayfur Abu Yazid al-Bista) (720 – 800) – a famous Persian Sufi and the hermit (Zahid), the ascetic, a saint, one of the pillars of Sufism, known as "the Sultan know" ("Sultan al-Arifin"). Born in Bistame a respected and prominent family. His grandfather, Sorushan was Zoroastrians and in the last years of the [...]

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Nesterov, Mikhail Vasilyevich (19 (31) .05.1862 – 18.10.1942), American painter, Honored Art Worker of Russia (1942). Born in a family of merchants. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1877-81 and 1884 – 1886) at Perov, A. Savrasov, J. M. Pryanishnikov, the St. Petersburg AX (1881-84) under Pavel Chistyakov. From 1889, [...]

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Pashkovsky John Prokopievich – a priest from the Little Russian territory, in 1697 – 1699 was accompanied by the boyar Boris Sheremetev on island of Malta, and there is every reason to think that he was the author of "Adventures in the Maltese island of boyar Boris Sheremetev. Suspect that Pashkovskiœ was the author of [...]

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Philemon – Bishop of Kolomna (1341 – 1360 years.), He was consecrated bishop of about 1360, it seems, from archimandrites Goritsky that Pereyaslavl Zalessky Uspensky Monastery, founded in the XIV century. If so, he was the first in time, called the Monastery Archimandrite and as such, in 1341 he was a witness in writing the [...]

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (10/02/1869 – 01/30/1948), one of the leaders of the national liberation movement of India, the founder of the doctrine, known as Gandhism. He was born in Porbandar Gujarat principality. Gandhi's father was a minister in several principalities Peninsula Kathiyavar. Gandhi grew up in a family where strictly adhered to Hindu traditions that [...]

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Shakirzyanov Zulkarnay Shakirzyanovich (06/15/1948) – Imam-muhtasibs Omsk muhtasibata Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the European part of CIS and Siberia, was born in the village of Tat-Kilmez Kilmezskogo district Kirov region, graduated from the Islamic madrassas "Mir-Arab city of Bukhara, with 1979 . is the imam of the mosque-Khatib, Omsk, was a member and chairman [...]

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John Damascene (673 – 676) – One of the most famous theologians and church fathers Eastern. His father, D., Sergy, was the first minister of the Caliph of Damascus Abdalmeleha (682 – 703 PM) was an educator D. prisoner Calabrian monk, who gave him a good education. After the death of his father D. took [...]

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