Father Anatoly Tikhai was a hieromonk who went to Japan in the early 1870s to assist Fr.
During his years in Japan before he returned to Russia due to illness, Archimandrite Anatoly organized and taught schools in Hakodate and Osaka as well as serving as dean of the language school and organizing the Tokyo Orthodox Seminary in Tokyo.
He was born 23 November 1839 in Tărăsăuţi, Hotin district (later known as Khotinsky Uyezd) in the northern part of Moldova (Bessarabia).
Anatoly established the Motomachi Orthodox Primary School in Hakodate where he taught for the next seven years.
Nicholas to come to the Kanda Surugadai headquarters in Tokyo to become the dean of the language school and the newly organized seminary.
In the late 1880s Archimandrite Anatoly's health began to fail, and in the summer of 1890 he returned to Russia where he reposed in 1893.