Sergei Solovyov (Catholic priest)

In September 1912 in the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in the Nadovrazhnom village(Moscow Province) he married Tatiana Alekseevna Turgeneva.

Solovyov wrote poetry since childhood, in 1905 for the first time his poems and literary articles were published in the press.

In 1916, he reissued the poem of his brother Vladimir Solovyov, anticipating the collection of biographical essays, the epigraph to his word, he puts the Croatian Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer " Solovief Anima Candida, pia AC Vere sancta Est ".

After long and painful pursuit, Father Sergei Solovyov makes a decision that will never become a Catholic, what wrote in his letter to Natalia Wrangell-Levitsky from October 14, 1916: But then came the resolution, and you were right.

I saw clearly that I never want to change the sacred cause of unification of the churches, so impossible for me to pass the citizenship of the Pope, and I breathed freely feeding.

/ ... / And I saw clearly how everything dear to me in Catholicism faded would be for me if I broke with the Russian Church and the Vatican office podmahnul act of accession.

According to his former parishioner Nora Rubashova, the Roman Catholic priests assigned to the parish secretly allowed Father Sergei to use the side altar dedicated to Our Lady of Ostrabrama, where he offered the Byzantine Rite Divine Liturgy in the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language.

[1] Rubashova later recalled, "Father Sergey said [Divine Liturgy] each day at this altar, and on the eve of major feasts he observed the All Night Vigil.

She was secretly baptized in Moscow into the Russian Greek Catholic Church, with Nora Rubashova as her godmother, by the former Symbolist poet Fr.

He also gave papers in their apartments; I remember his works on Sts Sergius of Radonezh, Serafim of Sarov, the unification of the Churches, and other theological themes.

He has an excellent command of language, both in conversation and in scholarly works; his thinking was always original and deep, his speech was artistically gifted.

On August 18 by order of the Board of the OGPU Solovyov was sentenced to 10 years in labor camp replacement with deportation to Kazakhstan.

Gaidenko P. "Temptation" holy flesh "(Sergey Solovyov and Russian Silver Age)" / / Questions of literature .