Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow
Saint Tikhon of Moscow was a of Moscow in the beginning of the Soviet Union. His name, before he became a saint, was Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin(Russian: Василий Иванович Беллавин). He was by the Synod of Bishops. It is possible that the character of the elder Zosimov in the Russian novel The Brothers Karamazov was influenced by him.
| Saint Tikhon, 11th Patriarch of Moscow and of All Russia | |
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| Confessor, Patriarch of Moscow, Apostle to America | |
| Born | 31 January 1865, Klin (Toropets district, Pskov Province), Russian Empire |
| Died | 7 April 1925 (aged 60), Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodoxy, Episcopal Church (USA) |
| Canonized |
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| Major shrine | Donskoy Monastery, Moscow |
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