Iliodor
| Sergei Trufanov | |
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Trufanov in Donskaja
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Sergei Mikhailovich Trufanov October 19, 1880 Stanitsa Mariinskaya, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire |
| Died | January 28, 1952 New York City, New York |
| Occupation | Monk, author |
Sergei Michailovich Trufanov (Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Труфа́нов; formerly Hieromonk Iliodor or Hieromonk Heliodorus, Russian: Иеромонах Илиодор; October 19, 1880 – 28 January 1952) was a lapsed hieromonk, a charismatic churchman, an enfant terrible of the Orthodox church, and panslavist. In his youth he was influenced by ideas of the Don Cossacks coming from this region.
He is known primarily for his book, semi-autobiographical, and biographical on Rasputin. In this work, he was supported by Maxim Gorky, who hoped that Trufanoff's story on Rasputin would discredit the Tsar's family and eventually contribute to the revolutionary propaganda.
Sergei was born in stanitsa Mariinsky and grew up in a small cottage near the Don river as the son of a local deacon. He was one of thirteen children; according to himself five died young of famine. At the age of ten he went to school in Novocherkassk. At the age of 15 he went to the local theological seminary. Five years later he graduated and went to the capital to attend the St. Petersburg Theological Academy.
In 1903 he was ordained a hieromonk under the name Iliodor; two years later he graduated from the academy. There he had met with Father Gapon as a student. Iliodor helped the poor and expected the clergy, not the revolutionaries could change the country. Then he was discovered by Theofan of Poltava and met with Rasputin. Iliodor was appointed at the seminary in Jaroslavl, but returned to the capital within a year. He was invited to the Peterhof Palace but scandalized his audience in a sermon, defending a land reform, which should be ordered by the Tsar. The Russian aristocrats and the Most Holy Synod were shocked with his behavior. The Synod decided to ban Iliodor, but Rasputin and the Tsar defended him. Instead Iliodor moved to Volhynia and lived in Pochayiv Lavra, the center of Panslavism. In a paper he attacked the revolutionaries and the Jews. According to himself Iliodor turned against [word missing] in the right-wing Union of the Russian People and the Black Hundreds movement, because they believed in the Tsar's .
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