THE LIFE WAY OF SEMYON IVANOVICH SHIRSKY

Archpriest Dmitry Karnaukh

Vice-rector for AHV, teacher of the Kostroma Theological Seminary

Kostroma Theological Seminary, Kostroma, Russia

Email: oikonom44@mail.ru

Issue: № 3 (15), 2021

Pages: 88

Annotation

This article is dedicated to Semyon Ivanovich Shirsky, a native of the Kostroma hinterland, a graduate of the Kostroma Theological Seminary, the St. Petersburg Theological Academy and who taught a course of Scripture in his native Kostroma Seminary for 10 years. Shirsky S.I. went from a seminarian to a teacher, and later from a secretary of the Kostroma spiritual consistory to a prosecutor and manager of the office of the Georgian-Imereti Holy Synod office. In 1891 Shirsky S.I. was promoted to actual state councilor. He was the author of scientific works on teaching the Law of God in public schools. Buried in the city of Kostroma in the Epiphany-Anastasin monastery. In this article, the author, on the basis of the archival materials of GAKO introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, traced the life path of one of the outstanding pupils and teachers of the Kostroma Theological Seminary, unjustifiably forgotten, but at the same time made a significant contribution to spiritual education, and also touched upon those individuals, with whom the fate of S.I.Shirsky intersected The year 2021 marks the 130th anniversary of his death, and this article will be a contribution to the memory of our fellow countryman who worked in the field of Christ.

Keywords

S. I. Shirsky, Galich school, Kostroma seminary, spiritual consistory, state councilor, Georgian-Imeretian Holy Synod office.

For citation

Karnaukh D. I., prot. The life way professor of the Kostroma theological seminary of Semyon Ivanovich Shirsky (to the 130th anniversary of his death) // Ipatievsky vestnik. — 2021. — № 3. — Р . 88–116.