Defenсe of Candidate Theses Performed at the Department of Church History at the Moscow Theological Academy

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The historian is so kind to humanity that he saves names and events from obscurity, preserving the past for the future. But a special "caste" among historians are archivists, people who have devoted their entire lives to work in archives. Bending over piles of documents, the historian-archivist selects the most precious of them in order to communicate them to the world. Sometimes such reports can turn the world upside down, sometimes they can make a splash in the academic world, and sometimes they can add new features or unexpected actions to the portrait of a person we already know. Archpriest Victor Lisiunin, who successfully defended his dissertation on 14 November 2019, is among these hard-working archivists. For several years he has persistently sought out and carefully collected documentary evidence about the ministry of St Luke (Vojno-Jasenetsky) in the Tambov diocese. The result was a doctoral research, telling about various aspects of church life under the saint's rule in the late 40s of the last century in the Tambov land.