The guard is vain and true. Kalmykov A.A.

A little more than a century ago, the Tobolsk bishop of Germogen (Dolganov; 1858-1918) took from the Bogoblars a martyrdom for Christ, standing in the first rows of a host of new martyrs and confessors of Russian. In tsarist Russia, his name was known far beyond the borders of the diocese entrusted to him. He was known as an indistinguishable fighter with a revolutionary seditious and spiritual corruption of Russian people, they knew as an unshakable guard who protects the foundations of the foundations of Russian life - an undistorted faith, the idea of ​​autocracy and the grandeur of the Fatherland. The Holy Righteous Father John of Kronstadt called his ministry a feat. And at the same time, Vladyka Hermogen did not like politics, and if he was engaged in it, then only in order to spiritualize her with the ideals of Orthodoxy and church bearers. Despite the fact that several books were written about the Hermogenic Hermogen, the work proposed to the reader Alexander Kalmykov is his most complete biography, compiled on the basis of archival materials and periodic printing of the beginning of the 20th century.