VOYNO-YASENETSKY'S (ST. LUKA’S) TIES WITH KRASNOYARSKAFTER HIS DEPARTURE FROM SIBERIA (BASED ON THEINFORMATION FROM SURGEON V. N. ZINOVYEVA)

Abstract

It is the first time when the relationship of the outstanding surgeon, Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archbishop Luka (Voino-Yasenetsky) (1877-1961) and his student, Krasnoyarsk surgeon V. N. Zinovieva (1908-2000) are examined in detail in the article. The article presents biographical information about V. N. Zinovyeva, V. F. Voyno-Yasenetsky’s letters, addressed to the student in Krasnoyarsk from Tambov and Simferopol in 1946-1953. In addition there are excerpts from the most unique memoirs of V. N. Zinovieva, which were dictated to the author of the article in 1997 for the first time. On the basis of these and other accounts three periods of V. N. Zinovieva's life are singled out, that represent scientific interest in the study of the events of the life and work of V. F Voino-Yasenetsky and his inner circle in the Krasnoyarsk period (1941-1944) and in the time following. The use of materials about Krasnoyarsk doctor V. N. Zinovieva help to reveal the depth of professional and human relations of Voino-Yasenetsky with the secular circles.