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The debate about who actually was St. Theodore of Tomsk, historians have been leading for several decades. Some scholars believe that Theodore was actually Emperor Alexander the First, who in favor of his brother abdicated the Russian throne and imitated own death in Taganrog, after which he set off to wander in Russia, in order to atone for sins.
He arrived in Tomsk in 1837. Theodore Kuzmich was engaged in the fact that taught children literacy, history, and scripture. In the form of a board he took only food, but refused money. The inhabitants worshiped an old man for a righteous life. The last years of Theodore Kuzmich passed in Tomsk, there he died. The grave of the holy elder became a place pilgrimage. In 1984, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized Theodore. In 1995, the acquisition of his saints took place relics that became one of Tomsk shrines.
Recently, graphologists conducted a handwriting examination manuscripts of Alexander the First and Theodore of Tomsk. Conclusion by experts, this is: this is the handwriting of the same person! A sensational statement was made at the forum dedicated to Alexander The first – the elder Theodore. July 22, this forum opened in Tomsk.
Manuscript study
The identity of the handwriting of the emperor and the holy elder was established by the president of ANO “Russian Graphological Society” Svetlana Semenova.
She was given the manuscript of Alexander the First, which was on the moment of its creation is 45 years old, as well as a handwritten manuscript Theodore Kuzmich. At the same time, at first, Semenova did not know who the author was. letters. As a graphologist, she noted the originality of handwriting and unusual the relationship between writing graphics and psychological qualities personality of the writer. As a result of his research, Semenov concluded that both manuscripts most likely belong to to one author. The only difference: the letters of the 82-year-old testify that he moved to the spiritual world. IN Theodore’s handwriting appeared arched and directed roundness. However, dominants are found in both manuscripts, she said. graphologist.
Other evidence
Andrey Rachinsky is a professor at the National Institute Oriental languages and civilizations (Paris), doctor of historical Sciences and researcher of the life of Alexander the First. To reporters he said that, in addition to the similarity of handwriting, there are other indirect signs that the Russian emperor and the holy elder is one and the same person. So, the engraving on which was Theodore Tomsky is depicted, hung by Alexander the Third in the office along with portraits of crowned ancestors. Next, Semen Khromov, the Tomsk merchant with whom the saint lived transferred the property Theodore Kuzmich things to Konstantin Pobedonostsev, who headed Holy Synod. How to explain such veneration old man?
Andrei Rachinsky also noted that the wife of Alexander the First – Elizaveta Alekseevna – did not see the deceased in Taganrog. She I went to Petersburg, but I didn’t reach there and died in the city of Belev. The scientist believes that, like her husband, the queen staged death and then moved to the monastery, where she bore the name Faith of the Silencers. This is also indirect evidence that between there was a contract between husband and wife, says the historian.
A life
