Igumenia Agafya biography

Not far, behind the Saratov-Passenger railway station there is one of the oldest cemeteries of the city-the Voskresenskoye cemetery. It runs along Sokolovaya Street, but is located at the address: Pichuginsky lanes, local old -timers often call the cemetery not Voskresensky, but Pichuginsky, and not even from the name of the lane, but by the name of the philanthropist Alexei Pichugin, who donated money for the equipment of the new city cemetery in the year.

Then it was located outside the city line. Subsequently, the temple of the Resurrection of Christ was erected in the cemetery and, according to the name of the temple, the cemetery began to be called Voskresensky. For the city of Saratov, this can be said as a squeak for St. Petersburg. The cemetery is a local necropolis, a memorial, where more than 10 thousand fighters and commanders of the Red Army were buried who died from RAS in Saratov hospitals, and quite a lot of them were translated during the war in the Volga region.

The cemetery is also famous for the fact that the famous Russian writer, democrat, literary critic Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky, whose novel “What to do? If you ask you to show you the grave of the “abbess of Agafia, the granddaughter of Suvorov”, then the locals with the pleasure of M will do this ... on the grave of the fresh sign: “The abbess of Agafia. The granddaughter of the great Russian commander A.

Who is the exertion of Agaphia? But what ... in the distant and gloomy year in the USSR, it was decided to conduct the census of the population, although the previous census was carried out in the USSR Such a census was carried out in one 10 days after its results, the organizers were arrested and for the most part were classified and published only in the year. The “Communist” dated January 15, the journalist wrote: “During the census of the population, Agafya Ilyinichna Suvorova, who lives in the second working passage, was the oldest person in Saratov.

She is the year. " It is clear that the old woman of this age could not but arouse interest from the newspaper editorial office. A correspondent who talked with her was sent to her.

The old woman told about herself the following: - I was born in a year. I remember the war of Russia with Napoleon well. Then I lived with my parents in Kostroma. I especially remember serfdom. I was a fortress landowner Kruglikov in the village of Fedino of the Yaroslavl province. It was difficult to live. The day and night at the Lord worked. 23 talca arshin straightened up a day.

I'm many years old. Yes, in our family, everyone lived for a long time. My father Ilya Pavlovich lived to the age of years, and Uncle Vasily Pavlovich - up to the age of years. A few days later, the other Saratov newspaper "Young Stalinets" dated January 20 of the year published an article entitled "The Year of Birth". There were additional facts from the life of Agafya Suvorova.

Among other things, it turned out that the old woman in the past was the hegumen of one of the local convents, but she was dispersed for faith. That year she was years old and she served in camps for 24 years. Freed at the age of years and was sent to the settlement to the city of Engels of the Saratov region. The newspaper also published a photograph of a small, pike, but strong old woman with alive eyes and completely clear memory.

I will allow myself to quote the denunciations that went to the gloomy medieval time on the believing people of the glorious city of Saratov: “The former abbess, was a nun and named the monastic - Agrippina. She accepted the tonsure and even before the revolution decided to go to the pilgrimage to Jerusalem and did it. On foot, she reached Jerusalem, prayed there to the Christian shrines and returned to Russia on foot.

In the city, during interrogations, Agripina Suvorova signed the following indications: old women on benches; About the same age, shod in the same bots, gather at the entrances, communicate in a whisper. What they talk about and in what language is not clear, when an outsider appears, they immediately fall silent. If one old woman is pulled out of this clip, it instantly replaces it exactly the same.

Uniform - an uncertain coat from spring to late autumn. This is one and the same coat. They inherit it from a year. They have a deeply conspiratorial underground center. Where do the teams come from at x “X” to buy salt, sugar, pasta and matches. It is necessary to find out for what purpose the public city tram is blocked by crowds of the old diversion when people are in a hurry to the public service, as well as incredible queues in stores and what they have been trembling at the entrances for the past 37 years in favor of Britain.

Convicted to 24 years of hard labor. Until now, there is no, no, no talk in the Saratov press about whether Agafya Suvorova actually was the granddaughter of Generalissimus A. Suvorov, or is it all local rumor supplemented the story about the long-liver with such amazing details.After all, it is known that there were no relatives with the name of Ilya in the family of Suvorov ...

But despite such a seemingly obvious fact, being the governor of the Moscow region, General Boris Gromov initiated a request to verify this information. He also asked to transfer to the Museum of the Suvorov School the accumulated materials about the granddaughter of Generalissimo A. He said that, being a pupil of the Suvorovsky school in Saratov, he saw this strange old woman at that time.

The fact that such a woman existed in reality and that her age was, or approximately like that, is confirmed by many memories of those who still remember Grandma Agafyu. It is possible that, most likely, Agafya Suvorova was an unpleasant long -lived, as evidenced by inaccuracies with the age of the old woman who, according to some data, lived years, and according to others - a number of other facts.

There are also more fantastic rumors regarding the abbess of Agafya, some of which you can read on the network. But they seem to me completely prohibitively far -fetched ....