The widow of Dmitry Panin, one of the heroes of “In the First Circle,” returned her husband’s good name
Fans of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s talent have known who Dmitry Sologdin is for many years. And after watching Gleb Panfilov’s film based on the great writer’s novel “In the First Circle,” the whole country learned about it. Solzhenitsyn described in his work what he himself experienced, and therefore all the facts and people of his creation are not fictional. Nerzhin's friend and ally Sologdin, brilliantly performed by Sergei Karyakin, is Dmitry Panin. Once, while in Paris, I met his wife Issa Yakovlevna Panina. She opened up to me a huge world of the lofty, tragic, amazing fate of her husband, who was a brilliant scientist and writer. He died a year before this meeting of mine. Issa Yakovlevna, with her energy and obsession, created a miracle: Panin was recognized by his long-suffering homeland, which had already forgotten about one of its sons. And this great woman has been gone for several years now. Only her voice remains on the tape of this interview, which is being published for the first time.
Issa Yakovlevna, after the wedding you and Panin had to leave the USSR. Yes. Our wedding took place on February 8, 1972, just before leaving for the West. And we met Dmitry Mikhailovich back in the late 60s.
You left your homeland two years before Solzhenitsyn emigrated. Why did Dmitry Mikhailovich make this decision?
He thought about it all the time. And one of the reasons: all his friends believed that only there, in freedom, would he be able to complete his research and write books. In recent years, my husband worked as the chief designer in one of the closed “boxes”. The service took a lot of time. So in the West he really quickly completed his work called “Pendulum World”. Its essence is that the world, according to Panin, moves by certain oscillations. He believed that because of them 38 civilizations had perished, and therefore sought to ensure that people of good will stopped this movement of humanity towards destruction.
But how, in those terrible times, when Yuri Andropov was in power, was a scientist associated with secret work allowed to leave the Union?
The only legal way that was available at that time was through Israel. Then a so-called state call was received from two countries: Holland and Israel. Moreover, there is an amazing detail: as soon as we received travel documents from the hands of the Dutch ambassador, literally the next day personal invitations from Dmitry Mikhailovich’s friends from different countries appeared in our mailbox. Apparently they were not handed over to us intentionally. And now there was nowhere to go...
How did the West receive you?
With great interest and cordiality. We arrived in Rome, and Pope Paul VI gave an audience to Panin. Dmitry Mikhailovich was offered a residence permit in any country. He chose his beloved France. I remember when we arrived, many journalists were eager to interview Panin, but he did not want to say anything. He performed for the first time in Brussels only a year later.
Why do you think the Pope was so favorable to your husband?
Dmitry Mikhailovich was from a very religious family. From childhood he was raised in the faith, from which he never left. And especially during the years of camps and prisons. His mother belonged to the old noble family of the Opryanins. After the revolution, she completely devoted herself to religion and until her death in 1926 she was an adherent of Patriarch Tikhon. His father's four sisters were monks in the monastery of the city of Krasnoslobodsk.
Did faith help him in life?
But what about... Once Dmitry Mikhailovich was very close to death in the camp. He was already dying in the camp infirmary from dehydration. And then I decided to fight to the end. To fight with the only weapon available to him - prayer. Trying to hold on to his constantly slipping consciousness, he forced himself to repeat the “Our Father” prayer of prayers many times, delving into every word. Mentally, he made a vow to God: if the Lord grants him life, he will devote all his strength to the salvation of millions of people. All this lasted 40 days and nights. And the Lord heard this call. A miracle happened - the prisoner began to recover.
Was Dmitry Mikhailovich always opposed to the Soviet system?
Yes. He believed that she broke and mutilated people, robbing them of the foundation of morality. She deprived a person of absolutely everything, including, first of all, private property, which her husband considered immutable. He carried this pain throughout his life, until his death.
According to your stories, Panin was completely uncompromising, decisive and purposeful. Was it difficult to survive in the camp with such qualities?
Well, why? Panin was understood, appreciated, loved. He was incorruptible, kind, educated, merciful.
How did he react to the person who sold him to the NKVD? Why was Panin even arrested?
This happened in 1940 following a denunciation by a “friend” who worked with him at the Institute of Chemical Engineering. The informer's surname is Klimentyev. Dmitry Mikhailovich was too frank with him, including in conversations about Stalin. This “comrade” wrote about this. Friends warned: “Mitya, be careful, don’t forget yourself.” But it was already too late. The investigator charged the husband with phrases from the denunciation.
When Panin returned to Moscow after 16 years of camps and prisons, did he try to find the traitor?
No, he wouldn't do that. Dmitry was not a vindictive person. All he did was name the scoundrel in his book.
What do you think made Panin and Solzhenitsyn friends?
They met in the “sharashka”, in a special prison where arrested specialists and scientists worked. She was located not far from Ostankino. The prisoners were working there on a supernova telephony. A friendship arose between Panin and Solzhenitsyn. Panin told him about his other friend, Lev Kopelev, a talented scientist. The three prisoners became very friendly, despite fierce arguments and discussions that almost led to fights. Panin and Kopelev were people with completely opposite views. Lev Zinovievich was an ardent Marxist. And only Alexander Isaevich managed to keep them, as they say, in a conciliatory state.
Do you think “In the First Circle” is a completely documentary work?
No, it’s more like a fiction novel. Therefore, the author could do whatever he wanted with his hero. In particular, Solzhenitsyn claims that Sologdin (Panin) demanded freedom for his invention. In fact, it was not so; Dmitry Mikhailovich burned his discovery, transferred to paper. He was tired of being in this “prosperous sharashka” with rations and a warm bed. He was looking for new adventures for himself and knew that for destroying his important work he would be sent to a hard labor camp. Morally, Solzhenitsyn agreed with him. Panin was indeed sent to the death camp in Ekibastuz. There, the prisoners organized a strike, for participation in which Panin was sent even further to the Spassky camp. By the way, Solzhenitsyn was diagnosed with cancer at that time, which, thank God, did not lead him to his grave.
And when they were already free, did they meet?
We met, but not so regularly. And, of course, they continued to be friends. Before leaving for the West, Mitya met with Solzhenitsyn. They agreed on something confidentially. The husband promised to keep some secrets. And he did everything.
But he corresponded with Solzhenitsyn...
Of course, I still have about a hundred letters and notes from Alexander Isaevich. It is surprising that Dmitry Mikhailovich wrote his very last letter to his friend in the hospital literally three hours before his death. He was in a hurry to complete his work on space.
I helped him. He also hurried me to finish the translation he needed about quantum mechanics. Sensing that his days were numbered, the husband wanted to calmly explain the essence of his new engineering discovery. On the last day, when I was leaving the hospital after a visit, he asked me to come to him early in the morning. I wanted to dictate something. But on November 18, 1987, at 2 o’clock in the morning, his heart stopped... I sent a letter to Alexander Isaevich in America.
Your entire current life, as I see it, is dedicated to the memory of your husband and friend. What do you want to do so that your homeland knows as much as possible about his fate?
You know, this work, on the one hand, is sad, mournful, on the other it is the most important thing in life for me. I am preparing Panin’s works for publication, helping the “Friends of Panin” society formed here in Paris, preparing for a trip to Moscow to tell people about the great Russian scientist and thinker - a man of tragic but high destiny.
This is how Alexander Solzhenitsyn saw the engineer Sologdin (whose prototype was Dmitry Mikhailovich Panin) in the novel “In the First Circle.”
"Dmitry Sologdin admired this miracle with unclouded eyes. He stood next to the sawmill for sawing wood. He was wearing a work camp padded jacket over blue overalls, and his head, with the first gray streaks in his hair, was uncovered. He was an insignificant, powerless slave. He sat already 12 years, but due to the second camp term there was no end to prison in sight for him. [...] Sologdin went through the Cherdyn forests, Vorkuta mines, two investigations - six months and a year, with insomnia, exhaustion of strength and body juices. It has been a long time since his name and his future were trampled into the mud. His property was second-hand cotton trousers and a canvas work jacket, which were now kept in the storeroom in anticipation of worse times. He received 30 rubles a month for three kilograms of sugar, and not in cash. Breathe he had access to fresh air only at certain hours permitted by the prison authorities.
And there was unshakable peace in his soul. The eyes sparkled like those of a young man. The chest, wide open in the frost, heaved with the fullness of being.”
Nun Ekaterina (Malkova-Panina)
“Most people seek happiness in earthly goods and pleasures, but there are also people, though they are very few, who think and say: “And I count all things as loss for the sake of the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: to Him I am of all things.” refused, and I count everything as rubbish, that I might gain Christ” (Epistle to the Philippians of St. Paul the Apostle, 3:8).
Nun Catherine was one of these people. She selflessly served people, caring for the salvation of their souls, covering her great spiritual gifts with foolishness, and, in secret from people, she worked for the glory of God.
The essence of asceticism is in the words of the blessed nun Ekaterina * (Ekaterina Vasilievna Malkova Panina (05/15/1889, Sveaborg, Finland - 05/05/1968, cemetery of the Pyukhtitsa Holy Dormition Monastery): “Intentional stupidity is a sin, because a person does not use the gift of God, burying his talent in earth, like a lazy slave. I gave up my mind, of course, for the glory of God, subordinating all my will to Him... When I gave my mind to the Lord, my heart became wide and wide" (“Russian Pilgrim”, 1996. No. 13) It is no coincidence that Blessed Elder Elena, before her death on November 10, 1947, having lived in the monastery for about 60 years, told the sisters: “After me, Mother Catherine remains,” although at that time the latter lived, with the blessing of the abbess, in Tallinn-Nõmme.
There is plenty of evidence of Elder Catherine’s gift of foresight. From the memoirs of a nun of the Pukhtitsa Dormition Monastery: “...One day Mother Catherine and I went from the almshouse to the abbot’s, with Mother Angelina. Then Vladyka Sergius (Golubtsov, 1906-1982, Archbishop of Novgorod and Staraya Russia; author of many theological works), archbishop, and our Vladyka - the current His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II, then still Bishop of Tallinn and Estonia, recently appointed to this see - came to us. While we were walking to the abbesses, Mother Ekaterina asked me: “Who will we go to first for a blessing?” And again he repeats: “Who will we go to?... Based on rank and years, we must first approach Vladyka Sergius, but based on seniority, we must approach ours!” Then she added in a whisper: “Yes, we will go to His Holiness, we will go to His Holiness!”
Ekaterina Vasilievna Malkova Panina was accepted into the number of novices of the Pyukhtitsky Monastery on July 5, 1922, at the age of thirty-three. She loved to work, performed obediences, but everything worked out unusually for her. She often went barefoot, even in winter. She didn’t wear anything leather, she said: “You have to expose your skin, not someone else’s.”
It was often possible to observe how, during services in the temple, her fragile figure moved with silent steps, as if through the air, between the rows of worshipers: she would stand near one sister, then go to another.
“When I had just entered the monastery,” recalls Sister S., “I somehow had a great experience in my soul, I wanted to be alone and cry. But no matter where I tried to retire, Mother Ekaterina appeared next to me; I didn’t know her then. At first I didn’t pay attention to her constantly flowing (as if to myself) speech, I just tried my best to hide from her, but I couldn’t. Then I involuntarily paid attention to what she was saying, because I heard in her words a reminder of my past life. And I realized that she knows everything: both my past and present experiences, takes part in me and empathizes with me. Since then, I have been filled with gratitude and respect for her.”
She taught one young novice: “Live simply. Try to judge less. The reason for condemnation is due to inattentive life.” She instructed not to be proud, but to be humble and humble. She said that pride is the absorber of all virtues.
Sometimes she imposed a special fast on herself, explaining that she was going to die, and usually this was due to the death of one of her sisters. If she said that she was fasting because she was preparing to be tonsured into the mantle, it meant that someone was about to be tonsured.
At night she almost never slept, she prayed.
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She said about visiting pilgrims: “The pilgrims of God have come to the Mother of God!” People came to Mother Catherine in an endless stream. Many came to the monastery specifically to see her. Every year their number increased. Many letters were addressed to the abbess of the monastery with questions to Mother Catherine and requests to pray. Mother Catherine behaved differently with those who came to her: she spoke allegorically to some, and simply to others; She talked with some for a long time, and immediately sent others out with anger. Human souls were open to her. She immediately distributed what her admirers brought to her. She didn’t keep a penny of money, but she gave it away with great discretion.
One woman was very devoted to Mother Catherine, but she lived far away and rarely had the opportunity to come to Pyukhtitsa. One day her little son fell from the fifth floor. The boy was still breathing, but the bruises were so severe that doctors said he was unlikely to survive. The grief-stricken mother began to shout: “Mother Catherine, help! Help, Mother Catherine! - and the boy did not die, but after a month he recovered completely, so that the doctors marveled at how this could happen.
In the early 50s, one hieromonk served in the monastery. Mother Catherine wore a colored embroidered belt, like this hieromonk’s, and kept giving him no way: she would stand opposite during the service, “wonder,” and chatter “bububu.” The sisters did not understand that this was happening to her. And this hieromonk soon left for the world and got married, relinquishing his rank.
Many years in advance, Mother Catherine knew who would become His Holiness Patriarch. She predicted the Patriarchate for both Vladyka Pimen and Vladyka Alexy.
The Pukhtitsa sisters remember the mournful time of late 1961 - early 1962, when the threat of closure hung over the monastery. The bells have already stopped ringing: Mother Catherine took upon herself the feat. Before the beginning of Lent in 1962, she went into seclusion and remained in fasting and prayer until Easter. Not only the visitors, but also the sisters did not see her. The storm has passed.
Once, in a conversation with Sister E., Mother Catherine asked: “Do you see how the saints go to church?” - “No,” - “But I see. They arrive before people. They walk and walk, one after another: “And she began to hurry her sister: “Go, go quickly to the temple before the service begins.”
“One day in the winter of 1968, I went to see Mother Catherine,” recalls nun E. “She asked me: “Who is our abbess?” “Mother Varvara,” I answer. - “And the abbot?” - "Don't know". - “How come you don’t know who the abbot is? Who helps mother? I'm silent. “Clueless! This is who the abbot is!” - she said, pointing to the portrait of dear priest John of Kronstadt.
From the diary entries of the elder’s confessor: “Foolishness for Christ’s sake or deliberate stupidity. This question was well explained by Mother Catherine. “Stupidity is a sin,” she said, because a person does not use the gift of God, burying his talent in the ground, like a lazy slave.” And about herself she said: “I abandoned my mind, of course, for the glory of God, subordinating all my will to Him. She brought her life as a gift to God. And God gives man the grace-filled gift of higher reasoning and insight. The revelation of God is obtained through prayer.” In the funeral synodikon of Metropolitan Manuel (Lemeshevsky), above the name of Mother Catherine it was written: “Of those who did not want to be glorified.”
In April 1966, Archbishop Alexy of Tallinn and Estonia, now His Holiness the Patriarch, in the Pukhtitsa Monastery, privately, in the abbot's chambers, tonsured the novice of the monastery Ekaterina Malkova Panina into the mantle, leaving her former name.
Her state of health was sometimes worse, sometimes better, but she did not complain to anyone about anything, no one knew what was hurting her. In one of her last letters, mother wrote: “How easy it is to take on a feat and how difficult it is to complete it:” Only the Lord knew her suffering; outwardly she did not express it in any way.
Nun Ekaterina’s mother (Ekaterina Konstantinovna) and father (Vasily Vasilyevich) are buried at the Tallinn Alexander Nevsky cemetery.
Family of V.V. Malkov-Panin
(Family of Lieutenant General Malkov-Panin
moved to Tallinn in 1919)
– Vasily Vasilievich MalkovPanin(07/25/1859), nobleman, lieutenant general of the engineering service, buried 04/13/1948 at the Alexander Nevsky cemetery in Tallinn.
(During the Second World War, he served as a general for assignments under the inspector general for engineering, then was transferred to the position of chief manager of the 1st region in the rear of the Northwestern Front. Lieutenant General from December 6, 1916 (“for excellent diligent service and labor incurred during military actions"). The last award as a general of the imperial army was the Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd degree (order dated February 14, 1917). In the Republic of Estonia, he lived in Tallinn, was one of the leaders of the Russian National Union. In November 1935, he was elected treasurer of the union For more information about him, see “Biography 1. Russian figures in Estonia in the 20th century.” University of Tartu, National Archives of Estonia, Tartu, 2005.)
Ekaterina Konstantinovna MalkovaPanina (in maiden Pechatkina), buried at the Alexander Nevsky cemetery in Tallinn 04/04/1944.
Her father: Konstantin Petrovich Pechatkin, merchant of the 1st guild, manufacturing adviser, industrial engineer.
In 1896, the K.P. Pechatkin Partnership was founded in St. Petersburg to maintain the enterprises he inherited. heirs. Founders: widow Varvara Aleksandrovna Pechatkina, wife of retired guard lieutenant Claudia ZKONOPNITSGRABOVSKAYA, widow of senior naval mechanical engineer OLGA FEDOROVA, wife of military engineer colonel (later Lieutenant General V.V. Malkov Panin) EKATERINA MALKOVA - PANINA, wife of state councilor EVGENY BARSOV, titular councilor PETER PANIN (son of PECHATKINA ANNA KONSTANTINOVNA, 18661892, daughter of engineer-technologist manufacturing adviser KONSTANTIN PETROVICH PECHATKIN. Husband PANIN PETER NIKOLAEVICH 18601942. Died after the birth of her son VSEVOLOD from pneumonia) and his son VSEVOLOD PETROVICH PANIN.
PECHATKIN ALEXANDER VYACHESLAVOVYCH. In 1913, full partner of the company Pechatkina V.P. Partnership. heirs" in St. Petersburg, who owned a factory for the production of stationery. Son of the founder. Brother NIKOLAI VYACHESLAVOVICH had the same status.
Children of Vasily Vasilyevich and Ekaterina Konstantinovna Malkov Panin:
– Konstantin Vasilievich MalkovPanin. Second lieutenant, was listed as guards. Sapper battalion of the Life Guards Jaeger Regiment. Died as part of the shock battalion of the Guards. Jaeger Regiment 06/28/1917 (according to other sources - June 23). Buried in the crypt of the Church of St. Mironia (?) in St. Petersburg. (Based on materials from the newspaper “New Time”, 1914-1917).
Mikhail Vasilievich- twin brother of Konstantin, died of meningitis in the early 1900s. in Gatchina.
– Georgy Vasilievich MalkovPanin(born 1886, St. Petersburg - 1969, Rudnik near Syzran)
His son: Konstantin Georgievich MalkovPanin (born November 4, 1914, St. Petersburg)
From 1933 to 1934 served as a broker in his father's forestry company (Estonia) and traveled to England regarding the supply of materials. Studied at the Higher Institute of Technology in Darmstadt (Germany), Faculty of Chemistry. On June 22, 1941, he was arrested by the Gestapo and, after a year and a half investigation, sentenced to life in hard labor. In May 1945, he was liberated by units of the Red Army. From 1950 to 1979 - Head of the workshop at the Syzran oil shale processing plant. Honorary petrochemist, Excellent worker of the Ministry of Petroleum Refining Industry, awarded medals. Has an author's certificate for the new generator. Developed the production of new products (plasticizer, sulfanol, detergents, etc.).
Married. Two daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
MalkovaPanina Tatyana Konstantinovna . Tallinn. (According to Bayova) The “Drop of Milk” society was created in 1927 on the basis of the previously existing charitable organization “Russian Children”. The head of the society for many years was T. N. Malkova Panina. The society daily supplied more than two hundred children with milk, helped them with shoes, clothes, and holiday gifts. Funds to help poor children were obtained through charity evenings and thanks to support from abroad.
– Ekaterina Vasilievna MalkovaPanina(18895.05.1968, Tallinn), nun of the Holy Dormition Convent, buried in the monastery cemetery in Pyukhtitsy.
– Vasily Vasilievich MalkovPanin(18941942).
– Natalya Vasilievna(1998 - 1918, died of lobar pneumonia).
(Engineering troops in the battles for the Soviet Motherland. Tsirlin A.D., Biryukov P.I., Istomin V.P., Fedoseev E.N. - M.: Voenizdat, 1970.
On July 5 of the year, Catherine was accepted into the number of novices of the Pukhtitsa Monastery. From the first days of her life in the monastery, she began to behave strangely at times, acting like a fool. Soon she was transferred to the Gethsemane monastery, located thirty kilometers from the monastery.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Gethsemane monastery was liquidated, and its nuns returned to the monastery. In the year, Catherine was sent home to care for her sick elderly parents who lived in Tallinn. That same year, she buried her mother and remained to live with her father. In Tallinn, Catherine visited the courtyard of the Pukhtitsa Monastery and predicted (almost twenty years in advance) its closure.
In the year Catherine buried her father and returned to the monastery, after which she began to openly act as a fool.
The nuns recalled that she sometimes imposed a special fast on herself, explaining that she was going to die, and usually this was for the death of one of the sisters. If she said that she was fasting because she was preparing to be tonsured into the mantle, it meant that someone’s tonsure was about to take place.
Catherine was widely revered among the Orthodox people as having the gift of insight and healing. Numerous pilgrims flocked to her for advice and prayer.
In April of the year, she was tonsured into the mantle, leaving her former name, by Archbishop Alexy (Ridiger) of Tallinn and Estonia privately, in the abbot’s chambers of the Pukhtitsa Monastery.
In the last years of her life, the old woman rarely left the house and spent most of her time lying in bed. If she got up and unexpectedly appeared somewhere, then this was a big event and meant that something significant was about to happen in this house. According to the stories of the nuns, Mother Catherine was constantly ill, but outwardly she did not express her suffering in any way. In one of her last letters, the blessed one wrote: “How easy it is to take on a feat and how difficult it is to complete it...”.
The Holy Synod decided to canonize the nun Ekaterina (Malkov-Panina) for local veneration in the Pyukhtitsa Dormition Stavropegial Convent. The memory of Blessed Catherine, the Holy Fool for Christ's sake, is supposed to be celebrated on April 22 (May 5).
The honorable remains of Blessed Catherine, if found, the Synod decided to consider as holy relics and to give them due veneration. Icons for veneration will be painted for the newly glorified saint, according to the definition of the VII Ecumenical Council.
Ekaterina Malkov-Panina was born on May 15, 1889 in Finland, in the Sveaborg fortress, in the family of military engineer Vasily Vasilyevich Malkov-Panin. The family had six children. From an early age, the future saint was distinguished by her kindness and responsiveness, and loved to visit the holy monastery, located not far from their estate.
Until 1900, the family lived in Helsingfors (Helsinki), then moved to Gatchina. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Ekaterina studied at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Bestuzhev Courses, after which she worked at the Entomological Society in 1912-1913. In 1914, Ekaterina entered a nursing course and at the same time began working in free city hospitals, later worked in a rear hospital, then transferred to the flying detachment of the St. George community: the sisters of mercy of this detachment provided assistance to wounded soldiers who were carried out from the battlefield.
After a serious illness, Ekaterina got a job as a worker in the village of Bezabotnoye near St. Petersburg, and in 1919 she came to Estonia with her parents.
On July 5, 1922, Catherine was accepted into the number of novices of the Pukhtitsa Monastery. From the first days of her life in the monastery, she began to behave strangely at times, acting like a fool. Soon she was transferred to the Gethsemane monastery, located thirty kilometers from the monastery.
At the beginning of the Patriotic War, the Gethsemane monastery was liquidated, and its nuns returned to the monastery. In 1942, Catherine was sent home to care for her sick elderly parents who lived in Tallinn. That same year, she buried her mother and remained to live with her father. In Tallinn, Catherine visited the courtyard of the Pukhtitsa Monastery and predicted (almost twenty years in advance) its closure.
In 1947, Catherine buried her father and returned to the monastery, after which she began to openly act as a fool.
The nuns recalled that she sometimes imposed a special fast on herself, explaining that she was going to die, and usually this was for the death of one of the sisters. If she said that she was fasting because she was preparing to be tonsured into the mantle, it meant that someone’s tonsure was about to take place.
Catherine was widely revered among the Orthodox people as having the gift of insight and healing. Numerous pilgrims flocked to her for advice and prayer.
In April 1966, Archbishop Alexy of Tallinn and Estonia, in his private cell, in the abbot’s chambers of the Pyukhtitsa Monastery, tonsured a novice of the monastery, Catherine, into the mantle, leaving her former name.
In the last years of her life, the old woman rarely left the house and spent most of her time lying in bed. If she got up and unexpectedly appeared somewhere, then this was a big event and meant that something significant was about to happen in this house. According to the stories of the nuns, Mother Catherine was constantly ill, but outwardly she did not express her suffering in any way. In one of her last letters, the blessed one wrote: “How easy it is to take on a feat and how difficult it is to complete it...”
On May 5, 1968, on the celebration of the Myrrh-Bearing Women, Mother Catherine peacefully reposed in the Lord.
There is much convincing evidence of the holiness of the ascetic and the abundant gifts of grace that were manifested during her life and after death in obvious miracles, including healings (some of them are confirmed by medical documents).
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Awards: orders: St. Stanislav 3 tbsp. (1887), St. Anna 3 tbsp. (1891), St. Stanislav 2 tbsp. (1895), St. Anna 2 tbsp. (1898), St. Vladimir 3 tbsp. (1906), St. Stanislav 1 st. (1912), St. Anna 1 tbsp. (1915), St. Vladimir 2 tbsp. (14.2.1917).
Orthodox.
1877 – graduated from the 3rd Military Gymnasium in St. Petersburg. In service from 12.9.1877. Entered service (12.9.1877) in Engineering school .
– Graduated from Nikolaevsky Correctional Institution. Released as second lieutenant (8/8/1880) in 6sapb. Lieutenant (16.8.1884).
Graduated from Nikolaev IA in 1st category. Military engineer. Staff captain (12/30/1884).
10/3/1885 – was a member of the Sveaborg Fortress Engineering Department.
Captain (1888). He served in the Sveaborg fortress.
He was one of the staff officers assigned to the state at the disposal of the State Inspectorate. Lieutenant Colonel (Article 24.3.1896).
15.2.1896 – acting Clerk (from 9.3.1896 – Clerk) of the Finnish District Engineering Directorate. He took part in the opening of the Krasnoselsky two-year factory school (1897).
From August 13, 1898 he was a member of the State Institution.
Until 1900 he lived in Helsingfors (Helsinki), then moved to Gatchina. Colonel (1900).Developed a design for the chapel (1903).
From 4.8.1909 - general for assignments under the inspector general for engineering.
He was involved in the design of standard forts for the Urals (1909-10). Along with the projects of the generals ON THE. Buinitsky And K.I. Velichko his proposals were recommended by the SMI for implementation in the SD. Major General (12/6/1909). Provided assistance to local engineers in organizing the construction of a missile defense system in Vladivostok.
1911-17 – general for assignments under the inspector general for engineering (engineer general A.P. Vernander) and a member of the Technical Committee of the State Technical University, then the main manager of the work of the 1st region in the rear of the army of the North-Western Front. Lieutenant General(6.12.1916, for excellent and diligent service and labor incurred during hostilities).
1918 – after Estonia joined the USSR, he was mobilized by the Bolsheviks. The position of engineer with an office for 6 people was introduced under the Supreme Military Council. (3.1918).
4.3-24.7.1918 – inspector of engineers at the Headquarters of the Supreme Military Council. The office was reorganized into the Office of the Inspector of Engineers (5.1918).
Since 1919 - retired, emigrated and lived in Tallinn (Estonia).
One of the leaders of the Russian National Union in Estonia.
Alumni meeting participant Nikolaev PS and Nikolaevskaya IA in Estonia (1923).
11.1935 - was elected treasurer of the union.
Wife Ekaterina Konstantinovna, nee Pechatkina, daughter of Konstantin Petrovich, merchant of the 1st guild, owner of a factory in Krasnoe Selo. Children: twins: Konstantin (? – June 28, 1917) – participant in the First World War, second lieutenant, was listed in the Life Guards. Sapp, awarded the Arms of St. George (PAF 5.6.1917), died as part of the shock battalion of the Life Guards. Jaeger Regiment, buried in the crypt of the Church of St. Mironia in St. Petersburg and Mikhail (? - early 1900) - died of meningitis in Gatchina; Georgy (1886, St. Petersburg - 1969, Rudnik near Syzran) – industrial engineer, repressed, exiled to Siberia, author of the book “At the Brink of Two Epochs”; Ekaterina (1889 – 5.5.1968) – ; Vasily (11/1/1894, S.-P. - 12/8/1942) – ensign of the IV (1916), commander of the self-propelled units (for the Whites in the North-Western Army), wounded (11.1919) near the village of Niza, evacuated to Estonia, owner of the company , arrested by the NKVD (June 14, 1941) in Kuresaare, sentenced (June 24, 1942) to 5 years in labor camp, died in the city of Tavda, Sverdlovsk region; Natalya (1898 - 1918) - died of lobar pneumonia.
Since 1942 – couple Malkov-Panin was ill, nun Catherine was released from the monastery to care for her elderly parents.
He was buried (April 13, 1948) in Tallinn at the Alexander Nevsky Cemetery.
At the grave of the Malkov-Panins and the protodeacon of the St. Nicholas parish in Tallinn
Konstantin Uspensky (tombstone – on right).
Archpriest Oleg Vrona, rector of the St. Nicholas parish and
restored the graves IN AND. Petrov with service participants