Ambartsumov biography

In addition to German, he knew Greek, Latin, English. A special tendency was fed to mathematics and physics. The rich spiritual and religious Christian traditions of parents from childhood have raised an unshakable faith in Vladimir. After his parents moved to Moscow in the end of the year, he studied at the Moscow Peter and Paul School at the Peter and Paul Lutheran Church.

After graduating from the school in the year, the young man entered the Physics and Mathematics Department of the Moscow Imperial University, where three semesters studied. In March, at the insistence of his mother, he moved to Germany to continue education at the Higher Polytechnic School, Berlin. Having lived in Berlin for about a year, Vladimir returned to Russia, feeling an insurmountable traction home.

In July, Vladimir again entered the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow Imperial University.

At the end of it, despite the slurry scientific potential, the talent of an outstanding physicist, Vladimir left research and devoted himself to serving God and missionary. During the years of study at the university, Vladimir became a member of the Christian student circle and moved from Lutheran to Baptism. The purpose of the Christian student movement was the preaching of the word of God among young people, and the main form of activity was the study of the gospel in small circles.

In the summer of the same go, a pedagogical institute opens in Samara, which almost immediately turned into an attractive center of Baptism. The Samara Congress of former circles, convened soon, decides to call experienced workers from Moscow to create new circles and strengthen movement. In the year, the young family of the Ambartsumovs with two children in their arms goes to Samara, where Vladimir goes back to business: he opens new circles, he conducts classes and invites lectures of famous theologians.

He began to work as an employee of the museum and became close to Vladimir Filimonovich Martsenkovsky, with the blessing of Patriarch Tikhon, who conducted active preaching among students of youth. The Civil War in Russia gave rise to the army of orphans, and Vladimir advocates the creation of a shelter in Samara. And still gives out Vladimir the Gospel in hospitals and prisons.

The religious zeal of Ambartsumov, apparently, did not like the authorities: they were taken under arrest in M ​​to M to be taken to Moscow, where, having kept a month, they are released, but ... on a subscription of a lower leave from the capital. After expeling abroad, the Marcinkovsky Ambarsumov heads the Russian student Christian movement. Annual congresses are held.

In the year, the movement itself is prohibited. Some circles of the dictatorship of the authorities obey and depart from the movement, others - among them Vladimir Ambartsumov - continue to act illegally. He earns a physicist as a physicist at the Moscow X -ray institute, and later - the secretary of the engineering section in the Union of Communications. The turning point in the life of Vladimir Ambartsumov was his acquaintance with Archpriest Valentin Sventsitsky, who had a decisive influence on his spiritual life.

Vladimir Ambarsumov resolutely and firmly goes into Orthodoxy, where ... there is a dynamics of spiritual life, a gradual climb up the stairs to God. ” And the awareness of this came to Ambartsumov in the years when the persecution of Orthodoxy intensified. Having become a parishioner of the Nikolsky temple on Ilyinka, Vladimir Ambartsumovich began to serve and read in the church, taking part in the organization of pilgrimages in Diveevo and Sarov.

The family, as before, contains funds from private lessons in the German language and general subjects. At the end of the year, according to the patronage of Fr. Valentina Ambartsumov enters the city of Glazov, where on December 4, in the Cathedral of Preobrazhensky Cathedral, he was ordained a deacon, and on December 11 - to the priest with the bishop of Izhevsky Viktor Ostrovidov and was determined by the service of the George Church of Glazov.

In the year, Archpriest Vladimir Ambartsumov was already the abbot of the church of St. A year after the closure of the temple about. Vladimir is left without a place. In the year, in church circles, a dispute flare up about the formula for obedience to the Soviet authorities, introduced by the temporary patriarchal synod. Vladimir, recognizing the hierarchical power of the Lord of Sergius, doubted the canonicality of his formula of obedience to the authorities.

After heavy thoughts in September of the same, he went beyond the state, returning to engineering. At the request of the Academy of Sciences, where he worked at that time, he is released and the term is considered conditional. In the year, with the beginning of mass passportation, he decreases to the city of Rossosh, where he lives and works. Having returned a year later to Moscow, he sets up at the Institute of Climatology in the village of Kuchino.

Then he moves closer to Moscow, to the village of Nikolo-Arkhangelskoye. From his meager funds, Vladimir Ambartsumov is hardly helping the families of priests arrested and ruined by the authorities. On the night of September 8 to 9, the Chekists are in Nikolo-Arkhangelskoye, 22, to Vladimir Ambartsumov with the order for search and arrest. They interrogate him in Butyrskaya prison.

Scientific employee of the Institute.Obukhov, the inventor-physicist Vladimir Ambartsumov blamed that he was “an active participant and organizer of the counter-revolutionary monarchical organization of churchmen-followers of the“ truly Orthodox Church ”, among his like-minded people carried out a large counter-revolutionary work aimed at the overthrow and restoration of the monarchical system in the USSR.” The verdict was carried out on November 5 at the Butovo training ground near Moscow.

Family the roots of the Ambartsum family go back to the Armenian surname Ambartsumyantz. Shemakhs, the Baku province, the philanthropist, the associate of the founder of the training of the deaf -mute in Russia Fedor Andreyevich Rau, the nephew of Sarkis Ambartsumyantz, who founded the first Lutheran community in Shemakh. The founder and owner of a private school for deaf -mute in the city of Mother - Karolina Andreevna Knobloch, German by birth, Lutheranka for religion.

Brothers and sisters.