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Anthony the Wanderer
Anthony the Wanderer (Russian: Странник Антоний; real name Anthony (Anton) Isaevich Petrov; c. 1834 — after 1911) was a Russian wanderer, widely known in Russia during the reigns of Emperors Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicholas II. Some contemporaries, and on the basis of their testimonies, later Soviet and Russian historians attributed to him the influence on the last Russian emperor.
Anthony the Wanderer collected funds for the construction of village churches and schools. However, there were confirmed several cases of entrusted to him money thefts, and fraud in building materials and payment for work; these thefts took place over a long period of time. To humble his body, Anthony wore two poods penance chains (verigi) and a heavy cane. Regardless of the weather or the season, he walked barefoot. Anthony was known as a righteous man, but his contemporaries were also aware of cases of drunkenness involving minors.
Anthony the Wanderer was closely acquainted with a number of prominent government officials, deputies and some representatives of the higher clergy. Candidate of historical sciences Andrei Tereshchuk found close similarities in the personality, appearance, outlook and biography of the Anthony the Wanderer and Grigory Rasputin.
Anthony Isaevich Petrov was born around 1834 in the village of Kolesnikovo, Yalutorovsky uyezd, Tobolsk province. It is known that he had one brother — Rodion Isaevich Petrov. The doctor of history, the expert in the religion history and relations between state and religion Sergey Firsov gave contradictory information about Petrov's social origin. On the one hand, he called him a merchant. On the other hand, he considered him a citizen. Anton was as a private in the Caucasus. After demobilization, he followed in his father's footsteps, and became a merchant. For a long time, like his father, he traded in Moscow in crafts and imported goods". It was also around this time when he got married. In that marriage he had two sons.
Candidates of historical sciences Andrei Tereshchuk and Sergei Firsov wrote that in his childhood years, having barely learned to read, Anthony preferred religious literature, especially hagiographies of saints. Already in his youth he devoted himself to God, to give up his fortune, to leave his family and to wander in holy places. Sergei Firsov and Andrey Tereshchuk noted that his conversion did not happen in his youth, but in his mature years, and the reason for it was the healing of a serious illness. Anthony vowed that if he recovered, he would dedicate his life to God. He gave up his former life and set out on a journey, giving his clothes and boots to the first beggar he met and taking on two pounds of weight. Regardless of the season, he went barefoot on his wanderings.
Elena Ermachkova, a candidate of history, provides other information about the childhood and youth of the wanderer. It is based on the documentary essay dedicated to the wanderer by the Russian writer Vladimir Korolenko. According to her data, also based on archival materials, Anthony was born not in 1834, but in 1850 in the family of a peasant from the village of Kolesnikovo Isaiah Petrov. The family was poor, sometimes starving. In addition to farming in the household was a carriage trade. Anthony was engaged in it in his youth. According to the memories of the villagers, he was cheerful, liked to go out, so he tried to free himself from the control of his father. Contemporaries claimed that the young man was always drunk on trips outside the village. Anthony began to steal. He established close communication "with settlers and gypsies". Finally, the thief was caught stealing. The judge sentenced the young man to 20 lashes. By the decision of the community, Anthony was exiled to the Siberian taiga, but he suddenly disappeared. A few years later the parish received a request "whether the village community has any objections to the transfer of the peasant Anton Isaevich Petrov to the citizens of Biysk". The villagers did not report about the past of a fellow villager and let him go "in peace".
After a while, Anthony returned to the village. In the spring of 1895 he was already "a good-looking and quiet wanderer Anthony". He arrived in a "200-ruble carriage" drawn by a trio of horses he owned. The girl sitting next to him was introduced as the nun Sister Anna. Candidate of historical sciences Andrei Tereshchuk and Doctor of historical sciences Sergei Firsov claimed that she was the daughter of a millionaire, but found the meaning of life in the service of a wanderer. Later it turned out that it was a resident of the Perm province Anna Efimovna Koshkina, who was not a nun and put on the cowl at the request of Petrov Firsov wrote that up to twenty women lived with Anthony, who, in his words, "found no satisfaction in their surroundings".
Anthony announced his desire to build a new church in the village. He asked the parishioners, who were at least 15 years old, to deliver to the construction 10 carts of sand, five thousand finished bricks, and three carts of firewood to burn the missing bricks. Each parishioner had to work for three days on the church site. Anthony promised to build a new school next to the church. According to the 1897 census, 714 men and 789 women lived in the village of Kolesnikovo. Before the three-story wooden two-classroom school was completed, the traveler offered to start classes in his own new two-story house. He kept his word. On March 20, 1898 the observer of the Tobolsk diocesan school board wrote in his report: "The premises of this school, built at the expense of the Tobolsk citizen Anton Isaevich Petrov, who calls himself the wanderer Anthony, were given a more dignified form this year by the efforts of the headmaster, Father Alexander Sedachev: the teacher's apartment was moved to the lower floor, and the upper floor, except for the dressing room, was turned into a classroom".
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Anthony the Wanderer
Anthony the Wanderer (Russian: Странник Антоний; real name Anthony (Anton) Isaevich Petrov; c. 1834 — after 1911) was a Russian wanderer, widely known in Russia during the reigns of Emperors Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicholas II. Some contemporaries, and on the basis of their testimonies, later Soviet and Russian historians attributed to him the influence on the last Russian emperor.
Anthony the Wanderer collected funds for the construction of village churches and schools. However, there were confirmed several cases of entrusted to him money thefts, and fraud in building materials and payment for work; these thefts took place over a long period of time. To humble his body, Anthony wore two poods penance chains (verigi) and a heavy cane. Regardless of the weather or the season, he walked barefoot. Anthony was known as a righteous man, but his contemporaries were also aware of cases of drunkenness involving minors.
Anthony the Wanderer was closely acquainted with a number of prominent government officials, deputies and some representatives of the higher clergy. Candidate of historical sciences Andrei Tereshchuk found close similarities in the personality, appearance, outlook and biography of the Anthony the Wanderer and Grigory Rasputin.
Anthony Isaevich Petrov was born around 1834 in the village of Kolesnikovo, Yalutorovsky uyezd, Tobolsk province. It is known that he had one brother — Rodion Isaevich Petrov. The doctor of history, the expert in the religion history and relations between state and religion Sergey Firsov gave contradictory information about Petrov's social origin. On the one hand, he called him a merchant. On the other hand, he considered him a citizen. Anton was as a private in the Caucasus. After demobilization, he followed in his father's footsteps, and became a merchant. For a long time, like his father, he traded in Moscow in crafts and imported goods". It was also around this time when he got married. In that marriage he had two sons.
Candidates of historical sciences Andrei Tereshchuk and Sergei Firsov wrote that in his childhood years, having barely learned to read, Anthony preferred religious literature, especially hagiographies of saints. Already in his youth he devoted himself to God, to give up his fortune, to leave his family and to wander in holy places. Sergei Firsov and Andrey Tereshchuk noted that his conversion did not happen in his youth, but in his mature years, and the reason for it was the healing of a serious illness. Anthony vowed that if he recovered, he would dedicate his life to God. He gave up his former life and set out on a journey, giving his clothes and boots to the first beggar he met and taking on two pounds of weight. Regardless of the season, he went barefoot on his wanderings.
Elena Ermachkova, a candidate of history, provides other information about the childhood and youth of the wanderer. It is based on the documentary essay dedicated to the wanderer by the Russian writer Vladimir Korolenko. According to her data, also based on archival materials, Anthony was born not in 1834, but in 1850 in the family of a peasant from the village of Kolesnikovo Isaiah Petrov. The family was poor, sometimes starving. In addition to farming in the household was a carriage trade. Anthony was engaged in it in his youth. According to the memories of the villagers, he was cheerful, liked to go out, so he tried to free himself from the control of his father. Contemporaries claimed that the young man was always drunk on trips outside the village. Anthony began to steal. He established close communication "with settlers and gypsies". Finally, the thief was caught stealing. The judge sentenced the young man to 20 lashes. By the decision of the community, Anthony was exiled to the Siberian taiga, but he suddenly disappeared. A few years later the parish received a request "whether the village community has any objections to the transfer of the peasant Anton Isaevich Petrov to the citizens of Biysk". The villagers did not report about the past of a fellow villager and let him go "in peace".
After a while, Anthony returned to the village. In the spring of 1895 he was already "a good-looking and quiet wanderer Anthony". He arrived in a "200-ruble carriage" drawn by a trio of horses he owned. The girl sitting next to him was introduced as the nun Sister Anna. Candidate of historical sciences Andrei Tereshchuk and Doctor of historical sciences Sergei Firsov claimed that she was the daughter of a millionaire, but found the meaning of life in the service of a wanderer. Later it turned out that it was a resident of the Perm province Anna Efimovna Koshkina, who was not a nun and put on the cowl at the request of Petrov Firsov wrote that up to twenty women lived with Anthony, who, in his words, "found no satisfaction in their surroundings".
Anthony announced his desire to build a new church in the village. He asked the parishioners, who were at least 15 years old, to deliver to the construction 10 carts of sand, five thousand finished bricks, and three carts of firewood to burn the missing bricks. Each parishioner had to work for three days on the church site. Anthony promised to build a new school next to the church. According to the 1897 census, 714 men and 789 women lived in the village of Kolesnikovo. Before the three-story wooden two-classroom school was completed, the traveler offered to start classes in his own new two-story house. He kept his word. On March 20, 1898 the observer of the Tobolsk diocesan school board wrote in his report: "The premises of this school, built at the expense of the Tobolsk citizen Anton Isaevich Petrov, who calls himself the wanderer Anthony, were given a more dignified form this year by the efforts of the headmaster, Father Alexander Sedachev: the teacher's apartment was moved to the lower floor, and the upper floor, except for the dressing room, was turned into a classroom".