Nikolai Alexandrov (priest)
Russian Greek-Catholic priest
Father Nikolai Alexandrov (1884 – 29 May 1936) was a Russian Greek-Catholic priest. Under the religious vows he took the name Peter.
Biography
Nikolai Alexandrov was born in 1884 in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Technical School as an engineer-technologist. From 1912 he worked in Germany as an engineer in the company, Siemens-Schuckert. While in Germany Alexandrov converted to Catholicism from Russian Orthodoxy, his religion by birth. Since July 1913, after his return to Moscow he worked in city government, with the 1914 charge tramway workshops, with 1917 worked as an engineer. Nikolai Abrikosov joined the Greek Catholic community, helped the abbot came to his father, Vladimir Abrikosov. In 1918 he was arrested "in the case of the White Guard organization", but was released on 27 December. After that he became a monk taken the name Peter.
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