Feodor Kuzmich
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Feodor Kuzmich (Russian: Фёдор Кузьмич), also Feodor Kozmich, Feodor of Tomsk, or Fomich[1] (died February 1, 1864, in Tomsk) was a Russian Orthodox starets. He has been canonized as a righteous saint by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1984[2].
There is a well-documented legend that claims that he was in fact Alexander I of Russia who faked his death in 1825 to become a hermit[3]. According to one account, he lived in a modest house with a garden; protected in a variety of ways by the Imperial Chancery, he received a visit from Alexander II in 1837 and his grave was visited by Nicholas II in 1893.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed., vol. 1, p. 559.
- ^ "Святой праведный старец Феодор Томский" (in Russian). http://pravoslavie.tomsk.ru/saints/23/. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
- ^ "Загадка Фёдора Кузьмича" (in Russian). http://www.pravoslavie.ru/jurnal/040309155034. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
- ^ Wacław Gąsiovowski, viscount de Busancy, Tragic Russia (Cassell, 1908), pp. 120-25.
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