Ivan Kovsharov Orthodox Icon
The lawyer Ivan Kovsharov and Archimandrite Sergius played an important role in the events surrounding the Petrograd Trial, which took place in 1922. At that time, Ivan Kovsharov held the position of legal adviser to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra and was commissar for diocesan affairs, which meant that his task was to represent and defend the general rights and interests of the Petrograd diocese. He was also a member of the board of the society, which advocated a compromise between the Church and the authorities in matters of famine relief, based on voluntary donations for this purpose.
The destinies of Ivan Kovsharov and Archimandrite Sergius crossed on March 6, 1922, when they and Metropolitan Veniamin of Petrograd and Ladoga, as well as Archimandrite Sergius and Yuri Novitsky, came to the Petrograd Council for negotiations. The Metropolitan presented a statement in which he emphasized several logical points:
1) The Church is ready to voluntarily donate all its property to save the starving people in the Volga region;
2) However, this should be seen as a voluntary sacrifice of the faithful, not a forced withdrawal;
3) To ensure the transparency of the process, the Metropolitan proposed to allow representatives from the believers to observe and control the realization of the seized property.
However, the Petrograd Soviet arrested all four “negotiators” under the pretext of resisting the seizure of church property.
As a result, in the summer of 1922 they were sentenced to capital punishment, and on the night of August 12-13 the sentence was carried out. Many years later, after the fall of Soviet power, in 1990 the sentence against Metropolitan Veniamin, Archimandrite Sergius, lawyer Kovsharov and Professor Novitsky was overturned and they were rehabilitated. In 1992, all four were numbered among the holy martyrs.
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