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[[Image:10234.jpg|left|frame|Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) of Kiev and Galicia]]
Metropolitan Anthony was born Alexei Pavlovich Khrapovitsky on [[March 17]], 18031863, in Vatagino village of Kresteski district of Novgorod province, Russia. He reposed [[August 10]], 1936, in Sremsky Karlovtsi, Serbia. His parents were members of the Russian nobility. He was educated at St Petersburg, Russia, where he finished the 5th Classical Gymnasia with a gold medal. He owes the beginnings of his religious education to his mother and the influence of [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]], the reading of [[Church Fathers]] and the Lives of Saints as well as interest in the ideas of the [[slavophile]] movement. In his young years, he was interested by the work of V. S. [[Solovyev]], whom he later criticized for pro-[[Roman Catholic]] leanings. A final important influence was meeting St [[Nicholas of Japan|Nicholas]], the enlightener of Japan.
In 1881, despite the opposition of his father, Alexei enrolled in the [[St Petersburg Theological Academy]], where he became friends with M. M. Gribanovsky, the future [[Bishop]] of Tauria, who was first of academy students to become a [[monasticism|monastic]] after a 20-year hiatus in tonsurings. This friendship strengthened Alexei's desire to serve the Church as a learned [[monk]]. In his third year, he worked on his master's dissertation "Psychological data in favour of free will and moral responsibility" with the oversight of A. Ye. Svetilin.
