273
edits
Changes
→Early life
Fr. Makarii--nee Mikhail--was born 30 October 1792 in Viaz'ma (Smolensk Province), to Iakov and Agafiia Glukharev. He also had a younger brother, Aleksei.
His father being a priest, Mikhail studied at theological schools in Smolensk, then enrolled in the St. Petersburg Academy, where he studied from 1813 to 1817. At this time he met his future spiritual father, [[Filaret Philaret (Drozdov) of Moscow|Filaret]], later Metropolitan of Moscow.
The following year Makarii (as he was now called) was tonsured as a monk, ordained as a priest, and enrolled at the [[Lavra of the Caves]] in [[Kiev]]. In 1821 he transferred to Kostroma Seminary, where he received the rank of [[archimandrite]]. He left this position in 1824, eventually settling in a rural hermitage in [[Kursk]].
