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My first translation in this place was more right. Even an english source says so: http://www2.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/0708d.html
[[Image:Chistousov.jpg|thumb|Fr. Anatoly at the [[Michael Archangel church]] destroyed during fights]][[Image:Grozny1.jpg|thumb|Michael Archangel Church, in 90th]]'''Fr. Anatoly Chistousov''' (in world ''Anatoly Ivanovich Chistousov'', born 1953, Kirov — killed [[February 14]], 1996, village Old Achkhoy, Chechnya) was a [[priest ]] of [[Russian Orthodox Church]], a rector of Michael Archangel church Church of city of Grozny, martyred . He was [[martyr]]ed in Chechnya.
== Life in world ==
Father Anatoly Chistousov (full name is Anatoly Ivanovich Chistousov) was born in Kirov in 1953. He graduated from a military college of navigators of the Air Forces and pedagogical institute (in absentia). In the eighties the XX-th twentieth century he served as the an officer-tutor in one of military colleges of the city of Stavropol. In 1990 he became a parishener parishioner of a church Church of the Elevation of the Holy Cross in Stavropol just that had only recently been returned to believers after a few decades of Communism.
In 1993 he retired from of the army. The , becoming a major of a resevethe reserves.
On [[March 18]], 1994 , he was [[ordination|ordained]] a [[deacon]] by Metropolitan Gedeon (Dokukin) he was ordained a deacon.
On [[March, 20]], 1994 , he was ordained a [[priest]]. Before the his ordination he was asked by the metropolitan asked him: "And if you will be sent where it is restlessly, where it is dangerous, will you go?" He answered: "Where you will bless, Vladyko, there and I will go. No terrestrial circumstances are terrible for me"
== The serving Serving in Chechnya ==
On [[March 21]], 1994 , he was appointed to help [[protopriest ]] Peter Netsvetayev, the [[deanery|dean]] of orthodox Orthodox churches of in the Chechen Republic. Receiving the an appointment Father , Fr. Anatoly at once departed to for Grozny, where in at that time it had been was very dangerous.
In December 1994 in Grozny a large-scale war operation began. The temple appeared in epicentre of fightsthe fighting; one of the first shells desroyed destroyed the second floor of the church housebuilding, some shells got to hit the temple. But , but divine services proceeded already were conducted in the church cellar. Father Fr. Anatoly , in the a cassock , went fearlessly among bullets and shells to assist the soldiers, to the remaining inhabitants hiding who remained hidden in cellars of houses in the city, . He confessed, partakedpartook [[communion]], and [[baptism|baptized]]. His cassock was shot through by bullets in several places, but he again and again went to those who waited for him.
Soon after the beginning of war operations protopriest Peter Netsvetayev left the flared city and his flock. Without puzzlingquestioning, Fr. Anatoly, still the a beginning priest, headed the parish. The city was in on fire, bullets whished, terrible explosions of aviabombs aerial bombs sowed destructionsdestruction, but Fr. Anatoly continued to stay with his flock. He helped both Russians and Chechens as he could, shared the last that he had. Under his management the [[temple ]] in baptistery, the only remained premises remaining usable part of the church houseparish home, has been arranged. Services in the new newly arranged temple were made conducted constantly.
After the prisoners were divided from each other, Fr. Anatoly was exposed to torture, but did not surrender himself nor renounced his belief and, as a result, he was shot by bandits. He was martyred in [[February 14]], 1996. Fr. Sergius survived and was released after 160 days of captivity. He writes,<br/>"For the first time, I saw the sun after four months... We lived in the basements of destroyed buildings... People were held captive in a burrow, which was very narrow, and people couldn't stand or move. Later on, as federal troops were advancing, we were moved to the mountains and placed into blindages, where up to 100-130 people lived. This lasted for 3.5 months. The blindages were completely flooded with rains. The hostages were sittings there as at a temperature of zero; the Chechens took our clothes away. It is just a miracle that the other people and I survived under those awful conditions."<ref>Paul J. Murphy (2004). [http://books.google.com/books?id=_LXfR7wNWTUC&lpg= Links RA1-PA245&pg=RA1-PA245#v=onepage&q&f=false ''The wolves of Islam: Russia and the faces of Chechen terror.''] p. 245</ref> On [[April 29]], 2000 Federal Security Service of the Russia passed to Metr. [[Kyrill I (Gundyayev) of Moscow|Kyrill of Smolensk]], Chairman of the External Church Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, a selection of documents testifying to destiny of the priest of Michael Archangel Church, Anatoly Chistousov, abducted by the Chechen terrorists on [[January 29]], 1996. During the period, when a history of Fr. Anatoly remained unknown, the Church hierarchy attempted to obtain the freedom of the abducted priest, as well as other clergymen and the children of Church who had been captured in Chechnya. Eventually some prisoners found freedom. In other cases, regretfully, they had been executed by the gangsters and reposed in settlements of the righteous<ref>[http://www.mospat.ru/archive/nr004261.htm Priest Anatoly Chistousov took a martyr end in the chechen captivity]</ref>. Remains of Fr. Anatoly were exhumed only in July 2003 in mountains near Old Achkhoy<ref>[http://www.e-vestnik.ru/church/podvedeny_itogi_blagotvoritelnoy_2757/ Подведены итоги благотворительной акции в помощь семье священика Анатолия Чистоусова]</ref>. Now he has been buried on the Stavropol cemetry. His tomb is within the cemetery [[chapel]]. ==References==<references/> ==External links==
* [http://www.stavropol-eparhia.ru/personae/clergy/chistousov/ The biography on Stavropol diosese's web-site]
* [http://www.miloserdie.ru/index.php?ss=4&s=19&id=2984 The Cross on the tomb of fr. Anatoly Chistousov]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cjvTpaylFg Документальный фильм «Миротворцы» ВA Documentary Film by V.НосковNoskov "Peacemakers"]{{stub}}
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