Education
In exile, was in the camps near Warsaw, in 1922 he worked in Danzig, then ended up in Berlin, studied theology and philosophy in Italy.
In exile, was in the camps near Warsaw, in 1922 he worked in Danzig, then ended up in Berlin, studied theology and philosophy in Italy.
In 1944 Kovalenko was ordained a priest. In Rome organized a small publishing house, which published pamphlets and books for Russian Pee Dee, attended the camp of Russian refugees and displaced persons, helped the children of Saint Helena Boarding for Russian girls in Rome, and has worked in a shelter for the Russian refugees in Rome, protested against the granting of the Italian Russian Government, in camps on the island of Lipari. At this time, Kovalenko met Russian writer Boris Shiryaev.
Since 1951 Kovalenko went to Argentina to help Archimandrite Nikolai Alekseev, where in the church of Saints Peter and Paul created a library.
Kovalenko has published articles in the Paris newspaper " Russian idea "in the Catholic press in the Russian-speaking Diaspora and published under the pseudonym Ochekov in Argentine newspaper " Foreign the Truth. " In 1958 due to ill health, he returned to Rome, underwent a serious operation, later worked as a librarian and taught Russian at "Russicum", died in Rome.