Background
Grigory Spiridonovich Petrov was born on January 25, 1866 in Yamburg, Russian Federation. In 1920 he emigrated to Serbia.
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Grigory Spiridonovich Petrov was born on January 25, 1866 in Yamburg, Russian Federation. In 1920 he emigrated to Serbia.
He studied at the Narva Gymnasium (Narva city, Estonia), then entered the St. Petersburg Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1886 and then entered the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, which he finished in 1891.
In December 1891 Petrov has ordained a priest. After 1891, he began to lecture in various gymnasiums (including such establishments as the Mikhailovsky Artillery School, the Page Corps, the Alexander Lyceum, the Polytechnic Institute). In 1893, he received the position of a teacher of religion and the church's Pastor at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School. Editor of the magazine "Drug trezvosti" (1900-1901) In 1902-1904 he also worked as a lecturer of theology at the Polytechnical Institute. In 1899-1917, he contributed to Russkoe Slovo newspaper.
In 1901-03, he took part in various religious and philosophic meetings. The same year following his critical letter addressed to Metropolitan Antony he was banned from his ministry and sent for discipline to the Cheremenetsky Monastery. He was defrocked in 1908 and consequently was banned from living in St. Petersburg.
Grigory Spiridonovich Petrov was a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church.
In 1907 Petrov was elected to the 2nd State Duma. Petrov welcomed the February Revolution of 1917, although his attitude towards the Bolshevik overturn was negative. He wrote books, brochures and articles where he advocated Christian socialism
The son of Grigory Petrov with the blessing of his father served in the Volunteer Army and in May 1919 died near Kerch. Just before the revolution, Petrov married again, and in 1919 his daughter of the second bed was born.
