Background
Mikhail Vasilyevich Gratsiansky was born in 1870. He was the son of a priest.
Mikhail Vasilyevich Gratsiansky was born in 1870. He was the son of a priest.
Graduated from the Ryazan Ecclesiastical Seminary (1891), Moscow Ecclesiastical Academy (1895). Vladimirsky (1895-1903) and Voronezh (1903-1910) diocesan missionary.
Priest in the village of Verkhny Karachan Novokhopersky Uyezd (1910-1913), the Assumption Church in Voronezh (since 1913). Compiler of a valuable collection of books, handwritten and pictorial materials on the issues of schism and sectarianism, theology, church and civil history (about 1,000 names).