Background
Shikin Vladimir Nikolaevich was born on the 25 of June 1947, in Novaya Yaroslavka village, Tambov Region, Russian Federation. His family lived in the Diveevo village, Nizhny Novgorod region.
Shikin Vladimir Nikolaevich was born on the 25 of June 1947, in Novaya Yaroslavka village, Tambov Region, Russian Federation. His family lived in the Diveevo village, Nizhny Novgorod region.
Graduated from the Voronezh assembly technical school and the faculty of journalism of Moscow State University.
A co-worker of newspaper “Trud” and other Moscow periodicals. For two years he taught in his native village history, literature, Russian language, then returned back to Moscow. In the 1980s he was a freelancer at the publishing house “GRE” (The Great Russian Encyclopedia) and the journal "Nature and Man". Since the fall of 1993, a priest, since January 2000, a hieromonk.
Since spring 1992, he lived with his family in the Diveevo village, Nizhny Novgorod region.