Background
Vladimir Shikin was born on June 25, 1947, in Novaya Yaroslavka village, Tambovskaya Oblast, Russian Federation. Since spring 1992, he lived with his family in the Diveevo village, Nizhny Novgorod region.
Vladimir Shikin was born on June 25, 1947, in Novaya Yaroslavka village, Tambovskaya Oblast, Russian Federation. Since spring 1992, he lived with his family in the Diveevo village, Nizhny Novgorod region.
Graduated from the Voronezh Assembly Technical School and the faculty of journalism of Moscow State University.
Vladimir Shikin was a co-worker of newspaper “Trud” and other Moscow periodicals. Later he left journalistic work and created a creative youth club. 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.
