Pavel Adelheim during his life went through severe trials. His close relatives were repressed. The future priest spent part of his youth in deportation in Kazakhstan, where his mother lived after her release. Adelheim chose the ministry of the church as the work of his life. He is known for his criticism of church leadership and good deeds aimed at alleviating the suffering of ordinary people.
From the biography of Pavel Anatolyevich Adelheim
The future priest and church journalist was born on August 1, 1938 in Rostov-on-Don. The fate of the relatives of Adelheim was tragic. Pavel Anatolyevich’s grandfather came from Russian Germans. He was educated in Belgium and owned estates near Kiev. In 1938, my grandfather was shot.
Adelheim's father was a poet and artist. He was also shot, but already in 1942. Mom was arrested and convicted after the war. After serving her sentence, she was exiled to Kazakhstan. When his mother was arrested, Pavel lived in an orphanage, and then - in a forced settlement with his mother. A childhood filled with severe trials could not but influence the formation of the personality of the future priest.
On the path of spiritual quest
Subsequently, Paul moved to relatives in Kiev. In 1954, he became a novice of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. When the young man turned 18, he entered the theological seminary in Kiev, but three years later he was expelled for political reasons. A little later he was ordained deacon to the Tashkent Cathedral.
In 1964, Pavel Anatolyevich graduated from the capital's theological seminary and became a priest in the city of Kagan (Uzbekistan).
In 1969, Adelheim was arrested. He was accused of distributing samizdat, which contained theses that defamed the Soviet system. During the year, Pavel Anatolyevich was in the internal prison of the KGB (Bukhara). He was released in 1972.
