E Romberg biography

His great -grandfather, Theodore Romberg, was the midshipman of the Northern Fleet, participated in the expedition of Wrangel, and on the island of Wrangel there is a cape bearing his name - Cape Rommberg. During the Civil War, he was Lieutenant Colonel of the White Army in the Drozdovsky regiment. After evacuation, he worked in Gallipoli with a decorator in regimental and city theaters.

From Berlin, their path lay in Prague, where they lived with relatives for some time, and then in Carpathian Rus', in the village. Then his mother received a job in the company of the Red Cross in the village. After some time, their family moves to the village. From there in the year, Boris was sent to a school in Moravskoye Trzhebovo. His teacher was General Balabin.

Here he served in a school church. One year he went to school in Prague and one in Uzhgorod. When the family lived in Carpathian Rus', Boris often visited the monasteries - Nikolaevsky in the Iza, Preobrazhensky in the terebla, often talked with the clergy, because his father lived in church life, accepted orders and wrote icons. For one year, Boris went to the agricultural school in Slovakia and there, Father Mikhail Dikhik, seeing his piety and spiritual aspirations, advised him to visit the male monastery in Ladomirovo, and sixteen -year -old young men, in May he first got into this monastery.

Here, Archimandrite Serafim Ivanov and Father Savva Struve received him with love and care. The monastery life was so consonant with his spiritual moods that he left the thought of returning home and remained in the monastery. According to his desire, the monastery authorities, seeing and understanding his inner state, wanted to put him in a cash. Suddenly, some obstacle to the mother arose, but apparently, Savva’s father found quite convincing words that reassured his motherly excitement and in the next letter she blessed him with this step: "Dear Borya, I am very glad for you that you saw the archbishop of Vitaly Maksimenko - ed.

I allow you to ask him for a blessing for a cassock." The novice of Boris, as recorded in his track record, carried all obedience heated on him, but his main thing was obedience in the printing house. In the Holy Week before the Epiphany, January 16, the novice Boris gives a petition to the spiritual cathedral of the fraternity: "Wanting among the foreigners to serve God and the Russian Church in the typographic and missionary fraternity of the Monk Job Pochaevsky, I ask the spiritual cathedral to put me into a grazor." Resolutions are notable for this petition.

Archimandrite Seraphim wrote: "The spiritual cathedral welcomes the decision of the young fellow, but believes to postpone it for one year, in view of the fact that in the fraternity he works only a year and a half and has a tender of age, but by the discretion of the Lord, because according to spiritual qualities, the archbishop of Vitaliy was laconic. He wrote: he wrote, who would take the dominance of the Lord from the youth.

God will strengthen. "In the future, a lot united them, and they even lived in one cell for a long time. Next year, in the first week of Great Lent, the lifting novice Sergius, again with his father Vitaliy, was tonsured in a small schema with his father. As before, Father Sergius continued to obey the printing house and the printer. The Brotherhood of the Great Collection, the shoulder gospel, the Trebnik, the Psalter and other liturgical books were printed.

The main printer at that time was the future archimandrite Anthony Yamshchikov, who died in the year at the age of the year. From the first day of the war, which began on the day of all the saints, in the land of the Russian shotting, prayer services to all domestic saints were held in the monastery daily. The only hierodeacon at that time was Father Sergius. On the day of memory of the worldwater, the brethren arrived in Geneva, where they stayed a year and a half.

At this time, Father Sergius participated in the worship of Metropolitan Anastasia Gribanovsky, who arrived here for the construction of the general church affairs of the Russian abroad, violated by the war. Part of the brethren lived in the house of one Russian woman who handed them over her house, and she moved to the hotel. From the United States, Archbishop Vitaly sent material assistance received from the sale of books printed back in Ladomirovo.

Like the senior hierodeacon, Father Sergius summed up Archimandrites Serafim Ivanov and Nafanail Lviv during their bishop's Hirotony. In the year, Father Sergius carried out a great preparatory work to consecrate the newly built cathedral church of the monastery. He prepared all the necessary components for the world. The consecration of the world was committed by Metropolitan Anastasius on the feast of the introduction to the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

And here Father Sergius continues a typographic business that has begun in his youth. At the same time, Archbishop Vitaliy, Kelarm Enonoma of the Monastery.As part of the first issue of the year, Father Sergius receives a spiritual education in the newly built in the Holy Trinity Seminary among the graduates were the future Metropolitan Lavr and other bishops of the Russian foreign church.

From a year to his death in the year, Father Sergius taught the Liturgics course in the seminary.

In the year, he was erected to the igumen’s rank, and in the year - to the rank of Archimandrite. He was an ecclesiaarsch of the monastery and the dean of the Syracuse-Troitan diocese. If necessary, he traveled for worship and holding meetings to various parishes of the diocese. In the year, despite the various bodily ailments, he visited the places where he began his spiritual path in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, prayed on the graves of his mentors and spiritual brothers.

May the Lord give the current inhabitants of the Holy Trinity Monastery the forces to go through his monastic path for the good of Russian Orthodox people and the Russian Church, as Archimandrite Sergius wrote in his petition about the adoption of the monks in youth. According to the article V.