Prelate and surgeon. Valentin Feliksovich Voyno-Yasenetsky
"I promise to do everything that depends on me, the rest is from God."
V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky
V.F. Voyno-Yasenetsky
Valentin Feliksovich was born 9 in May 1877 in the city of Kerch and belonged to the ancient but impoverished noble family of Voyno-Yasenetsky. Grandfather Valentine Feliksovich lived all his life in a remote village in the Mogilev province, and his son, Felix Stanislavovich, received a good education, moved to the city and opened his own pharmacy there. However, the enterprise did not bring much income, and two years later, Felix Stanislavovich got a job in the civil service, remaining on it until his death.
In the late eighties of the nineteenth century, the Voyno-Yasenetsky relocated to Kiev and settled on Khreshchatyk. By that time, their family consisted of seven people - a father, mother, two daughters and three sons. Mother Maria Dmitrievna, brought up in Orthodox traditions, was engaged in charity, and Catholic Felix Stanislavovich, being a quiet man, did not impose her beliefs on children. In his memoirs, Valentin Feliksovich wrote: "I did not receive a special religious upbringing, and if we talk about hereditary religiosity, then, most likely, I inherited it from an extremely pious father."
From a young age, Valentina showed remarkable ability to draw. Together with the gymnasium, he successfully graduated from the Kiev Art School, after which he submitted documents to the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. However, the young man did not have time to go there; he later wrote about this: “The attraction to painting was strong, but during the exams I wondered if my choice of life was correct. I found it wrong to do what I like. I had to do something that would benefit others. ” Taking documents from the Academy of Fine Arts, Valentin Feliksovich made an unsuccessful attempt to enroll in the medical faculty of Kiev University. The young man was asked to study in the natural faculty, but because of his dislike for chemistry and biology, he chose law school.
After studying only one year, Voyno-Yasenetsky suddenly left the university and returned to painting. Attempts to improve their skills led the young man to the private school of Heinrich Knirr, located in Munich. Taking a number of lessons from a famous German artist, Valentin Feliksovich returned to Kiev and began to earn a living by drawing ordinary people from life. However, the daily sufferings and diseases of common people he observed did not give Voyno-Yasenetsky a rest. He wrote in his memoirs: “I decided from youthful fervor that it was necessary to take up work that was practically useful for the common people as soon as possible. We walked thoughts about becoming a village teacher. In this mood, I went to the director of public schools. He turned out to be an insightful man and convinced me to enter the medical faculty. This in turn corresponded to my desire to be useful to people. However, there was a natural aversion to the sciences. ” Despite all the difficulties in 1898, Valentin Feliksovich became a student at the medical faculty of Kiev University. He studied surprisingly well, and his most favorite subject was anatomy: "The love of form and the ability to draw quite subtly turned into my love of anatomy ... From an artist-loser I turned into an artist in surgery." After graduating from university in the fall of 1903, Valentin Feliksovich, to everyone's surprise, announced his desire to work as a local district doctor. He said: "I studied medicine with only one purpose - to work a peasant, village doctor and help ordinary people all my life." But his desire to come true was not destined - the Russian-Japanese war began.
Together with the Red Cross medical team, a twenty-seven-year-old doctor at the end of March, 1904 went to the Far East. The detachment was located in the evacuation hospital in the city of Chita, where the practice of Voyno-Yasenetsky began. The head physician of the institution entrusted the surgical department to the young graduate and did not lose - the operations carried out by Valentin Feliksovich, despite their complexity, were flawless. Almost immediately, he began to operate on the joints, bones, skull, showing deep knowledge of topographic anatomy. A major event in the life of a novice doctor also happened in Chita - he got married. His wife, Anna Vasilievna, was the daughter of the estate manager in Ukraine and came to the Far East as a sister of mercy. At the end of 1904, young people were married in the Chita Church of Michael the Archangel, and some time later they moved to Simbirsk Governorate in the small district town of Ardatov, where Voyno-Yasenetsky was appointed head of the local hospital (all of whose staff, by the way, consisted of a paramedic and head) .
In Ardatov, a young doctor worked sixteen hours a day, combining medical activities with organizational and preventive measures in the zemstvo. However, despite the help of Anna Vasilyevna, very soon he felt that he was losing strength. Excessive congestion (in the county there were more than twenty thousand people) forced Valentin Feliksovich to leave the city and move to the Kursk province in the village of Verkhniy Lyubazh. The local hospital was not completed there yet, and Valentin Feliksovich had to take patients at home. By the way, there were a lot of sick people - the arrival of the doctor coincided with epidemics of typhoid, smallpox and measles. Very soon, rumors about the success of the young doctor spread so far that even patients from the adjacent Oryol province went to him.
In December, 1907 transferred Valentin Feliksovich to the city of Fatezh. Here his first child was born - son Michael. At the new site, the surgeon did not work long. One day, he refused to stop taking patients and go to the call of the police officer. It should be noted here that throughout his life, Valentin Feliksovich treated all his patients equally attentively and kindly, not paying attention to their position in society. However, the chairman of the council insisted on the dismissal of an independent doctor, and in reports “upstairs” called him a “revolutionary”.
Together with the family, Voyno-Yasenetsky donkey from his wife’s relatives in Ukraine in the city of Zolotonosha, where their daughter Elena was born. In October, a talented surgeon 1908 went to Moscow alone, and, coming to Peter Dyakonov, a prominent scientist and founder of the Surgery publication, expressed a desire to get a job at his clinic to collect material for a doctoral dissertation on regional anesthesia. After receiving permission, the next few months, Valentin Feliksovich worked hard, dissecting the bodies and honing the technique of regional anesthesia. He wrote to his relatives: “I will not leave Moscow until I take everything I need: knowledge and skills to work scientifically. As usual, I don’t know in the work of the measure and I’m already very tired. At the same time, the work is still enormous - for the thesis it is necessary to study French from scratch and disassemble about five hundred works in German and French. In addition, we will have to work a lot on doctoral exams. ”
Scientific work in the capital so strongly captured the doctor that he did not notice how he fell into the clutches of lack of money. In order to support his family, at the beginning of 1909, Valentin Feliksovich got a job as the head doctor of a hospital in the village of Romanovka, located in the Saratov province. In April, 1909 he arrived at a new place and was again in a difficult situation - in the area his medical site was about six hundred square kilometers with a population of over thirty thousand people. Simultaneously with his work, he managed to read scientific literature, to scrupulously write down the results of his research and publish in the journal Surgery. In addition, thanks to his efforts, a medical library was organized in the village. Valentin Feliksovich spent all his holidays in the capital, but the road to Moscow was too long, and in 1910, according to the petition, Voyno-Yasenetsky was transferred to the place of the chief doctor of the hospital in Pereslavl-Zalessky in the Vladimir province. Before he left, his second son, Alexei, was born, and in 1913, the third son, Valentin.
The skill of Voyno-Yasenetsky as a surgeon was beyond praise. It is known that he cut a strictly fixed number of pages in a book with a scalpel in a dispute, and not a single sheet more. In Romanovka, and then in Pereslavl-Zalessky, the doctor was one of the first in our country to perform the most complex operations on the stomach, biliary tract, intestines, kidneys, brain and heart. Especially masterly the surgeon owned the technique of eye operations, returning sight to many blind. And in 1915 in St. Petersburg a picture book of a doctor “Regional Anesthesia” was published, where he summarized the results of his research. For this, the University of Warsaw awarded him the Choinacki Prize - an award awarded to authors who pioneered new ways in medicine.
At 1916, Voyno-Yasenetsky defended his dissertation and became a doctor of medicine. The next year, 1917, became a turning point both in the life of the country and in the life of the doctor. He recalled in his memoirs: “At the beginning of the year, my wife’s sister came to us, having recently buried her young daughter who passed away from transient discharge. She brought with her a great misfortune - a quilt for her sick daughter. Sister Anya lived with us for only a couple of weeks, and soon after her departure, I found signs of pulmonary tuberculosis in my wife. ” In those days, doctors had the conviction that tuberculosis can be cured by climatic measures. Hearing about the competition for the post of chief doctor of the city hospital in Tashkent, Valentin Feliksovich immediately sent a request and received approval. In March, 1917 he and his family arrived in Tashkent. The abundance of fruits and vegetables, climate change temporarily improved the state of health of Anna Vasilyevna, allowing Valentin Feliksovich to fully devote himself to his beloved work. In addition to the worries of the chief doctor and intensive surgical activities, Voino-Yasenetsky spent a lot of time at the morgue, exploring ways of spreading purulent processes. There was a civil war in the country at that time, and there was no shortage of sick and wounded. It was necessary to operate the head doctor both day and night.
The end of 1918 - the beginning of 1919 was the most difficult time for Soviet power in Turkestan. The railway line passing through Orenburg, was seized by the White Cossacks, and the bread from Aktobe did not arrive. Hunger began in Tashkent, and poor nutrition did not fail to affect Anna Vasilyevna's health - she began to slowly fade away, and even the additional ration obtained by Valentin Feliksovich did not help. To top it off at the beginning of 1919, an anti-Bolshevik uprising took place in the city. It was crushed, and repression began to descend upon the townspeople. At this time, in the hospital of Valentin Feliksovich, a seriously wounded Cossack есаsaul was being treated, whom the head officer refused to give out in red. One of the workers of the hospital reported this, as a result of which Voyno-Yasenetsky was arrested. He was taken to the local railway workshop, where the “emergency troika” decided its court. For more than half a day, Valentin Feliksovich stayed there, awaiting his sentence. Only late in the evening a prominent member of the party, who knew the head doctor well, came to this place. Surprised at the sight of the famous surgeon, and learning about what happened, he handed the doctor a pass to the exit. After his release, Valentin Feliksovich returned to the department and, as if nothing had happened, ordered to prepare patients for the planned operations.
Soon, Anna Vasilyevna’s illness became so severe that she stopped getting out of bed. Valentin Feliksovich wrote: “She was on fire, completely lost sleep and suffered greatly. I spent the last thirteen nights at her bedside, and during the day I worked in the hospital ... Anya 1919, aged thirty-eight years old, died at the end of October. ” Valentin Feliksovich was very upset by her death, and the operating sister Sofia Veletskaya took care of the four children of the head physician.
In the middle of 1919, the troops of Ataman Dutov near Orenburg were defeated, and the blockade of the Turkestan Republic was lifted. The food situation in Tashkent immediately improved, and in mid-August, the Higher Regional Medical School opened. Voyno-Yasenetsky was appointed a teacher of anatomy in it. In May of the following year, a medical faculty was opened at the Turkestan State University by the decree of Lenin, which was headed by a large group of professors who arrived from Petrograd and Moscow. Faculty members of the medical school, in particular, Valentin Feliksovich, approved by the head of the department of topographic anatomy and operative surgery, also became faculty members.
Work at the doctor significantly increased. He enthusiastically conducted lectures and practical classes, and each of his working days was loaded to the limit. However, on Sunday the surgeon was left alone with himself and with his sad thoughts about his beloved friend who had left early. Over time, Valentin Feliksovich began to attend church more and more often and take part in religious debates. And in January, 1920 Voino-Yasenetsky, as an active parishioner and simply respected person in the city, was invited to the diocesan clergy congress. The doctor made a speech on it, after which Innocent - the Bishop of Tashkent and Turkestan - offered him to become a priest, and Valentine Feliksovich agreed. He wrote: “The deacon initiation event caused a huge sensation in Tashkent. A large group of medical students headed by a professor came to me. They could not appreciate, understand my act, since they themselves were far from religion. What would they understand if I said that seeing the carnivals that mocked our Lord, my heart screamed: "I can not be silent."
One day in February, 1920 Valentin Feliksovich came to the hospital in a cassock and with a cross hanging on his chest. Ignoring the shocked glances of the staff, he calmly walked into his office, changed into a white robe, and began work. So it has been since then - not reacting to the outrage and protests of individual students and staff, he continued his teaching and treatment activities, while serving and delivering sermons in the church. In addition, after a long break, Voyno-Yasenetsky decided to take up research again. In 1921, at a meeting of the Tashkent Medical Society, he made a report on the method of operations for abscesses of the liver that he developed. In cooperation with a number of leading bacteriologists, Voyno-Yasenetsky studied the mechanisms of the occurrence of suppurative processes. The research results allowed him in October 1922 at the I Congress of Medical Workers of the Republic of Turkestan to pronounce the prophetic words that "the bacteriology in the future will make most of the departments of operative surgery unnecessary." In this case, the famous doctor presented four reports on the methods of surgical treatment of tuberculosis and purulent inflammatory processes of costal cartilages, hand tendons, and knee joint. His unconventional decisions have caused stormy controversy among physicians.
In 1923, the persecution of the church sharply intensified - Patriarch Tikhon was arrested, and because of disagreements in the highest church circles, Bishop Innokenty left Tashkent. Soon after, Bishop Andrey (in the world Prince Ukhtomsky) proposed that Voyno-Yasenetsky become in the Turkestan region at the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. This choice was not made by chance. Over the past years, Valentin Feliksovich proved himself to be not only a remarkable unskilled surgeon, who has enormous prestige both among the authorities and the population, but also as a conscientious priest, who is well aware of the holy scripture. Under the name of Luke, the famous doctor was tonsured a monk, since, according to legend, the apostle Luke was a doctor and icon painter. At the end of May 1923 after the dedication, which took place in the city of Penjikent, Voyno-Yasenetsky became the Bishop of Turkestan and Tashkent. The high church office did not force Valentin Feliksovich to leave medicine; in one of his letters he wrote: “Do not try to divide the bishop and the surgeon in me. The image, divided into two, will be false. " Thus, Voyno-Yasenetsky still continued to work as the head doctor of the hospital, conducted many operations, headed the department at the medical institute and was engaged in scientific research. As for religious affairs, he devoted evenings and all Sundays.
There is a curious story about how the health commissioner who visited the city hospital in those days noticed a small icon hanging in the operating room and, of course, ordered it removed. In response, the head doctor left the hospital, saying that he would return only after the icon was put in place. After a couple of days, the wife of the party head, who needed an urgent and complex operation, was taken to the hospital. The leadership had to make concessions - the icon was withdrawn very quickly returned to its original place.
Voyno-Yasenetsky (right) and Bishop Innokenty
Despite such an incident, it was becoming more and more difficult to combine the church and medical activities at the same time with Valentin Feliksovich. In August, 1923, the newspaper Turkestan Pravda, published an article entitled "The Testament of the Bishop of Luke," in which Voino-Yasenetsky was harassed. Persecution began at the doctor, and he was soon arrested on charges of anti-Soviet activities. By the way, his attitude to the new government, Valentin Feliksovich, was well formulated in one letter: “During interrogations I was repeatedly asked:“ Who are you, our friend or enemy? ”I always answered:“ Both friend and enemy. If he were not a Christian, he would have become a communist. However, you are persecuting Christianity, and therefore, of course, I am not your friend. ”
In Yeniseisk, where Voyno-Yasenetsky was exiled, he continued to operate a lot and collect materials for the long-conceived “Sketches of Purulent Surgery”. The doctor was allowed to bring the results of his research, as well as write medical journals and newspapers. The doctor worked on his book at night - he simply did not have another time. By the end of 1923, an unusual situation had arisen regarding Valentin Feliksovich - Archbishop Luka lived in exile in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and the methods of treatment of the surgeon Voyno-Yasenetsky were actively distributed in our country and abroad. For three years, Valentin Feliksovich was in exile, and finally, in November, 1925 was rehabilitated. In Tashkent, he returned to 1926. After the doctor's arrest, his apartment was taken away, and the children and Sophia Veletskaya lived in a tiny room with two-story plank beds. The doctor found all his children healthy and happy. Voyno-Yasenetsky’s comrades and colleagues saved children from many misfortunes related to their father’s reference. It seems paradoxical, however, the religious father made no attempts to convert the children to the church, believing that the attitude to religion is a personal matter of the person. Subsequently, all the children of Voyno-Yasenetsky became physicians. Elena is a doctor-epidemiologist, Alexey is a doctor of biological sciences, Mikhail and Valentin are doctors of medical science. The grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the famous surgeon followed the same path.
Upon returning home, Valentine Feliksovich was forbidden to teach at the medical institute, work in a hospital, and perform the duties of a bishop. However, Valentine Feliksovich often repeated: “In life, the main thing is to do good. You can’t do much good, then try to do a little. ” The cathedral in Tashkent was destroyed by that time, and Voyno-Yasenetsky began serving as an ordinary priest in the church of St. Sergius of Radonezh, standing not far from his house on Teacherskaya Street, where he received patients, whose number was about four hundred a month. Staying true to his principles, he did not take money for treatment and lived very poorly. Fortunately, there were always young people around the doctor who voluntarily wanted to help and learn the art of medicine from him. It is known that Valentine Feliksovich gave them the task to search around the city and bring to it poor people who needed medical assistance. At the same time, Metropolitan Sergius repeatedly offered Voyno-Yasenetsky high church positions in various cities of the country. However, the doctor categorically refused them.
His work on the spiritual and physical healing of people was interrupted in August by 1929. In his own house, Professor Mikhailovsky, the head of the department of physiology at the Tashkent Medical Institute, who has been working on the problems of revitalizing the body, committed suicide with his head shot. His wife turned to Valentin Feliksovich with a request to organize a funeral according to Christian canons, which is possible for suicides only if they are insane. Voyno-Yasenetsky witnessed the professor’s insanity with a medical certificate, but soon a criminal case was initiated upon his death, and Mikhailovsky's relatives became the main suspects. In May, 1930 Voyno-Yasenetsky was arrested, and only a year later the extraordinary trio of the OGPU sentenced him to exile for three years for allegedly inciting Professor Mikhailovsky to suicide.
In August, the 1931 doctor arrived in the Northern Territory. First, he was serving a sentence in the ITL near the town of Kotlas, and then, as an exile, he was transferred to Arkhangelsk. In this city, he was allowed to practice medicine without surgery, which is why Valentin Feliksovich suffered greatly. He wrote home: “Surgery is a song that I can’t sing.” The link ended in November 1933, and in a short time, Voyno-Yasenetsky visited Moscow, Feodosia, again Arkhangelsk and Andijan. In the end, he returned to Tashkent and with his children settled in a small house on the shores of Salar.Valentin Feliksovich got a job as head of the recently opened department of purulent surgery at the local Institute for Emergency Care. In the spring of 1934, the doctor suffered a pappatachi fever, which gave rise to a complication — the retina of the left eye began to exfoliate. The operations did not work, and Valentin Feliksovich went blind in one eye. In the autumn of the same year, after long troubles, the doctor’s long-term dream finally came true - his “Essays on Purulent Surgery” came out, summarizing the author’s wealth of experience. There were no similar publications in the scientific world before. Professor Vladimir Levit wrote: “Possessing a light syllable and a good language, the author presents case histories in such a way as to give the impression of the presence of a patient nearby.” Despite a circulation of ten thousand copies at that time, the book quickly became a bibliographic rarity, firmly settled on the tables of doctors of various specialties.
In 1935, Voyno-Yasenetsky was invited to take the place of the head of the department of surgery at the Institute for Advanced Medical Studies, and in the winter of the same year he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science without a dissertation. Everything seemed to come to terms with the “double” work of Valentin Feliksovich. The whole corner of his work cabinet was occupied by icons, and before each operation he was baptized himself, baptized the operating sister, assistant, and the patient himself, regardless of his religion or nationality. Voyno-Yasenetsky worked, by the way, with a tremendous burden — he performed a church service in the early morning, lectured, performed operations and detours for the sick during the day, and went to church again in the evening. There were cases when he was summoned to the clinic during the service. In this case, Bishop Luka swiftly "reincarnated" in the doctor Voyno-Yasenetsky, and the further conduct of the service was entrusted to another priest.
It should be noted that, among other things, Voyno-Yasenetsky was an excellent speaker. There is a known case when he appeared in the Tashkent court as an expert surgeon in the "case of doctors". He was asked a provocative question: “Answer, pop and professor, how can you pray at night and cut people during the day?”. Valentin Feliksovich retorted: “I am cutting people for their healing, but in the name of what are you, a public prosecutor, cutting them?”. The hall burst out laughing, but the prosecution did not give up: “Have you seen your God?”. The doctor replied to this: “Indeed, I did not see God, but I operated a lot on the brain and never observed it in the cranial box of the mind. And the conscience also did not find there. ”
Valentin Feliksovich's quiet life lasted until the 1937 year. In mid-December, the doctor was once again arrested. Now he was accused of deliberate murders of patients during operations, as well as of espionage in favor of the Vatican. Despite long interrogations by the conveyor method (thirteen days without sleep), with legs swollen from long standing, Voyno-Yasenetsky refused to confess to the accusations imputed to him and to name the names of accomplices. Instead, the doctor went on a hunger strike that lasted eighteen days. However, the interrogations continued, and in a state of extreme exhaustion, the sixty-year-old surgeon was sent to a prison hospital. For four long years he spent on the cells and hospitals, not recognizing the baseless accusations made against him. The imprisonment ended with the third reference of the doctor in the Siberian village of Bolshaya Murta.
In this place, located a hundred kilometers from Krasnoyarsk, Voyno-Yasenetsky arrived in March 1940 and immediately got a job as a surgeon at a local hospital. He lived from hand to mouth, crammed into a closet. In the autumn of 1940, he was allowed to move to the city of Tomsk, and the local library gave him the opportunity to get acquainted with the latest literature on purulent surgery. It is worth noting that from the moment of arrest the name of the doctor was immediately deleted from official medicine. All “Essays of purulent surgery” from libraries were withdrawn, and in the jubilee collection “Twenty years of Tashkent Medical Institute”, published in 1939, the name Voyno-Yasenetsky was not mentioned once. Despite this, the doctors themselves continued to do operations according to his methods, and thousands of cured patients recalled with gratitude the kind doctor.
From the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Voyno-Yasenetsky literally “bombarded” the authorities of various ranks with letters asking them to give them the opportunity to treat the wounded. At the end of September, the exiled doctor 1941 was transferred to Krasnoyarsk and engaged in consulting work in numerous hospitals in the city. The authorities treated him wary - after all, the exiled priest. Valentin Feliksovich, on the other hand, worked selflessly - he taught young surgeons, operated a lot and very hard experienced every death. All the difficulties of recent years have not killed him inquisitive researcher. One of the first during the war, Voyno-Yasenetsky proposed measures for the early and radical treatment of osteomyelitis. His new book on the treatment of infected gunshot wounds to the joints, published in 1944, has become an indispensable guide for all Soviet surgeons. Thanks to Valentin Feliksovich, the thousands of wounded not only saved their lives, but also returned the possibility of independent movement.
The first years of the war showed well that religiosity can successfully be combined with civic courage and patriotism. In addition, by the end of 1944, the amount of defense contributions from the Russian Orthodox Church exceeded 150 million rubles. The attitude to religious cults, and most importantly, to the Orthodox Church in the government began to change, which immediately affected the position of Valentin Feliksovich - he was moved to a better apartment, provided with good food and clothing. In March 1943, the first church opened in Nikolaevka, and the exiled doctor was appointed bishop of Krasnoyarsk. Soon, the Holy Synod, equating the treatment of the wounded "to the heroic bishop's service", elevated Voino-Yasenetsky to the rank of archbishop. In early 1944, part of the evacuation hospitals were transferred from Krasnoyarsk to Tambov. Together with them went and Voino-Yasenetsky, who at the same time received a translation from the church line, becoming the head of the Tambov diocese. Under the leadership of the archbishop over the next few months, more than 250 thousand rubles were spent for the needs of the front spent on the construction of an air squadron named after Alexander Nevsky and tank columns to them. Dmitry Donskoy.
After the end of the war, despite deteriorating health and age, Valentin Feliksovich continued to work actively in the medical and religious arena. This is what an outstanding surgeon remembered to one of his contemporaries in those years: “... A lot of people gathered at the meeting. Everyone sat in places, and the presiding judge had already risen, announcing the title of the report. Suddenly both doors opened wide, and a huge man entered the hall. He was wearing glasses, his gray hair fell on his shoulders. White, lace beard lay on his chest. The lips were tightly compressed, and the big hands went over the black rosary. It was Valentin Feliksovich Voyno-Yasenetsky. ” In response to the request of the clergy of the Vatican for the pardon of the fascists sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials, the doctor wrote the article “Retribution happened”, sharply criticizing the Pope of Rome and saying: “Terrible people who have aimed at the extermination of Jews who starved, strangled millions Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians, really, if they are pardoned, will they be able to learn the truth? ”
In 1946, Voyno-Yasenetsky was awarded the Stalin Prize of the first degree of two hundred thousand rubles for the development of unique surgical methods of healing purulent wounds and diseases. After that, Valentin Feliksovich wrote to his relatives: “The words of God were fulfilled on me,“ I will glorify me in honor of me. ” I have never sought fame and never think about it at all. She has come, but I am indifferent to her. ” Almost immediately after receiving the award 130 thousand rubles, the doctor handed over to orphanages. It is curious that even becoming the archbishop, St. Luke dressed very simply, preferring to walk in the old patched robe. The letter of his daughter is well known: “Dad, unfortunately, is not well dressed again - an old canvas cassock and an even older cheap cassock. And he and he dressed for the journey to the Patriarch. All the higher clergy there were dressed beautifully, and the pope of all worse, just a shame ... ".
In May, 1946, Voyno-Yasenetsky, moved to the city of Simferopol, heavily destroyed by war. His health continued to deteriorate, and he was no longer able to perform long and complex operations. Nevertheless, he continued to carry out scientific work, conducted free admission of patients at home, advised in hospitals, conducted worship services, participated in public life. Interestingly, Valentin Feliksovich was a strict and demanding mentor. He often punished priests who did not behave inappropriately, and even deprived some of their dignity, did not tolerate subservience to the authorities and a formal attitude to ministry, strictly forbade the baptism of children with unbelieving godparents. In 1956, Valentine Feliksovich completely lost his sight. This drew a line under his medicine studies, and the last years of his life the archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea actively preached and dictated memoirs. The difficult, difficult, but always honest life of Voino-Yasenetsky ended on 11 July 1961. A huge number of people gathered at the funeral of a famous scientist and doctor, a faithful son of their Homeland, and in August 2000, Valentin Feliksovich was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in the meeting of the new martyrs and Russian confessors.
According to the materials of the sites http://foma.ru/ and http://www.opvr.ru/
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