The name of the martyr Tatyana in our church history is associated with the celebration of the "student's day", which received the name - "Tatiana's Day"

The Holy Martyr Tatiana was born into a noble Roman family - her father was elected consul three times. He was a secret Christian and raised a daughter devoted to God and the Church. Having reached adulthood, Tatyana did not marry and gave all her strength to the Church. She was made a deaconess in one of the Roman churches and served God, caring for the sick and helping those in need in fasting and prayer. Tatyana had to crown her righteousness with the crown of martyrdom.

When sixteen-year-old Alexander Severus (222-235) began to rule Rome, all power was concentrated in the hands of Ulpian, the worst enemy and persecutor of Christians. Christian blood flowed like a river. Deaconess Tatyana was also captured. When she was brought to the temple of Apollo to force her to sacrifice to the idol, the saint prayed, and suddenly an earthquake occurred, the idol was blown to pieces, and part of the temple collapsed and crushed the priests and many pagans. The demon who lived in the idol fled with a cry from that place, while everyone saw a shadow sweeping through the air.

Then they began to beat the holy virgin, gouged out her eyes, but she endured everything courageously, praying for her tormentors that the Lord would open their spiritual eyes to them. And the Lord heeded the prayer of His servant. It was revealed to the executioners that four angels surrounded the saint and deflected blows from her, and they heard a Voice from heaven addressed to the holy martyr. All of them, eight people, believed in Christ and fell at the feet of Saint Tatiana, asking them to forgive their sin against her. For confessing themselves as Christians, they were tortured and executed, having received Baptism in blood.

The next day, Saint Tatiana was again given over to torment: they stripped her naked, beat her, began to cut her body with razors, and then instead of blood, milk flowed from the wounds and a fragrance spread in the air. The tormentors were exhausted and declared that someone invisible was beating them with iron sticks, nine of them died immediately. They threw the saint into prison, where she prayed all night and sang praises to the Lord with the angels. A new morning came, and Saint Tatiana was again brought to trial.

The amazed tormentors saw that after so many terrible torments she appeared completely healthy and even more radiant and beautiful than before. She was persuaded to make a sacrifice to the goddess Diana. The saint pretended to agree, and she was led to the temple. Saint Tatiana crossed herself and began to pray. Suddenly there was a deafening thunderclap, and lightning incinerated the idol, the victims and the priests.

The martyr was again cruelly tortured, and at night they again threw her into prison, and again the Angels of God appeared to her and healed her wounds. The next day Saint Tatiana was brought to the circus and a hungry lion was released on her; but the beast did not touch the saint and began meekly licking her feet. They wanted to drive the lion back into the cage, and then he tore one of the tormentors to pieces. Tatyana was thrown into the fire, but the fire did not harm the martyr either. The pagans, thinking that she was a sorceress, cut off her hair to deprive her of magical power, and locked her in the temple of Zeus. But the power of God cannot be taken away. On the third day the priests came, surrounded by a crowd, preparing to offer sacrifices. Having opened the temple, they saw an idol thrown into the dust and the holy martyr Tatyana, joyfully calling on the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

All tortures were exhausted, the saint was sentenced to death, and the courageous sufferer was beheaded with a sword. Together with her, as a Christian, the father of Saint Tatiana was also executed, having revealed to her the truths of the faith of Christ. It happened on January 12, 226.

Since the middle of the 18th century, the day of memory of the martyr Tatyana has been considered "student's day".

Troparion to the Holy Martyr Tatiana of Rome, tone 4

Your Lamb, Jesus, Tatyana / calls with a great voice: / I love you, my bridegroom / and, I seek you, I suffer / and I am crucified and buried for Your baptism / and suffer for Your sake, / as if I reign in You and die for You, / yes, and I live with you, / but accept me as an immaculate sacrifice, sacrificed to you with love: / with prayers, / like you are merciful, save our souls.

Kontakion, tone 4

You shone brightly in your suffering, martyr, / from your blood you are full of blood, / and like a red dove / you flew up to heaven, Tatiano. // The same pray for those who honor you.

magnificence

We magnify you, holy martyr Tatiano, and we honor your honest suffering, even though you suffered for Christ.

Since ancient times, people have tried to learn more about "their" saint, so that, through imitation of him, they themselves would approach the ideal. Today, on the eve of the day of St. Tatiana, let's talk about what we know about this name and the holy women who bore it.

So, she was called Tatyana ...

Interestingly, the name Tatiana, Tatyana, despite its Roman origin, is considered traditionally Russian. In the same, and in derivative forms, it is common in many Slavic countries, but in the English-speaking world until the end of the twentieth century it was extremely rare.

Of course, the main merit in popularizing this name belongs to Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, who immortalized "Tatyana's dear ideal" in the novel "Eugene Onegin". They say that before the appearance of this literary work, the name Tatiana was more of a peasant than a noble, but soon the situation changed radically. The name Tatyana has become almost the most popular female name in Russia.

In his novel, Pushkin not only created a captivating female image, but for centuries to come determined the model by which Russian women began to build their relationships with the opposite sex. But if the initiative of Tatiana Larina, her bold declaration of love to her chosen one, is relevant for the secular worldview, then the line of her behavior in the final part of the novel is more important for the Orthodox. In a strictly Christian spirit, her answer to Onegin, who seeks the love of not a girl, but a noble lady, a princess, is sustained: "But I am given to another; I will be faithful to him for a century."

Once having chosen her own path, Tatyana does not deviate from it, remaining faithful to what seems to her the most important. This character trait of Tatyana is probably the most valuable Christian virtue that the bearers of this name are endowed with. The strong-willed qualities of Tatyana also find their application in the secular field. Leafing through the pages of the press, we will be surprised how many singers, actresses and athletes in our Fatherland bear this name. But it is time to turn to church history, to those names that are sacred to every Christian.

The first in seniority should remember St. Tatiana of Rome. It is gratifying to see how this name returns to our daily life.

The doors of the Holy Tatian Church at Moscow State University are open, and all students know that Student's Day is Tatiana's Day, because it was on January 12 (according to the new style 25), 1755, on the day of memory of the holy martyr Tatiana, that Empress Elizaveta Petrovna signed the Decree on the foundation Moscow University. It is joyful to learn that churches are being opened at universities in various cities of Russia, and all of them are named in the name of the holy martyr Tatiana of Rome.

Tatyana's day - the power of faith and will

The life of St. Tatiana is full of various miracles, surprising and frightening, however, leaving them aside, let us turn to the two main moments of her life: her martyr's testimony of faith in Christ and her earthly feat.

Born into a noble Roman family of secret Christians, Tatiana from childhood chose the path that she consistently followed throughout her entire life. Refusing to marry, she gave all her strength to church service, was made a deaconess in one of the Roman churches, fasted, prayed, cared for the sick, helped the needy and thus served God.

Deaconess Tatiana was captured and, after much torment, put to death during the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus (222-235).

Tatyana's Day

For many centuries, the Orthodox Church honored only one Tatiana - Tatiana of Rome, but in the twentieth century everything changed. The persecution for the faith that swept across the country revealed to the world a host of holy martyrs Tatian, and the first of them was the most noble - the passion-bearer Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolaevna, daughter of Emperor Nicholas Alexandrovich and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

Second in seniority, she had the strongest will and firmness of character. In their memoirs, her contemporaries often emphasize that it was Tatyana Nikolaevna who occupied a dominant position among the rest of the royal children.
People who knew her noted in her "an exceptional propensity to establish order in life and a highly developed consciousness of duty." Remembering her, Baroness S.K. Buxhoeveden wrote: "She had a mixture of sincerity, straightforwardness and perseverance, a penchant for poetry and abstract ideas. She was closest to her mother and was a favorite of her and her father. Absolutely devoid of pride, she was always ready to abandon her plans if there was an opportunity to take a walk with her father, read to her mother, do everything that she was asked to do.

Following the example of her heavenly patroness, Grand Duchess Tatyana devoted most of her time and energy to helping those in need. So she initiated the creation in Russia of the "Committee of Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna for the provision of temporary assistance to victims of military disasters", which set itself the goal of helping people who fell into need due to military circumstances.

During the First World War, having passed the nursing exams, the senior princesses worked in the Tsarskoye Selo hospital. As a surgical sister of mercy, Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolaevna took part in complex operations and, when required, went to the infirmary every day, even on her name day.

Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolaevna, along with all her sisters and brother, was brutally murdered only because she was born into a royal family and remained faithful to her faith, her family and her Fatherland to the end.

Today, in the calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church, along with Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, there are nine more names of ascetics who testified their loyalty to Christ during the mass persecution of the Church in the 1930s.
The list of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia is growing from year to year, and perhaps soon we will witness the glorification of other Tatians.

According to the official calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church, we honor the memory of the Martyr Tatiana on October 8/21, Confessor Tatiana (Byakireva) on December 10/23; Martyr Tatyana (Gribkova) September 1/14; Martyr Tatiana (Grimblit) September 10/23, Martyr Tatiana (Egorova) December 10/23; martyrs (Tatiana Kushnir) in the Cathedral of the New Martyrs; Martyr Tatyana Fomicheva on November 20/December 3 and Martyr Tatyana (Chekmazova) on September 28/October 11.

About some we know quite a lot, about others only the most general information has come down to us. But there is something in common that unites all these great women who, as we believe, stand at the Throne of God near their heavenly patroness, St. Tatiana of Rome, and who repeated her feat centuries later here, on Russian soil.

The Monk Martyr Tatiana (Gribkova), 1879-1937), whose memory is celebrated in the Cathedral of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia and in the Cathedral of the Butovo New Martyrs, was born into a cab driver's family in the village of Shchukino, which has now become one of the Moscow districts.

In 1896, the girl entered the Kazan Golovinsky Convent, where she lived for almost thirty years, until the Bolsheviks closed the monastery. The novice Tatiana returned home and settled with her sister. In 1937, the young communist Kuznetsov, who rented a room in the Gribkovs' house, denounced Tatyana to the authorities, accusing her of not only "engaging in handicraft - quilting blankets", but also receiving a lot of people, including "monastic audience", "has good acquaintances with the higher clergy," and, quite a fantastic accusation, "she kept gold reserves, since in the first years of the revolution she collected gold to help Tsar Nicholas." Despite the testimony of a perjurer, the novice was not arrested immediately, but a little later. Tatiana denied all accusations during interrogations and pleaded not guilty to counter-revolutionary activities. However, the NKVD troika in the Moscow region sentenced her to death precisely for "anti-Soviet agitation." Novice Tatiana was shot at the Butovo training ground near Moscow and buried in an unknown common grave on September 14, 1937.

From the life of this saint, we can only get indirect information about her character and the life she lived. She spent many years in the monastery, and was deeply worried about everything that happened to the clergy and laity during the years of persecution. After leaving the devastated monastery, she tried to preserve the way of monastic life in the world and, in order not to embarrass her relatives, she continued to work at home. Having suffered on earth from the hardness of her neighbors, the novice Tatiana acquired a martyr's crown from the hands of the Savior.

We know much more about the martyr Tatiana (Grimblit).

Martyr Tatiana was born on December 14, 1903 in the city of Tomsk in the family of an employee, received a Christian upbringing in the family, and education in the Tomsk gymnasium. After the death of her father, having barely finished school herself, she went to work as a teacher in the children's colony "Keys".

In the difficult years of the civil war and repressions, she made a rule for herself almost all the money she earned, as well as what she managed to collect in the temples of the city of Tomsk, to exchange for food and things and transfer them to those prisoners of the Tomsk prison, whom no one else cared about. Tatiana found out from the administration which of the prisoners did not receive food parcels, and passed them on to those. So she met many prominent bishops and priests of the Russian Orthodox Church, who were languishing in the prisons of Siberia.

For helping the prisoners, Tatyana herself was repeatedly imprisoned on charges of counter-revolutionary activities. She was quickly released from prison, but such selfless activity annoyed the punishers more and more, and they began to collect information for her final arrest.

Deciding that she "has a connection with the counter-revolutionary element of the clergy," she was sent to Turkestan, but was soon released again. Tatyana Nikolaevna left for Moscow and settled near the church of St. Nicholas in Pyzhy, where she began to sing in the kliros. Returning from prison, she even more actively helped the suffering.

When Tatyana Nikolaevna went into exile again, she studied medicine right in the camp and began working as a paramedic. After an early release, she settled in the Vladimir region, worked in a hospital, continued to help prisoners and conduct active correspondence with them. These letters were sometimes the only consolation of her correspondents, who did not know how to thank Tatiana Nikolaevna for their support to the prisoners who remained in exile and were in prison, many of whom she now knew personally. “In the feat of mercy and help, the reliability and breadth of this help, she had no equal. In her heart, which contained Christ, no one was already cramped,” Abbot Damaskin (Orlovsky) writes about her.

In September 1937, the NKVD officers cut off this correspondence in mid-sentence - Tatiana Nikolaevna went to prison without having time to finish another letter.

The confession of the martyr Tatiana and the main words in which her whole life was concentrated was her answer to the interrogation: “I never conducted any anti-Soviet agitation anywhere. money to someone,” I replied: “You can spend money on beautiful clothes and a sweet piece, but I prefer to dress more modestly, eat simpler, and send the rest of the money to those in need.”

Tatyana Nikolaevna Grimblit was shot on September 23, 1937 and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo training ground near Moscow.

Tatiana Prokopievna Egorova, martyr Tatiana Kasimovskaya, was born on January 15, 1879 in the village of Giblitsy, Kasimovsky district, Ryazan province, into a poor peasant family. Tatiana Prokopievna did not learn to read and write, before the revolution she was engaged in the trade of manufactory with her parents and husband. In 1932, the Egorovs' farm was confiscated, and they themselves were expelled from the collective farm. My husband and his two sons had to leave to work in Moscow. They never came home again.

Tatyana Prokopyevna was arrested as an "active cleric" in November 1937.

As in all previous cases, the investigation tried in vain to convince Tatyana Prokopyevna that she was an active counter-revolutionary, without providing any evidence. The 58-year-old peasant woman denied all accusations, refused to sign the protocol, and uttered amazing words: "Jesus endured, and I will also endure and endure, I'm ready for anything."

"Troika" UNKVD in the Ryazan region sentenced Tatyana Prokopyevna Yegorova to death.

Martyr Tatiana (Tatyana Ignatievna Kushnir) was born in 1889 in the Chernigov province into a peasant family. She was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison and sent to Karaganda, in 1942, among a large group of believing women, they were shot by the verdict of the Karaganda regional court.

The novice Tatiana (Fomicheva) was born in 1897 into a peasant family in the village of Nadovrazhnoye, not far from the city of Istra near Moscow. At a fairly early age in 1916, she entered the monastery as a novice. When, after the revolution, the Borisoglebsky Monastery, where she was in obedience, was closed, she returned to her parents.

In 1931, the authorities began to persecute the monks and nuns of closed monasteries, because, even while living in the world, they tried to adhere to the monastic rules. So the OGPU created a "case" against the nuns of the Exaltation of the Cross Monastery in the Podolsk region. Several sisters did not leave the monastery, in the buildings of which the rest house was located, partly getting a job in this rest house, partly settling in neighboring villages and doing needlework. Everyone went to Ilyinsky Church in the village of Lemeshevo to pray. The choir at the temple also consisted of nuns and novices from closed monasteries. Among others, the novice Tatiana Fomicheva also sang in the choir.

In May 1931, the authorities arrested seventeen nuns and novices who had settled near the closed Holy Cross Monastery. The novice Tatiana was also in prison. She spent the period from 1931 to 1934 in a forced labor camp. Having been released, Tatiana settled in the village of Sheludkovo, Volokolamsk district, where she helped Archpriest Vladimir in the Trinity Church, was arrested with him in 1937, categorically refused to confirm the accusations of the investigators, not wanting to slander anyone. Father Vladimir was shot, novice Tatiana was sentenced to ten years in a forced labor camp. There her earthly life ended.

It is amazing with what courage these modest middle-aged peasant women, novices, who devoted their whole lives to helping their neighbors, toiled in difficult conditions of hunger and devastation, met the lies, slander, and threats thrown in their faces. They went to their death, firmly believing that they were going to meet Christ. God grant us, in our peaceful and calm time, to have at least a drop of such a sincere and firm faith.

Saints Tatiana, pray to God for us!

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