Benjamin of Petrograd, born Vasily Pavlovich Kazansky, was a hieromartyr under Soviet anti-religious persecution, a bishop in the Russian Orthodox Church and eventually Metropolitan of Petrograd and G
Benjamin (Kazansky), Metropolitan of Petrograd and Gdov
Patriarch Tikhon and Metropolitan Benjamin
Metropolitan Benjamin addressing the Court during his 1922 show trial for anti-Soviet agitation.
Memorial portrait of St. Benjamin on the road to the place of mass executions in the "artillery range on Irinovka railway"
Tikhon of Moscow, born Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin, was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. On 5 November 1917 he was selected the 11th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, after a period of about 2
Official portrait, 1918
The consecration of Reginald Heber Weller as an Anglican bishop at St. Paul's Cathedral in the Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac, with Anthony Kozlowski of the Polish National Catholic Church and Tikhon of Moscow (along with his chaplains John Kochurov and Sevastijan Dabović) of the Russian Orthodox Church present[citation needed]
Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow near Donskoy Monastery, July 1923
Icon with reliquary of Saint Tikhon of Moscow in the Katholikon of the Monastery of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk in South Canaan, Pennsylvania