Denasii Yushkov

Denasii Yushkov was a Russian schemamonk, born in 1859 at Sarapul, Vyatka province, librarian and chronicler of St Panteleimon Monastery and author of notes about Athos. He reposed on 14 June 1928, two days after receiving the schema. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Dmitry Ivanovich in the world, the son of Faina, he came to Athos in 1882, aged twenty-⁠three, and on 15 March 1885 was tonsured into the mantle. He worked in the chancery and library. In 1889, shortly before his death, the abbot Macarius blessed him to walk all over Athos and to write down whatever he found important. For more than thirty years, almost to his death, he did so and left descriptions of cells and elders in all corners of the Mountain, which have preserved the memory of many of the hermit fathers in this book. He printed articles in the newspaper Church Gazette under the pseudonym The Athonite, edited the journal The Soul-⁠Profiting Interlocutor and wrote the monastery's chronicle for 1918 to 1927. He corresponded with the librarian Matthew (Olshansky).