Feodosii Nikolskii

Feodosii Nikolskii was a Russian schemahierodeacon, born on 13 June 1841 at Tula, a priest's son, a monk of the Pochaev Lavra and later a hermit on Athos, in the Thebaid. He reposed on 28 October 1918. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Fyodor Vasilievich in the world, he spent his childhood in the village of Rykhotka and attended the seminary at Tula, but could not finish because of illness. After recovering, with his parents' blessing, he entered the Dormition Lavra of Pochaev, where he took the monastic habit with the name Feofan and was ordained. After almost twenty-⁠five years in the Lavra he went to Athos to continue his struggle. He never left his hut in the Thebaid again and by a life full of ascetic labours opened for himself the road to the Kingdom. Only after twenty years of seclusion, because of a grave illness, did he move to the monastery hospital, where he reposed on 28 October 1918.