Gregory Lisyansky

Gregory Lisyansky was a Russian schemamonk of St Panteleimon Monastery, born in St Petersburg, the son of the famed navigator Yuri Fedorovich Lisyansky, a participant in the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe. He came to Athos in 1844. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Yuri Yurievich in the world, he received a good military education and became an officer, but the military career did not attract him, and after his father's death in 1837 he had the opportunity to withdraw. In 1843 he resigned and went to Jerusalem, then to Athos. At Rossikon he fell at the feet of Father Hieronymus and confessed at length; seeing his deep repentance, Hieronymus received him. He was soon tonsured into the mantle with the name Gregory. His obedience was the building of the church of St Mitrophan. Father Seleucus Trofimov writes that he was very zealous in obedience, loved to sing in the choir with a pleasant voice, cut off his own will completely and did nothing without a blessing; even at table, if he ate more than he should or drank water out of time, he confessed it. The biographer sets the father's glory, gained from men, beside the son's crown, received from God.