Kirill Abramov

Kirill Abramov was a Russian hieroschemamonk, born on 26 February 1845 in the stanitsa of Melekhovskaya in the Don region, who died on 15 February 1915 in Moscow. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Kapiton Illarionovich in the world, he attended the local people's school, then the district school at Novocherkassk, which he finished in 1860, at fifteen. Raised in a deeply religious family, endowed by God with brilliant abilities, he sought spiritual food from childhood. He came to Athos and made several journeys to Russia on the monastery's business. On one of them he fell gravely ill and could not return to his monasteries. He died on 15 February 1915 in Moscow and was buried in the cemetery of the Protection church, belonging to the Alexeyevsky convent.