Kyriakos and Victor Svinolupov

Kyriakos and Victor Svinolupov were two Russian monks of the cell of the Saints on Kapsala, one a schemamonk, the other a hieromonk, relatives; Kyriakos reposed in August 1891. They are venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Kyriakos, named Kirill Kalinovich Svinolupov in the world, was from the village of Svinukhi, Balashov district, Saratov province; while still young he was married by his parents against his will and submitted, but from then on he was in the family only in body, while in soul he was with God. He dreamed of becoming a monk. In 1863 he reached Athos and for three years looked for a place, living in various monasteries; in 1866 he bought for a thousand roubles a hut without a church on the land of Pantokrator Monastery and a year later built a church with his own hands. After Kyriakos's death, in August 1891, the brethren elected Father Victor elder of the cell. The cell received material help from Rossikon, and the brethren lived in stillness, devoting all their time to prayer and spiritual perfection. Victor was tonsured into the schema in 1904, keeping his name; the date of his death is not known, probably towards the end of the 1920s.