Vladislav Popov

Vladislav Popov was a Russian schemamonk, editor of the books of St Panteleimon Monastery, born in 1849 at Zhizdra, Kaluga province. He reposed in 1918. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Vasily Nikolaevich in the world, the son of Nikolai and Darya, he studied at the gymnasium in Kaluga and at the Imperial University of Moscow. In Moscow he worked at the publishing house of I. Efimov, where he was given the editing of books printed by the Russian St Panteleimon Monastery. Knowing closely the monks of the Moscow metochion, he was impressed by the depth of their spirituality and went to Athos. His friend and publishing colleague Father Vladimir (Kolesnikov) wrote after his death: he lived well and ended well, behaved all his life like a grave and temperate monk, did not speak idly, was mostly silent and fulfilled everything exactly, and went with great zeal to all the services.