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In Sergiev Posad (formerly Zagorsk) a lot of spiritual places that became simultaneously sights of this city . One of such objects attracting the attention of tourists is the House of Pavel Florensky on Dvoryanskaya Street (today - street Pionerskaya), in which the family of a talented scientist, theologian, poet and priest lived. . He was called "the Russian Leonardo" because of discoveries and inventions in philosophy, theology, philology, art history, mathematics, physics, ethnographer museology, electrical engineering, geology, ahead of time .

In the summer of 1990, in Sergiev Posad, at No. 19 Pionerskaya Street, where during the period from 1915 to 1933, lived PA Florensky, a commemorative plaque was opened, and the house was added to the list of objects of historical and cultural heritage of federal significance.

Pavel Aleksandrovich Florensky (1882-1937) was born in Yevlakh (Elisavetpol province, now Azerbaijan) in a large family living in a closed family. . Seventeen-year-old Pavel Florensky, who graduated from high school with a gold medal, suddenly realizes that knowledge of the truth is possible only with faith in God . Pavel brilliantly graduated in 1904 . Moscow University (Physics and Mathematics Faculty) and got acquainted with Bishop Anthony (Florensov), Pavel decides to devote his life to worship, arrives in Sergiev Posad for an education in Moscow (now the street of the First Shock Army) and for a whole thirty years devotes his life to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra .

In 1910 Pavel Florensky marries a rural primary school teacher Anna Mikhaylovna Hyacintova. The family is populated on the Stadno-Sadovaya street (now - Favorsky), where one year later their first child Vasily is born, and a year later Florensky was elevated to the rank of priest. And in 1915 he and his family moved to the house opposite the laurels on Dvoryanskaya Street (today - Pionerskaya), where four more children were born.

At the house No. 19 on Pionerskaya Street, Florensky often visited: Bylinik B. Shergin, poet M. Voloshin, philosopher S. Bulgakov, artists, scientists, musicians. In the garden of the house in the spring of 1917 the artist Mikhail Nesterov immortalized portraits of Florensky and Bulgakov in his canvas "Philosophers."

In the post-revolutionary years, Florensky serves on the commission for the protection of the monuments of art and antiquity of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, after which she is invited to work in the Glavielektro and in the Supreme Economic Council, where he made major scientific discoveries, developed the theory and practice of using semiconductors, created carbolite (a new kind of plastic). But Father Paul went to the service in the Soviet institutions in the priest's cassock.

In 1928, Pavel's father was arrested, but quickly released at the petition of the wife of Maxim Gorky. But in 1933 the priest was accused of adherence to the counter-revolution and sent into exile to the Far East, and a year later transferred to Solovki in a special purpose camp. And in 1937 the NKVD troika decided to shoot the priest Pavel Florensky

In the summer of 1990 in Sergiev Posad at the house No. 19 on the Pionerskaya street, in which, from 1915 to 1933, Pavel Florensky lived, a memorial plaque was opened, and the house was added to the list of historical and cultural heritage of federal significance.

How to get to the Florensky House

It is more convenient to get there by public transport (there are a lot of buses) to the stop " White Pond "or" Karl Marx Street ", and there you can walk on foot.