In Novosibirsk, they plan to build a temple in honor of the holy passion-bearer, the righteous doctor Evgeny Botkin. They want to build a building next to the city hospital No. 1 in the Zaeltsovsky district.
The city authorities approved the construction of a church of the Novosibirsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church last spring. Recently, the Office of Architectural and Construction Inspection extended the validity period of the permit until August 2027.
A 567-square-meter plot of land was allocated for the construction of the two-story building. Evgeny Botkin, in whose honor the temple is planned to be built, was the son of the famous Russian doctor Sergei Botkin. He continued his father's work and became a physician to the family of Emperor Nicholas II.
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Russian Russian physician Yevgeny Sergeyevich Botkin (1865-1918) was a physician of the family of Nicholas II, a nobleman, a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, a passion—bearer, and a righteous man.
He was born in Tsarskoye Selo in the family of the famous Russian physician Sergei Botkin, physician to the emperors Alexander II and Alexander III. In 1889, he graduated from the Military Medical Academy with the rank of doctor with honors.
With the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Botkin volunteered for the front, where he served as head of the medical unit of the Russian Red Cross Society in the Manchurian Army. During the war, he was awarded a number of awards: the Order of St. Vladimir, III and II degrees with swords, St. Anna, II degree, St. Stanislaus, III degree.
In 1908, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna invited Botkin to the royal family, and in April of the same year he began working as a life physician to Tsar Nicholas II. After the events of 1917, Botkin remained in the service of the tsar and his family, first being arrested in Tsarskoye Selo, and then going into exile. In April 1918, together with the royal family, he went to Yekaterinburg, and he did it on his own.
On the night of July 16-17, 1918, Botkin was shot at the Ipatievsky House in Yekaterinburg, along with the royal family and three servants who also followed her.
In 1981, Botkin was canonized along with others executed in Yekaterinburg by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad. On October 16, 2009, Botkin was rehabilitated by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office along with 51 members of the royal family who had been subjected to repression by the Bolsheviks.
Church in honor of doctor Evgeny Botkin to be built in Novosibirsk
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