Archpriest Mikhail Rasputin — rector of Lovozero Orthodox parish in the Kola North during the years of persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church

Abstract

This article, based on the discovered documents, presents the main milestones of the ministry of the rector of the Lovozersky Epiphany parish, Archpriest Mikhail Ivanovich Rasputin, who, being a contemporary of the Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky), was on Solovki at the same time. While in the Solovetsky Special Purpose Prison (STON), Prot. Mikhail was sentenced to death by firing squad. The article for the first time uses documents from the storerooms of the Lovozero Museum of the History of the Kola Sami (territorial department of the Murmansk Regional Museum of Local Lore) confirming that Archpriest Mikhail Rasputin was repressed and executed on Solovki.