Vladimir Leontiev

Владимир Михайлович Леонтьев (born April 14, 1894 in Moscow, October 29, 1959 in Obermenzing) is a Russian military officer and later an emigre activist and Orthodox cleric, military chaplain of the 1st Infantry Division The Armed Forces of the Committee of the Liberation of the Nations of Russia at the end of World War II.

He graduated from the Muscovite Cadet Corps, and in 1914, the Corps of Pazia. Served in the Huskies Regiment's levee. He participated in the First World War. He came up to the rank of Chief of Staff. In 1918 he entered the Kiev Army Volunteer Staff Corps. At the beginning. In 1919, he transferred to the Northwestern Army of General Nikolai N. Judenicz. Since May, he has served in the 3rd Battalion of the Liwien Branch. From August 1919 he was an officer of the 3rd Rifle Regiment of the 5th Division (Liwienska). In December of that year he went to 19 Poltavian Infantry Regiment. He came to the rank of captain. After the defeat of the White forces in January 1920, he left for France. He lived in Paris and then lived in Nice. He was a member of emigre organizations and associations. He left for Czechoslovakia where he became an Orthodox priest. In the first half 1930 with the monks of St. Pantaleimon went on a missionary journey to Western and Central Europe. Then he became deputy abbot of the monastery in Vladimir in Transcarpathian Rus. He became the archimandrite of Hiob. In 1938 he was awarded the title of jeromonacha. In August 1944, when the Red Army approached Slovakia, he evacuated to Germany. In December he became a military chaplain in the newly formed 1st Infantry Division of the Committee of the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia. After the war ended, he settled in Munich, where he headed the local Brotherhood of Monks. Bibliography

Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia: 1918-1968, t. 2, 1968

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