Nikolay Vinogradov is a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Nikolay Vinogradov
Saint- Gender
- male
- Church
- Eastern Orthodox
Places
Relics & Where to Venerate
Location unknown
The bodily remains of Nikolay Vinogradov are a first-class relic. Venerated at Butovo firing range.
Roles & Family
Biography
The historical figure Nikolay Vinogradov, associated with Wikidata identifier Q4111791, cannot be identified with certainty from the name and identifier provided. Nikolay (Nikolai) Vinogradov is a name borne by a number of individuals in Russian history, spanning clergy, military personnel, and professionals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Standard historical references do not yield a unique, well-documented biography that can be matched unambiguously to this Wikidata item without additional corroboration. As a result, precise years of birth and death, places of birth and death, and family details remain unconfirmed.
In ecclesiastical records of the Russian Orthodox Church, several priests named Nikolai Vinogradov appear among those who served in dioceses of central Russia during the late imperial period. Some of these clergymen were victims of the Soviet persecutions of the 1920s–1930s and have been included in lists of the New Martyrs and Confessors. Nevertheless, linking any specific hieromartyr of this name to Q4111791 would require documentary evidence that is not available here, and therefore no feast day or act of glorification can be attributed.
Secular bearers of the name include Soviet naval officers and other public figures of the mid-twentieth century. Equating any one of them with the subject would constitute an unverified assumption. No evidence has been located that the individual held the office of pope or patriarch, nor that he belonged to a particular religious order.
Further biographical reconstruction depends on primary sources such as church archives, civil registration records, or the Wikidata entry itself. Until those sources are consulted and cross-checked, the life of this Nikolay Vinogradov must be regarded as insufficiently documented for a detailed hagiographical or historical account.