Klementy Grigorovich Nagorny was born in 1887 in the village of Pustovarovka, (Kyyivs'ka State) Ukraine. Having joined the Russian Navy he was eventually assigned duty on the Imperial yacht of Tsar Nicholas II, " Standart"in 1909. Tsarina Alexandra personally selected trusted sailors as permanent body guards for her children, following the Imperial Family wherever they went. Nagorny was selected as constant companion to Tsarevich Alexei. Due to Alexei's hemophilia Nagorny was to keep the vivacious Tsarevich protected from any injury that might activate his condition. A close relationship developed between them with Nagorny being called Uncle. He had also recommended a fellow sailor, Ivan Dmitriyevich Sednev, who became protector of the 4 Grand Duchesses.
Following the abdication of Nicholas II and subsequent arrest of the Imperial Family, Nagorny and Sednev chose to follow them into exile and imprisonment. There were many occasions on which he was outspoken about the treatment inflicted on the children and the family. While imprisoned in Yekaterinburg at the Ipatiev House, "the house of special purpose," Nagorny and Sednev strongly objected when Bolshevik commissaries snatched from Alexei his neck chain with icons on it. For this they were removed from the house and charged with betraying the cause of the revolution. They were shot in the back in the woods behind the railway station and left where they fell.
When White Army forces overtook Yekaterinburg the half decayed bodies of Nagorny and Sednev were buried in a cemetery near the Church of All Who Sorrow. Later Soviet authorities demolished the church and a city park was built over the cemetery.
Both Nagorny and Sednev were Glorified (canonized) as Saints, Martyrs of the Revolution, by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) on 14 November 1981. The Moscow Patriarchate has not yet recognized their Glorification.
Following the abdication of Nicholas II and subsequent arrest of the Imperial Family, Nagorny and Sednev chose to follow them into exile and imprisonment. There were many occasions on which he was outspoken about the treatment inflicted on the children and the family. While imprisoned in Yekaterinburg at the Ipatiev House, "the house of special purpose," Nagorny and Sednev strongly objected when Bolshevik commissaries snatched from Alexei his neck chain with icons on it. For this they were removed from the house and charged with betraying the cause of the revolution. They were shot in the back in the woods behind the railway station and left where they fell.
When White Army forces overtook Yekaterinburg the half decayed bodies of Nagorny and Sednev were buried in a cemetery near the Church of All Who Sorrow. Later Soviet authorities demolished the church and a city park was built over the cemetery.
Both Nagorny and Sednev were Glorified (canonized) as Saints, Martyrs of the Revolution, by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) on 14 November 1981. The Moscow Patriarchate has not yet recognized their Glorification.
Klementy Grigorovich Nagorny was born in 1887 in the village of Pustovarovka, (Kyyivs'ka State) Ukraine. Having joined the Russian Navy he was eventually assigned duty on the Imperial yacht of Tsar Nicholas II, " Standart"in 1909. Tsarina Alexandra personally selected trusted sailors as permanent body guards for her children, following the Imperial Family wherever they went. Nagorny was selected as constant companion to Tsarevich Alexei. Due to Alexei's hemophilia Nagorny was to keep the vivacious Tsarevich protected from any injury that might activate his condition. A close relationship developed between them with Nagorny being called Uncle. He had also recommended a fellow sailor, Ivan Dmitriyevich Sednev, who became protector of the 4 Grand Duchesses.
Following the abdication of Nicholas II and subsequent arrest of the Imperial Family, Nagorny and Sednev chose to follow them into exile and imprisonment. There were many occasions on which he was outspoken about the treatment inflicted on the children and the family. While imprisoned in Yekaterinburg at the Ipatiev House, "the house of special purpose," Nagorny and Sednev strongly objected when Bolshevik commissaries snatched from Alexei his neck chain with icons on it. For this they were removed from the house and charged with betraying the cause of the revolution. They were shot in the back in the woods behind the railway station and left where they fell.
When White Army forces overtook Yekaterinburg the half decayed bodies of Nagorny and Sednev were buried in a cemetery near the Church of All Who Sorrow. Later Soviet authorities demolished the church and a city park was built over the cemetery.
Both Nagorny and Sednev were Glorified (canonized) as Saints, Martyrs of the Revolution, by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) on 14 November 1981. The Moscow Patriarchate has not yet recognized their Glorification.
Following the abdication of Nicholas II and subsequent arrest of the Imperial Family, Nagorny and Sednev chose to follow them into exile and imprisonment. There were many occasions on which he was outspoken about the treatment inflicted on the children and the family. While imprisoned in Yekaterinburg at the Ipatiev House, "the house of special purpose," Nagorny and Sednev strongly objected when Bolshevik commissaries snatched from Alexei his neck chain with icons on it. For this they were removed from the house and charged with betraying the cause of the revolution. They were shot in the back in the woods behind the railway station and left where they fell.
When White Army forces overtook Yekaterinburg the half decayed bodies of Nagorny and Sednev were buried in a cemetery near the Church of All Who Sorrow. Later Soviet authorities demolished the church and a city park was built over the cemetery.
Both Nagorny and Sednev were Glorified (canonized) as Saints, Martyrs of the Revolution, by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) on 14 November 1981. The Moscow Patriarchate has not yet recognized their Glorification.
