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Vladimir Alexandrof

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==Tragedy==
Unfortunately, tragedy would strike the Alexandrof household in Seattle. In January of 1904, the Alexandrofs' oldest child, five-year-old Nicholas, fell ill, and his father accidentally gave him a teaspoon of strychnine, used for poisoning rats and other vermin, mistaking it for the child's medicine, which was in an identical bottle. The child Nicholas died as a result. Fr. Alexandrof was allow to continue serving as a priest, but another tragedy would strike the family in Seattle, that being the destruction of their home by fire.
==Transfer East==
Fr. Alexandrof was soon moved from Holy Trinity in Chicago and eventually moved to Holy Trinity Cathedral in San Francisco, where he became head priest. In 1917, his wife, Rose, ran off with the assistant priest, Rev. Vasily Dvornikoff. They also absconded with $19,000 of the Alexandrofs' money, and tried to escape to Buenos Aires. Dvornikoff was arrested upon arrival to Argentina, and the pair were both sent back to the United States. In the meantime, Fr. Alexandrof made a desperate plea for his wife to return, which was published in the newspapers.
(Holy Trinity in San Francisco would soon have a new priest, Fr. Vladimir Sakovich, who discovered that the Cathedral was deeply in debt - including taxes that hadn't been paid, resulting in the State taking deed of the land - and needed immediate assistance of the bishop [[Alexander_%28Nemolovsky%29_of_Brussels|Archbishop Alexander (Nemolovsky) ]] was needed in order to save the Cathedral. )
==Activities as a 'Bishop' in the Living Church==
*[http://www.rusembassy.ca/node/76 Russian Orthodox Church - Canada]
*[http://www.dowoca.org/news_110902_1.html Diocese of the West - Wilkenson]
*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5256103 Findagrave.com Nicholas Alexander [(Alexandrof])]
*[http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/ACF2AA.pdf Circuit Riders to the Slavs and Greeks: Missionary Priests and the Establishment of the Russian Orthodox Church in the American West, 1890–1910] by Brigit Farley
*[http://orthodoxhistory.org/2009/09/29/the-tragic-story-of-fr-vladimir-alexandrov/ OrthodoxHistory.org - The tragic story of Fr. Vladimir Alexandrov]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=B-cTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=vladimir+alexandrof+orthodox&source=bl&ots=xKyhL0JmD4&sig=i3sNFNhspZuIs9uJW35WEcPZBUI&hl=en&ei=1MPESu_PIInk8QbNsdVG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=vladimir%20alexandrof%20orthodox&f=false The Church and the Sabbath by Vladimir Alexandrov, 1916]
*[http://orthodoxhistory.org/2009/10/02/more-on-fr-vladimir-alexandrov/ Orthodoxhistory.org - More on Fr. Vladimir Alexandrov]
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2274&dat=19080119&id=FHEmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=of8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=5759,374643 Priest Proud of His Baby - Bridgeport (CT) Herald, 19 January 1908]
 
[[Category: Missionaries|Alexandrof]]
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[[Category: Church History|Alexandrof]]
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