A son of Ivan Ivanovich Kuriss (Colonel of the Life Guards of the Hussar Regiment, a Kherson nobleman) and Petrova Elizaveta Nikolaevna.
Graduated from the LXXIV course of the Imperial Alexander Lyceum. After the Russian Revolution fought in the White Volunteer Army. Then lived in Greece.
Arrived in Ireland around 1931 with his wife Ksenia (Sana) and son Ilya. Was a farmer. In 1946 - 1960s together with his wife ran a Russian language school in The Old Courthouse, Collon, Co. Louth. After Ksenia's death he studied theology and was ordained a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church-in-Exile in New York, then he was a parish priest in Dublin (the only Russian Orthodox priest living in Ireland) where he had a tiny chapel. When he died in August 1977, the chapel was closed.
Graduated from the LXXIV course of the Imperial Alexander Lyceum. After the Russian Revolution fought in the White Volunteer Army. Then lived in Greece.
Arrived in Ireland around 1931 with his wife Ksenia (Sana) and son Ilya. Was a farmer. In 1946 - 1960s together with his wife ran a Russian language school in The Old Courthouse, Collon, Co. Louth. After Ksenia's death he studied theology and was ordained a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church-in-Exile in New York, then he was a parish priest in Dublin (the only Russian Orthodox priest living in Ireland) where he had a tiny chapel. When he died in August 1977, the chapel was closed.
A son of Ivan Ivanovich Kuriss (Colonel of the Life Guards of the Hussar Regiment, a Kherson nobleman) and Petrova Elizaveta Nikolaevna.
Graduated from the LXXIV course of the Imperial Alexander Lyceum. After the Russian Revolution fought in the White Volunteer Army. Then lived in Greece.
Arrived in Ireland around 1931 with his wife Ksenia (Sana) and son Ilya. Was a farmer. In 1946 - 1960s together with his wife ran a Russian language school in The Old Courthouse, Collon, Co. Louth. After Ksenia's death he studied theology and was ordained a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church-in-Exile in New York, then he was a parish priest in Dublin (the only Russian Orthodox priest living in Ireland) where he had a tiny chapel. When he died in August 1977, the chapel was closed.
Graduated from the LXXIV course of the Imperial Alexander Lyceum. After the Russian Revolution fought in the White Volunteer Army. Then lived in Greece.
Arrived in Ireland around 1931 with his wife Ksenia (Sana) and son Ilya. Was a farmer. In 1946 - 1960s together with his wife ran a Russian language school in The Old Courthouse, Collon, Co. Louth. After Ksenia's death he studied theology and was ordained a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church-in-Exile in New York, then he was a parish priest in Dublin (the only Russian Orthodox priest living in Ireland) where he had a tiny chapel. When he died in August 1977, the chapel was closed.
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NOTE: There are three Russian type crosses marking three graves of members of the Russian families who lived in Collon.
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