Andrei Kuznetsoff

Andrei Kuznetsoff
Birth:	17 October 1873 Russian Empire (now Russia)
Death:	31 January 1984 Heinävesi, Southern Savonia, Finland
Age:	110 years, 106 days
Country:	RUSFIN
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Father Akaki, civil name Andrei Kuznetsov (17 October 1873 – 31 January 1984) was a Russian Orthodox monk who claimed to be the oldest person of Nordic countries and Finland's oldest man ever before Aarne Arvonen.

Biography

As a teenager, Andrei Kuznetsov went to a monastery because he wanted to avoid the Russian Army.

Kuznetsov went to Solovetsky Monastery on the island in White Sea. He worked as horse keeper and as stable boy]. In 1898, he went to Petsamo's Pechenga Monastery where he became a monk in 1913 after 15 years of being in the monastery. He took the name Akaki after Akathist the Bishop of Malta.

Petsamon monastery became the centre of culture and spiritualism. Monk Akaki continued as stable boy.

Monastery life was disrupted during the Winter and Continuation Wars, and the monks moved in 1942 to New Valamo monastery in Heinävesi, where the Valaam Monastery monks were transferred because of the war. Father Akaki took care of horses until the age of 90, when the monastery stopped keeping horses.

Akaki lived very ascetic life with a very meager diet. Bible and praying was his daily ritual even until the age of 100.

At the age of 100 he could still walk to the church. When Akaki reached the age of 107, he got a letter from Heinävesi municipality where he was invited to the primary school's first grade because the computer program made a mistake; it could not recognize the centuries from each other. The mistake was very funny to Akaki.

Andrei Kuznetsoff died in Heinävesi, Southern Savonia, North Karelia Region, Finland on 31 January 1984 at the age of 110 years, 106 days.

Gallery

Aged 110

References

• Photo Gallery for Supercentenarians born in the year 1873 Gerontology Research Group

Europe's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (V • E)

Geert Adriaans Boomgaard • Unknown • Matthias Dodenhoff • Frederick Stabbins • William Mugfur • Sven Eriksson • Jean-Pierre Dupont • William Walker • Bening Arnold • Hans Schaftner-Burgin • Lars Olofsson • Marc Picq • Johan Svanstrom • Erik Jansson • Francesco Cubadda • Thomas Pope • John Francklow • Karl Nilsson • Constant De Lichte • Antonio Marchi • August Karlsson • Karl Glockner • Anders Jonasson • Mathias Hansen Saether • Jan Kip • Willem Kostering • Francesco Paba • John Mosley Turner • Antonije Mladenovic • Friedrich Wedeking • Frederick Butterfield • Jean Teillet • Pasquale Cappello • Giuseppe Arena • Luigi Saba • Ingebrigt Johansen • Victor Guillot • Andrei Kuznetsoff • Herman Smith-Johannsen • John Evans • Henri Perignon • Domenico Minervino • Josep Armengol-Jover • Pablo Roy • Emile Fourcade • Bernard Delhom • Valentino Stella • Gregorio Merino • Antonio Baldo • Antonio Urrea-Hernandez • Alejandro Rivera Santalla • Antonio Todde • Joan Riudavets Moll • Hermann Dornemann • Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski • Maurice Floquet • Henry Allingham • Harry Patch • Stanley Lucas • Jan Goossenaerts • Francisco Fernandez • Arturo Licata • Rezso Gallai • Philippe Vocanson • Harold Bracher • Francisco Nunez Olivera • Gustav Gerneth • Bob Weighton • Dumitru Comanescu • Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia • Stanislaw Kowalski • Andre Boite • Georges Thomas • John Tinniswood

Finland's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (V • E)

Kalle Pynnönen • Otto Setälä • Kalle Sarajärvi • Justus Lokka • Jaakko Mäkinen • Andrei Kuznetsoff • Frans Stolt • Albin Karttunen • Matti Ruuska • Tuomas Aho • Heikki Teravainen • Jalmari Kivenheimo • Aleksi Lampen • Lauri Koivisto • Taavetti Kolari • Eemil Kayhty • Eino Taskinen • Antti Kamarainen • Efraim Uusi-Kauppila • Vaino Hanhijoki • Aarne Arvonen • Viljo Kekola • Jussi Leskinen • Vilho Maenpaa • Ragnar Lindholm • Toivo Rantala • Harry Holtti • Kalle Rahomaki • Otto Auloste • Erkki Kivisto • Vaino Loisa • Martti Mikkonen • Eino Tamminen • Yrjo Prittinen • Juho Lipponen • Gunnar Stolt • Arvi Hämäläinen