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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: RussiaRUSFinlandFIN
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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.

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Europe's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (VE)

Geert Adriaans Boomgaard • Unknown • Matthias DodenhoffFrederick StabbinsWilliam MugfurSven ErikssonJean-Pierre DupontWilliam WalkerBening Arnold • Hans Schaftner-BurginLars OlofssonMarc PicqJohan Svanstrom • Erik JanssonFrancesco CubaddaThomas PopeJohn FrancklowKarl Nilsson • Constant De LichteAntonio Marchi • August KarlssonKarl GlocknerAnders JonassonMathias Hansen SaetherJan KipWillem Kostering • Francesco Paba • John Mosley Turner • Antonije MladenovicFriedrich Wedeking • Frederick Butterfield • Jean Teillet • Pasquale CappelloGiuseppe Arena • Luigi SabaIngebrigt Johansen • Victor Guillot • Andrei Kuznetsoff • Herman Smith-Johannsen • John Evans • Henri PerignonDomenico Minervino • Josep Armengol-Jover • Pablo Roy • Emile Fourcade • Bernard Delhom • Valentino StellaGregorio Merino • Antonio Baldo • Antonio Urrea-Hernandez • Alejandro Rivera Santalla • Antonio Todde • Joan Riudavets-MollHermann Dornemann • Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski • Maurice Floquet • Henry AllinghamHarry Patch • Stanley Lucas • Jan Goossenaerts • Francisco Fernandez • Arturo Licata • Rezso GallaiPhilippe Vocanson • Harold Bracher • Francisco Nunez Olivera • Gustav GernethBob Weighton • Dumitru Comanescu • Saturnino de la Fuente Garcia • Stanislaw Kowalski • Andre BoiteHans SchornackAndre LudwigJohn Tinniswood


Finland's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (VE)

Kalle PynnönenOtto SetäläKalle SarajärviJustus LokkaJaakko MäkinenAndrei KuznetsoffFrans StoltAlbin KarttunenMatti RuuskaTuomas AhoHeikki TeravainenJalmari KivenheimoAleksi LampenLauri KoivistoTaavetti KolariEemil KayhtyEino TaskinenAntti Kamarainen • Efraim Uusi-Kauppila • Vaino Hanhijoki • Aarne Arvonen • Viljo Kekola • Jussi Leskinen • Vilho Maenpaa • Ragnar LindholmToivo Rantala • Harry Holtti • Kalle Rahomaki • Otto Auloste • Erkki KivistoVaino Loisa • Martti Mikkonen • Eino TamminenYrjo PrittinenJuho LipponenGunnar Stolt

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