Rushchinsky Lev (?) – ecclesiastic journalist, clerk at the Department of Orthodoxy.

In 1869, he graduated from the St. Petersburg Spiritual Academy.

In 1871, he was Secretary of the Kishinev Spiritual Consistory.

In 1871, under the protection of the Society for the Russian History and Antiquities at the Moscow University, he published a book (obviously, his graduating paper) ‘Religious Life of Russians, According the Testimonies of Foreign Writers of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’.

Since 1898, he was Actual State Council, and served at the Most Holy Synod.

He retired on September 1, 1906.