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Presented a poem by the venerable confessor, which no one knew about for 100 yearstranslated

October 20, 2026 · 1 min read

A previously unknown poem by the Venerable Confessor Tamar (Marjanova), revered in the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches, was presented to the public for the first time at a scientific conference in the village of Tatevo, Tver Region.

At the regional teachers' conference “Pedagogical heritage of S.A. Rachinsky and the missionary legacy of St. Nicholas of Japan in the modern educational space”, a unique find was publicly presented during his report by the rector of the Patriarchal Metochion at the Church of the Cathedral of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church in Novokosino, Archpriest Vladimir Klyuev, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Organizing Committee of the conference.

The poem was discovered on the blank pages of Bishop Arseny (Zhadanovsky’s) personal notebook “Memorable Tales.” It was Vladyka Arseny who was the spiritual father of the venerable confessor and he who tonsured her into the great schema in 1916.

The work itself is dedicated to the healing of the wife of the Khan of the Golden Horde, Uzbek Taidula, by Saint Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow, in 1357. For 100 years, no one knew about the existence of this text.

– The uniqueness of this find is difficult to overestimate. The poem you can now see is not...

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