Letters from Innocent to the Archbishop of Ryazan and Zaraisk

Contents Letter 1 • Letter 2 • Letter 3 • Letter 4 • Letter 5 • Letter 6 • Letter 7 • Letter 8 • Letter 9 • Letter 10 • Letter 11 • Letter 12 • Letter 13 • Letter 14 • Letter 15 • Letter 16 • Letter 17 • Letter 18 • Letter 19 • Letter 20 • Letter 21 • Letter 22 • Letter 23 • Letter 24 • Letter 25 • Letter 26 • Letter 27 • Letter 28 • Letter 29 • Letter 30 • Letter 31 • Letter 32 • Letter 33 • Letter 34 • Letter 35 • Letter 36 • Letter 37 • Letter 38 • Letter 39 • Letter 40 • Letter 41 • Letter 42 • Letter 43 • Letter 44 • Letter 45 • Letter 46 • Letter 47 • Letter 48 • Letter 49 • Letter 50 • Letter 51 • Letter 52 • Letter 53 • Letter 54 • Letter 55 • Letter 56 • Letter 57 • Letter 58 • Letter 59 Addition to note 55 of the 14th letter In the preface to the “Letters of Moscow Metropolitan Philaret to Gabriel, Archbishop of Ryazan”, placed in the 2nd book of “Readings in the Imperial Society of Russian History and Antiquities at Moscow University”, 1868 (department V, pp. 114–207), and especially published at the same time, I promised to introduce also the letters of other Hierarchs Russians to the Ryazan Lord. Of these, the personality of the famous Innocent, Archbishop of Kherson and Tauride, stands out in particular, who always had excellent respect for this Hierarch and talked with him in his letters frankly, and even wide open, about many, many things. The space of correspondence covers a period of about 30 years (1829–1857), that is, from his Inspectorate at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy until his death, at the end of May 1857, in Odessa. It goes without saying that the accuracy of the text of the letters is guaranteed by the fact that they were all taken from their originals, delivered to me by the same person as Philaret’s Letters to his relative, His Eminence Gabriel, namely: the Ryazan Priest, Father Nikolai Gumilyov. On my part, only some notes are attached to them, in the right places. They, on the basis of the data contained in the letters, correct some inaccuracies that have crept into the “Service List” of the late Innocent and other information about him, at least to this day announced in the press. Osip Maksimovich Bodyansky. (O.B.) Your Eminence Vladyka! I had the honor to receive your most respectable letter and money for books from Father Archimandrite Nicholas, and I most humbly thank you for your fatherly good wishes. The amount of money sent, I remember, exceeds the proper amount; but such is my accuracy! The note received from Gref 3 has been lost by me, and now I must humbly ask you to send a register of the books received from me; for this is the only means for me to bring the matter to a conclusion. There are not as many new books coming out now as before: I will try to deliver the best ones to you. "Christian Reading" 4 will also be delivered to you, at your request, through the Seminary Board. We recently suffered a severe storm for him, namely: for the Theology of Gregory the Theologian 5, in which His Eminence Philaret 6 found suspicious places and protested against them in writing in the Holy Synod. The article belongs to Gerasim Petrovich 7: however, I also got it as a Censor, although I did not read some passages at all, relying on O. Rector 8. But as everything in the world goes for the better, this evil also brought some benefit: several dozen “Christian Readings” were immediately bought up by the public. For this, wishing you every true good and asking for your Archpastoral blessing, R.S. Gref does not have the remaining sheets; but I ordered them to be written off, and they will soon be delivered to you. Having waited for the bright days of the Resurrection of Christ 9, I make it my sacred duty to greet you in the name of the risen Savior, praying to Him, the all-merciful One, to strengthen your strength, to bless all your good undertakings, to give you His peace and His joy. Your Eminence Vladyka! Do not deprive me of the heavenly blessing that you bring down to your flock with your prayers. To belong in spirit to the number of those you flock, to honor you as your mentor and father, to boast of your goodwill and to deserve it - this has always been and will be the most pleasant duty for Your lowest novice, I hope to send new books soon. The Reverend Filaret is soon leaving for Moscow for the summer. – Candidates presented yesterday in Tambov: 1, our O. Rector; 2, Pavel Vladimirsky; 3, Evgeny Kostromskoy 10, and 4, on behalf of Krinitsky 11, Apollos 12. I recently heard His Eminence Philaret express his regret about your Rector. They talked about whether it was possible to forgive him the rest of the money. It seems like your petition would be right here. My theological bow to your philosopher. Your most venerable letter is so merciful that I should only be grateful for your fatherly remembrance of me: but I am ashamed of it, as a sentence of my laziness, as evidence against my inattention to fulfilling my most sacred and pleasant duty. Sorry, sorry! Among the hustle and bustle of school, you often forget yourself. Hey, really! Fulfilling your will, I forward to you several books. I'm afraid I wouldn't send you what you already have. In this case, order it sent back. I can easily find a place for them. There are no completely new books. Germany has become impoverished, France still listens to Cousin da Guizot and publishes the Holy Fathers. England begins to rewrite the Germans, like us. That's the whole History of modern Literature. There are small works, but they are almost all in German. If you like, just allow it, and I will send you dozens of this scientific junk without money. I am also adding my own Paul to other people’s books, although, I admit, I would not like to see him at all in the light, in his former, so imperfect, form 13 . I ask you to accept the Polish Conversations on Eastern Orthodoxy. Churches I recently published. I would like to quickly finish the History of the Suffering of Jesus Christ 14, but I just can’t find the time. Committing myself to your Archpastoral prayers, I always consider it my duty to be R.S. Money for books is 151 rubles. 60 k. I received 8 five-ruble gold coins. I don't know the gold rate. I'll let you know based on the information. I have prepared for you a collection of the latest various arguments of Foreigners - very interesting; but one person, whom I could not refuse, took it for himself. I am ordering another one and hope to send it in May. No money needed; for, as I remember, I still have a few of the old ones left behind. Your brother has nothing to worry about; for he will receive a place in the Seminary in due time. And there is no need to worry about the Master's degree. Let him write an argument and go on vacation to the capital for a very easy exam 15. The intelligent and kind official, from whom I received your letter, gave me great pleasure by talking about you and everything about you. Gracious Father and Archpastor! Having not received an answer to your letter for so long, you have, no doubt, received many thoughts on this occasion and, perhaps, not entirely favorable for your correspondent. Meanwhile, the real reason for this slowness, which is extremely unpleasant for me, is one: the desire to deliver to Your Eminence the correct information as accurately and completely as possible. This seemed at first all the more convenient because Rev. Metropolitan 16 himself undertook to do the necessary historical research. What's better than a researcher? But the impossible remained impossible for him. At first it was a matter of books needed for reference. Then the Bishop went to inspect some of the Districts of his Diocese. Already upon my return and upon receipt of the books, I delved into this matter. What has been revealed? The same thing that was known before, or, better said, not known. The relics have been resting here since ancient times, but by whom they were brought, how and when, it is absolutely not known. There are not even local legends, with which our Lavra, unfortunately, is not rich in general. And so it remains to believe that this shrine was brought from Jerusalem, after its conquest by the Muslims, directly, or through Italy, as the Catholics testify. writers 17. Enough about antiquities. – We humbly thank you for the Pastoral gift. We all shared it unenviably—with appropriate reading. We ask you to accept our contribution. This is an excerpt from the published essays of the past course of local Students 18. Due to the slowness of printing, I decided to make special prints. This year we hope to review other major subjects that are discussed in the dispute between us and the Catholics. It is not in the tone of the current times to argue, but for this region such articles are needed. We most earnestly wish you success in your Pastoral labors, heartily rejoicing at the successful beginning of these 19. The harvest is plentiful, although not without chaff, and has long awaited the worker. Your flock (to which our new governor of the province now counts himself) 20 cannot find words to express their respect for you. May the Lord help you morning and morning! Kyiv is ours all summer, like a full cup. Present Tassov Liberated Jerusalem; There are pilgrims and soldiers everywhere. Now the Smolensk Eminence Joseph, my former acquaintance, is staying here 21. And in the spring, His Eminence of Chernigov was at Bogomolye 22. Everyone can't get enough of this place. Wouldn't God put it on your heart for Your Eminence to visit the capital of Russian shrines and antiquities? We all (here the whole Academy is filled with your former students Sevsky) would come out to meet you beyond the Dnieper. I am sending as many conversations about Orthodoxy as I found, 15. Judging by the various requirements, I will have to make a second edition. In addition, 15 more copies of the Reasoning of the Academy are attached: they cost a ruble each; but you can donate it to poor churches. We humbly ask you to distribute the remaining copies to students, at your discretion. For this, committing myself to the continuation of your fatherly love and asking for Archpastoral prayers, I give it my sacred duty Most Gracious Father and Archpastor! Having published the Teachings of one of my former mentors, 23 and now a most zealous collaborator, I make it my pleasant duty to present this publication to the paternal view of Your Eminence, in the firm confidence that if not the art of words, then the Christian feelings with which these Teachings were written will be pleasant for the Shepherd, who proclaims in deed and word the path of eternal life. Deign, Most Reverend Master, to accept this small offering as a sign of that filial respect and love for you, which will not cease even with the end of my earthly days. Over the past year, we have been delighted by your promise to visit our God-saved city this spring. But now spring has passed, and we do not have the spiritual joy of seeing you in our circle. It’s true that the division of the dioceses is to blame. But this reason cannot last long. Would you please bless me to wait for you at the Assumption? This is one of the main days to which pilgrims flock. However, the gates of the churches here and our hearts will always be completely open for Your Eminence. We just ask you not to give up your good intention to visit the capital of Russian shrines and antiquity. Hey, it's worth it! With this feeling, surrendering myself to your fatherly goodwill and asking for the Archpastoral blessing, I consider it a sacred duty to always be most obedient son and servant, Academician Rector Archimandrite Innocent. R. S. General Belogradsky gave us great pleasure with the news of the improvement of your health and the universal respect and love of your flock for you. May both grow and strengthen under the shadow of the Grace of God! Please give another copy of the book to your O. Rector. Your Eminence Vladyka! It would have been long ago for me to respond to your most respected letter, and I would have done this long ago if it had not been for the indecision of our Master to send, or not to send, the manuscript to you. The reason for this indecision was the thought of whether to start publishing Konisky’s works here in Kyiv, to which he belongs no less than Mogilev. Finally, this thought, and with it the indecision regarding the manuscript, passed, and I have the honor to forward the last one to you. Do whatever you want with her; Only after completing the work, we humbly ask you to return this scroll to the local Library; for it is numbered and belongs to the most important manuscripts. The idea of ​​publishing Konisky’s creations is a wonderful idea. And when I was looking at the manuscript now sent to you four years ago, this thought came to me. Many, many will be grateful to Your Eminence for its fulfillment. But what exactly will be published? Are his sermons alone? Or with the addition of other works? For it is known that Konisky wrote in different genres. I would like to have everything, but it is hardly possible to publish everything. There is something (for example, in the History of Little Russia) that is not published. Archpriest Grigorovich (formerly Gomelsky) also once thought about publishing Konisky and collected his works. Is this known to Your Eminence? Relationship with him may not be useless for success in business 24. If anything else is required on our part in the work you are starting, then we are ready to serve Your Eminence with all zeal. As a reward for this, we ask only for your Archpastoral blessing and prayers, which are precious for him who has always been and always will be, Your Eminence 25, A. R. Archimandrite Innocent. With someone else's manuscript, I dare to forward to you my small scroll 26. Happy if Your Eminence, looking at it, finds that the instructions we once heard from you have not remained without effect. It is my most pleasant duty to present to your fatherly attention, after Holy Week, Bright Week, bright in name and subject, and not in anything else 27. Its author had many perplexities about whether to give such a poor book such a bright name; but the serenity of the holiday described in it finally prevailed over the darkness of bewilderment, and a small thing, as in other cases, received a great name. Deign, O Christ-loving Archpastor, to deign to have a fatherly inspection of this little thing and, if possible, to give the one who worked on it an instruction, which he could use in his further exercises of this kind. This will be the most welcome sign of your attention for someone (who) considers it an honor and pleasure to always remain your student. Your Eminence, Honor our pet with the Hierarch's blessing, who, by the wave of Providence, was suddenly taken away from our circle to a distant country 28 . Our most ardent bow to the most venerable Herodion Yakovlevich. I sincerely thank you for such a merciful unforgetfulness of me, unworthy. My trip to St. Petersburg in the middle of autumn would have been one of the unpleasant trips for me if I had not had the opportunity to see several faces to whom my heart and soul have long been attached. I don’t consider it necessary to mention that among these persons I primarily mean Your Eminence. If the Lord commands, then around the 3rd of next month I will have the pleasure of kissing your Holy Right hand 30 . Until then, I dare to entrust myself to your love and prayers. Most Gracious Father and Archpastor, Your fatherly love for me, unworthy, follows me here too!.. How could I deserve it, and how can I deserve it? But true Christian love loves to be undeserved. May the Lord Himself reward you with love and generosity! On the 21st, on the day of Introduction, I, unworthy, was introduced into the host of Shepherds of Christ’s Church. A sign of the day for good: the Lord would grant that whatever corresponds to him, the very thing! Now I'm starting to think about a return path. But it should not be through Mogilev, but through Moscow. The local authorities themselves are sending me this way, having something in mind along the way. And I am the less opposed to this in this regard, the more I have long wanted to see Moscow. There is one thing that is very sad about the old path - meeting the new one with you. But I firmly hope that next spring we will see Vasya among God-saved Kyiv. Then the present deprivation will be filled. I greet you with the new acquisition of new spiritual children 31. The reward for such labors is from the Most High. However, even here your exploits find connoisseurs who know, and are accepted all the better because they are free from criticism of severity. Love is stronger than strength. Committing myself again to your fatherly goodwill and asking for the Hierarch’s blessing, Your Eminence Innocent, Bishop of Chigirinsky. Approaching the all-joyful day of the Nativity of our Lord and Savior, and the new summer of the Grace of God, I make it my most pleasant duty to appear mentally before your face and greet you on these sacred days, praying with all my soul to the Lord of times and years, may he preserve your health and strength, and may he bless all your undertakings and labors in the coming summer, as he preserved and blessed you in the past years. Do not, Your Eminence Vladyka, deprive me, unworthy in the coming summer, of your fatherly favor, your Archpastoral prayers and blessings, which have always been and will remain precious to me. I extremely regret that the constraints of my circumstances do not allow me to more often use written conversations with Your Eminence. In its place, I have invented for myself a mental conversation, which nothing can hinder, and I am sure that Your Eminence fully admits the possibility and benefit of such an interview. In our God-saved city, through the prayers of the Pleasers of God, everything is fine. We abound in everything; one thing is missing - time, which flies so that you don’t have time to count the weeks. O. Jeremiah 32 bows to Your Eminence to the ground, and asks for blessings, and the publishers of V. Readings 33, bringing you sincere gratitude for the patronage of their work, express before you their desire to see on the pages of this magazine any of the works of Your Eminence. Again and again asking for fatherly blessings and Archpastoral prayers, with a feeling of unchanging filial respect I am until the end of my life Innocent, Bishop of Chigirinsky, V.K.E. 34 It is my most pleasant duty to greet Your Eminence on the bright days of the Luminous Uprising of Christ 35. I thought and wanted to do this before; but the promise of the bearer of this letter to be with me much earlier on the way back to you caused me to quietly miss the time required for that. But in the Orthodox Church for a long time they will proclaim: “Christ is risen!” and in the soul of Your Eminence it will never remain silent. Therefore, I, without hesitation, dare to repeat this most joyful greeting to you. Your fatherly memory of me, unworthy, and of O. Jeremiah deeply touched both of us. May the Lord Himself reward you with His remembrance of you! - I ask you to humbly accept the little attached from me 36. In our God-saved city everything is quiet and prosperous. There were hundreds of one and a half Polish uninvited guests. But now this tragedy is over. The conspiracy was as absurd as anyone could possibly fit into a Polish head. The government acted very mercifully, as is its custom 37 . From the bearer of the letter I learned, to my satisfaction, that you sometimes deign to teach the Orthodox people yourself 38 . But you won’t give us anything for the magazine!.. 39 Why such disfavor? We are ready to accept everything from your hand with all cordiality, and, if you wish, we will be happy to print several copies of these same articles. And so the Commission died along with the Union!.. 40 By the way! Both were nothing more than a schism... But the Spiritual Educational Administration is a new status in statu (state within a state). This is a nodule on the body that will draw all the juices into itself and make the whole body lose weight. Our Eminence Vladyka 41 is heard to consecrate churches, and His Eminence of Moscow 42 corrects the Catechisms. Suum cuique! (To each his own!) Our winter was mild, but in the end cruel. Frosts even now. The Dnieper is barely, barely moving, spring seems to be under arrest. Asking for your fatherly blessing and devoting myself entirely to your Archpastoral favor, with always sincere respect and love I am Innocent, Bishop of Chigirinsky, Vicar K. The approach of the all-joyful Triumph of the Birth in the flesh of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, opens up for me the most pleasant opportunity - to appear mentally to your fatherly face, to kiss your holy right hand, and to greet you with that heavenly joy that was announced from the Angel to all the fallen sons of Adam. Deign, most Christ-loving Archpastor, to send in the new year of Grace your Hierarchical blessing, and unworthy for me, so that, aided by your prayers, I may, with unflagging zeal, return to the holy service of the Church of Christ. always a servant from the heart and soul, Innocent, Bishop of Chigirinsky, V.K. I cannot express how sorry I am that I was not lucky enough to see you in Moscow 43 . I hurried there in the firm hope of catching you, or waiting, although the latter would cost a week or more. I arrive, and in response to my first question they say that you have already left, on the very day I arrived. It was necessary for such a failure to happen, the most important one in my entire journey. Now necessity dictates the use of a dead charter, although it is far from being able to replace the living word. I will try, however, so that she is not completely dead before you: with someone whom we respect from the heart, one must speak from the heart, or remain silent. And firstly, deign to accept the most ardent congratulations on the deepest sign of the Monarch’s attention to your merits. This has long been expected by many; this truly brought joy to everyone who knows you (and how many don’t?) and to the needs of the Orthodox Church. May the Lord grant you and your kindness the strength to work in this new field with the same success with which you worked in the previous ones! 44 This will be one of our most fervent prayers to the Giver of all good things. Secondly, please accept my sincere gratitude for your fatherly love for me, unworthy. Your loving writing was a true balm for wounds. For before the Feast I suffered severely from inflammation under the armpit of my right hand. There was some inflammation in my soul. In the midst of a cruel illness, to suddenly receive the news that you are being impudently torn away from your place, your favorite circle of activities 45 and, without any particular reason or purpose, are thrown into the distant North - this could have embarrassed me and not my weakness. But, thank God, never spoiled by happiness, having long been accustomed to various kinds of hardships, but having no ambitious views or moves in my head, I, on my own, without any particular grief, accepted my destiny. One thing I especially regretted was Dogma. The collection, which in Kyiv I was sure to put an end to this summer, must be postponed until future summers. My appointment had a different effect on others. Kyiv screamed against him with all the strength of its voice: in its wake, regret and bewilderment rushed from all sides. Unfortunately, the very pillars of the Church contributed to this unrest. The Bishop of Kiev 46 comes to visit the sick man, and in front of people, he conjures in the name of God to endure temptation. The Bishop of Moscow 47 writes with great regret about what happened and with the desire that I would illuminate Vologda with my glory (oh! oh!). He writes directly another time to the Bishop of Kyiv with a notification that they decided unanimously to present me to Kamenets 48, out of respect for the state of my health. The Right Reverend Jonah 49 writes about the same thing and asks to pray for the success of the enterprise. Such a plaintive chorus could not help but confuse everyone, and I had to listen to it on my sick bed. And it was precisely in these circumstances that I received your letter, which was precious to me. The Lord himself truly instilled it in you. It was for me a voice from heaven. Seeing everyone against my Vologda, I considered it my duty to become its defender, and with my complacency I managed, if not to destroy, then to reduce the temptation of my resettlement. Among many letters, I received a letter from His Lordship 50, beginning with congratulations on my elevation to the degree of Diocesan Bishop, ending with the suggestion of various means - how to complete the Collection, including calling to Vologda Archimandrites capable of this task. That is, they are ready to turn Vologda into the Academy of Sciences, if only I myself would be at the North Pole.... I did not respond to the congratulations, but regarding the Collection, I sent an opinion from here so that it could be entrusted to be completed by someone in St. Petersburg, or a Committee should be established for this purpose there. In fact, if the translation of ready-made rules, and only rules, things are not as important as dogma, the Committee required, much less the Collection of Dogmas, a book completely original and extremely important in its influence on the Church. Probably, the tone I adopted in my communications on this matter will cause grief to the individual, but it doesn’t matter to me; for having done what was possible, with God’s help, for Vologda, I firmly decided to strictly leave the Hierarchical path and embark on the peaceful path of studying the sciences. This was my old thought, my favorite one. How much does a person need? Is life great? After this, it would be reckless to serve as a plaything for individuals. My path was both very joyful, due to the beautiful spring nature and the heartfelt sympathy for me that I found everywhere, even among the lower class of the people, and sad, due to the perplexities and regrets through which I had to pass without fail. Especially Moscow, out of its old habit, did not hesitate to make me an obvious opposition to its (unfortunately, not beloved) Vladyka. He himself received me, apparently with sincere sympathy, but with some kind of confusion and, as it were, shame. I noticed that I was not making my visits to him more often, although I lived in Moscow for a week. This was all the more plausible since everything was busy with the reception of distinguished guests. On the feast of Metropolitan Alexy 51, I had the pleasure of hearing His Grace Philaret preach for the first time. The manner of his preaching surprised me. The word was written very cleverly, but according to all the rules of the school, without adapting to the understanding of the listeners; pronounced well, but as pronounced according to the Decree of the Consistory. Such a huge talent is lost in childish forms!.. It’s truly a pity! After this, it is not surprising that Moscow, having an excellent vita, does not even know that it possesses such a treasure. There was no one in the church except the mob. I arrived in Vologda at the end of last month. The diocese is definitely peaceful and kind, as you were pleased to describe it, but there are quite a few circumstances that greatly harm this kindness. Next time I will take the courage to present them to you and ask you for fatherly advice, but now I only have time to mentally kiss your right hand and ask for your blessing for work in a new field. Innokenty, E. V. and U. 52 My last letter concluded with a promise to provide Your Eminence with information about our Vologda. I fulfill my promise with pleasure, asking you to humbly not bore me with a description of our shortcomings. On the way to Vologda, to protect her from criticism, I said so many good things about her at random that now it is permissible to say (one) truth and truth before you. The people here are ancient Russian, kind, pious, loving churches and their splendor, but at the same time, very rude and, what is much worse, very prone to sensuality. The city of Vologda is spacious, beautiful in places, and surpasses many provincial cities in churches, but its location is terrible. On a rare street you won’t see a swamp with a bridge; on others there are entire swamps, somehow turned into house ponds. There are also a lot of swamps around the city, which makes the air unclean and damp. In this situation, I think, Petersburg was under Peter V. Of the churches, the cathedral is distinguished by its antiquity, its vastness, and its historical origin (it was built and almost destroyed by I. Grozny), but to this difference was added such internal dilapidation that, due to dampness, due to the mostly broken floor, they served only once a year, on the day of his feast, the Dormition. To complete the pitiful situation of the cathedral, its rector, O. Archpriest of Vienna, due to complete health problems, has not been there for six years now, even six times a year, and does not serve on Easter itself. Having the right to a pension, according to the School's previous service, he is now thinking of taking advantage of this right, and I humbly ask Your Eminence not to be stingy in awarding him a pension. At one time he was a good servant, although now he is decidedly incapable of service. The top of his desire is to receive a Professor’s salary in retirement, which, it seems, can be done 53 . The Bishop's House in Vologda is a huge building, with many extensions, but most of the rooms are empty, with windows boarded up, like in a prison, and the whole building is extremely disgraceful. Unfortunately, given its size, there is no house church. There is a place for a church, but there is absolutely nothing in it, except for the dilapidated iconostasis. Where, you may ask, were the brownie Liturgies served? Nowhere... This circumstance worries me extremely. The income of the house does not allow for any special expenses (they extend no more than 1200 rubles assig.), but necessity forced us to immediately organize a church, although on credit. It would be a great favor if the Holy Synod looked upon the Vologda House, as it looked upon others like it. Otherwise we will be begging. G. Voitsekhovich 54 described the Vologda Consistory to me in Kyiv as very serviceable. She is definitely correct in relation to St. Petersburg: this was all her activity; and at home they did what the Secretary wanted. Taking advantage of the weakness of the Eparch. The chiefs, relying on connections with G. Beyer, whose estate is managed here, the Secretary, during his 40-year service, has so entangled the entire Diocese with his connections that now it is impossible to touch a single person without touching the Secretary at the same time. Transferring him to another place would be a true blessing for the Diocese. This is all the more convenient since the Secretary is single, and according to his knowledge he can serve usefully in another Diocese. About the domestic activity of the Consistory, it is enough to say that the Charter of the Consistory, which was reported to have been put into effect, still lies in a drawer without use. I would least like to say anything not in praise of my venerable predecessor, 55 but necessity forbids silence. The sacrilege was launched by himself with such impudence that everyone knew the price for places and awards. Especially poor monasteries suffered from this disease: these were simply Jewish leases. The goal of all this was to accumulate as much money as possible and retire. Instead of their own business, which in all respects, except for reports to the Synod, was omitted, they occupied themselves with extreme diligence with the presidency of the Prison Committee; through this they managed to establish contact with the gendarmerie unit; Through her, they managed to get the crown and sail to Astrakhan. This is our whole History! But all this would not matter to us: but this is what our grief actually is. My predecessor himself sold candles throughout the Diocese for ten years, having one of his Economists under him. Amount in circulation; every year was at least one hundred thousand. The profits must also be significant. When he changed, the Consistory wanted to take over the matter of candles from him, as it should have been. What did he do? He gave the Consistory a proposal so that it did not worry about this, that his Economy would present reports on the candles to me personally. The consistory, foolishly, was satisfied with this unfounded outburst. I arrive and demand a report from the Economist: he replies that he has so much money on his face (not much), but he doesn’t know anything else. What was to be done in these circumstances? It was incongruous to take such a mountain on my shoulders, and I decided to appoint a Commission from the members of the Consistory to review this matter in the proper way. As much as I could see in this darkness, from the profits of candles, 15 thousand were allocated every year to the Bishop's House for expenses. But there were probably other costs—unseen ones. Do not leave me, Your Eminence Vladyka, in your leadership in this case. I'm not looking for money; God be with them! - but irresponsibility. There is an Archimandrite here, not unfamiliar to you from Mogilev, O. Ambrose. He really misses being here. Will it be possible to ask him for any reward for his long service? And it would be even better if he were given some monastery with the highest class in the heart of Russia. But I almost abuse my filial boldness in front of you, and complain to you about all sorts of things. Forgive and bless Having returned home from wandering around my Diocese, and found two of your loving letters to me, unworthy, I hasten to offer my deepest gratitude for the generous enduring of my cries and bickering. However, I am extremely sorry that, in the turmoil of thoughts and circumstances, I did not have time to present to you some aspects of my situation from the proper point of view, from which some thoughts could have arisen that disagreed with the true state of affairs. Namely: my displeasure, on the occasion of my displacement, seems to be a consequence of irritated pride. I beg you to leave this thought, if there is even a part of it. God knows that she entered my own consciousness. Vologda, as a part of Russia unknown to me, and yet the oldest and very remarkable part of it, due to my penchant for travel and History, always seemed to me a country where I was willing to spend several years with pleasure. But I would not like to be in it under my current circumstances. What are these circumstances? The most important thing is the end of Dogma. A collection, the compilation of which was entrusted to me. Having announced this matter so many times before the whole of Russia, it is a shame not to finish it, and it would have been completed this year if not for the sudden transfer. What will I do now? - Besides, this work requires time and peace, and I don’t have a free day in my new place; a reference library is needed, but it is not here. Please judge for yourself: is it good to treat people this way? And who should apply? Those who placed this burden on me without understanding the importance of the matter! “At least there was no foul play here!” However, God knows this. If I could lift the veil of my relations since I was in St. Petersburg 56, then perhaps you would be the first to change your thoughts on this matter. But let her lie... because it’s not a matter of personality, but a matter of deeds, and it’s something that suffers extremely and makes me feel sorry for myself. My desire to leave the path of Hierarchical service seemed especially strange to you, and this desire most likely seems to be a consequence of irritated pride. But was this desire born yesterday, or the day before? I had it in full force even when I served in St. Petersburg; it did not leave me during my entire stay in Kyiv 57; it was loudly discovered by me at my dedication 58. What is so surprising if it remains to this day? “Where should we head next?” – To the East, to Palestine and Sinai, and then to Athos. Due to non-existence there, I have not yet published the History of the Passion of the Lord, the compilation of which gave rise to this desire in me. What's wrong with that? And what loss for the Hierarchy is the absence of one of the Bishops? There are always ten candidates ready for such positions, who, just as well as I, will look through the Consistory journal, ordain them to the priesthood, bring the faulty one to justice, and so on. Upon returning from my journey, having removed the holy half-vow from my soul, I can, if it turned out to be necessary, act, in the form of the most obedient material, back into the hands of those who are building. Please accept my deepest gratitude for your fatherly advice and admonition. I did not inform the Holy Synod about the Commission on the Candle Section in order not to disturb the memory of my predecessor. Perhaps its result will be such that it will be possible to do without trial and investigation, which would be extremely desirable for me. For complaining to you is another matter, but going to court with a complaint is not at all in my character. Introduction to Prot. Vienna regarding the pension goes through the current mail: please do not reject it and look after the poor man. Upon my return, I was delighted with the decoration of my Cross church. Now there is a place to listen to the Liturgy without going to the Cathedral, which is 200 yards away. Therefore, in the opinion required by the Holy Synod regarding the abolished Vvedensky Monastery 59, I dared to express a desire that part of its sacristy and utensils be provided to this church. Please do not skimp on this small gift. I don’t know what to do with my Secretary: this is an example of a management malfunction! The Office of the Chief Prosecutor itself asks him for papers three times, and he does not give them. I will endure until I have patience. Submitting oneself again forever to the fatherly benevolence with a feeling of unchanging spiritual respect remains the most zealous novice from the heart, Innocent, Bishop of Vologda and Ustyug. The forests around us have been burning for several weeks now, and the darkness of Egypt has been over us for a week. Yesterday the whole city prayed for mercy, and, following the prayers of the Vologda Saints, the Lord commanded the sun to shine in all its splendor, immediately upon leaving the church, which was a source of spiritual joy for everyone. It is my pleasant duty to present to your attention one of the works of the spiritual Vertograd of Vologda, in the firm belief that it is pleasant for you to see such works everywhere, especially in the deep North. The good worker who has worked on this, in addition to the gift of speech, which is constantly used for the benefit of the Church, is distinguished by an excellent character and exemplary behavior. I consider it the grace of God that I could find such a person here and entrust to him my Council, which had remained without any supervision for so long. All the more boldly do I dare to call on your gracious superior attention to this man, so that his reward does not pass by, for which he, according to the usual order, is presented in the Holy. Synod. The outer cross, to which he is presented, has been carried by him internally for quite a number of years with complacency, which has gained him respect from everyone. The previous authorities, unfortunately, were constantly in a kind of hostile attitude towards such people, causing no small temptations in secular people. My secretary refuses to go to Astrakhan: he is afraid of the climate and his old age. When the cases are handed over, it now turns out that in his reports to the Holy Synod about the progress of affairs, at times he allowed himself to outright lie. But God bless him! he was long past retirement age; Therefore, he can stay with her, having a house and a fortune and being single at 64 years old. With the onset of long autumn evenings, the desire came to lay the last hand on the Collection. Given the lack of benefits and my bookless position, necessity dictates that I take frames that are not the ones that were intended, but closer ones. At the beginning of next year, perhaps it will be possible to present at least the first part. I don’t know what to do with the publication of “The Last Days of the Earthly Life of I. Christ.” The book is completely finished and even corrected in some places according to the comments of the Eminence of Kyiv, who read it according to all the rules of an inexorable, pre-Orthodox critic. I’m thinking of sending it directly to the Petersburg censorship, since this is entirely her business. For is it not possible to bother the attention of the Holy Synod with such things? The opinion of Your Eminence can put an end to my perplexity in this case; Therefore, I humbly ask you not to deprive me of it. Is something being done with the project on spiritual salaries? And how nice it would be to speed up this good deed! I have a whole region called Zyryan, a remote, wild, sparsely populated region. No one goes there without a salary, and some churches have been empty for ten years or more, and this people have a special need for shepherds of the Church. I am thinking of ascending to the Holy Synod with a special idea about the improvement of the poor Zyryan in church terms. Will you bless? But in any case, do not deprive your fatherly blessings and prayers most devoted son and servant Innocent, Bishop of Vologda. Have you heard about the strange scene that took place in Kyiv at the University Act on July 15? It is extremely unfortunate for such phenomena 60. What was it like in Riga - scary?... 61 Although with a weak hand from illness, but with a strong thought, I hasten to fulfill the most pleasant duty for me, to greet Your Eminence on the all-joyful day of the appearance in the flesh of God the Savior, praying to His almighty goodness, may He strengthen your strength in the coming new year with His Grace and may He grant your flock and the entire Orthodox Church to rejoice even more over your fruitful work in Vertograd of Christ. Do not deprive me, Your Eminence Vladyka, of a new fatherly blessing and holy prayers in the new year, so that I may be able to bear the sacred burden of pastoral service on weak shoulders. Unfortunately, the northern climate is beginning to have a very unfavorable effect on me. The reason for this, among other things, is that I drank mineral water twice in Kyiv: after such treatment, damp, swampy air is a real disaster! I, however, do not lose my spirit and use all possible means to acclimate myself to the North. In this way, I achieve, at least, that the poorness of my physical position does not prevent me from often serving and performing other tasks of my calling. From winter and its constancy I hope to receive again what the fickle autumn took with it. There is a need to inform Your Eminence about many things: but this must be done by gathering strength. In anticipation of this, devoting myself and for all the time to come entirely to your fatherly goodwill and asking for the Archpastoral blessing, I am with the deepest respect No matter how pleasant and comforting your kind writing was for me, I could not answer it from Vologda, because I received it just before leaving, which had to be hastened, anticipating the inevitable arrival of the new Bishop from inhospitable Voronezh 63 . Vologda said goodbye to me exactly as you deigned to predict - with considerable tears. It was not without heartfelt sadness for me to leave a field in which my short work was accompanied by a visible blessing from above. All eight months before the New Year I was all in trouble; Since the New Year, having settled down, I was thinking of resting, but instead of resting, it was again a long journey. After this, you will not be surprised that in the present circumstances, dragging myself was not at all to my heart. True, I wrote to Count 64 something like gratitude in response to his kind letter, but this gratitude was expressed in such a sense that they (?) could rather be considered a sign of strong displeasure. So much the better if they are taken in a positive direction; for I have no desire at all to irritate these people in vain, whose property is never to forgive insults, not only to them, but also to those caused by them. In Yaroslavl I met with His Eminence Irinarch 65. The most honorable shepherd I have ever seen. How much he endured in Riga, and even in Voronezh 66. But the spirit is great, self-sacrifice is truly Christian. And it was a great consolation for me that such a person was coming to my Vologda. Equally, he was not a little consoled when he heard from me that Vologda was by no means as bad as some people say about it; what else is better in it than in many places. The Yaroslavl Vladyka is apparently getting sicker, especially with his eyesight 67. He was happy with us, like a father with children. Unfortunately, his Diocese does not seem to be entirely at peace with him. This saddens the elder, as well as some of his relations with the St. Petersburg Offices. It is not for us to judge who is right and who is wrong: only at this Office did I hear grave complaints all along the way, especially in Kostroma and Kursk 68 . I am talking about Kostroma because, instead of a direct route to Moscow, I, taking this opportunity, decided to examine it and Vladimir, as places of note for the History of the Russian Church, which has long occupied me. And there really is something to see in Kostroma, and in Vladimir and Suzdal. In the first, the Lord has hitherto, like Jeremiah, sat down to the ruins of his church and does not stop sighing, fearing responsibility. How glad he would be if he were taken somewhere from a place that, for various reasons, may have depended on him, had become almost unbearable for him 69 . Suzdal occupied me with both its ancient church and its non-ancient prisoners. The monastery has a huge, newly built building, so that if it were necessary to establish a Vicariate for the vast Diocese of Vladimir, then the housing is ready with all the amenities. And life is not bad for prisoners; I just wish the rooms were more tidy. In general, the way they were kept did not seem to me... Vladimir is a city rising from ruins. An excellent location, reminiscent of Kyiv, which is why the Bogolyubsky Princes chose it. There are also the Golden Gate, Lybid, the Church of Irina, and the Church of Wisdom. I came to the Vladyka for his name day 70; Therefore, he was not at all an extra guest. The elder is a venerable man, but he doesn’t love Moscow too much... 71 Unfortunately, it is not this love that dominates everywhere I happen to be. There are no special reasons for her, but they don’t like her. Judgmental Moscow greeted me with a question: how do I consider my displacement - mercy, or new persecution? And I admit, it was difficult to convince her otherwise. It is truly my destiny to leave all places as if I were disgraced: so I left St. Petersburg once, as a reward for seven years of Egyptian work; so he left Kyiv, in payment for 10 years of hard work; So I had to leave Vologda. A glance at the Synodal Library again awakened in me a strong sadness that we have so far neglected to sort out the treasures piled up in it. No one can feel this sin as much as I do with my Dogmatic Collection. Fortunately, one of the rare things (the Message of Faith in Georgia from our first Patriarch, Job), searched in vain for almost a year in this Library, was found in the Library of the Moscow Academy. I passed through Tula and Orel quickly. In the latter they are working on the establishment of the Edinoverie Church, and I extremely pleased the Oryol Bishop 72 with the notification that he could obtain for this church the most ancient antimension from the collection compiled by me in Vologda. The same message was very useful in Kursk, where there are also fellow believers 73. After this, I see that my work on the collection of ancient antimensions was not in vain: if only they were used properly. Unfortunately, I did not have time to fulfill another proposal - to compile three collections of first-printed books and send them as gifts to three Academies. Will the Holy Synod decide to order this? This is a rich gift for the Academy; and if anywhere you can do this, then in Vologda. This is the promised land of Church Archeology in all forms. How many ancient icons, vessels, notes, books, manuscripts are there! Finally, after 25 days of wandering, by the 25th I reached my Kharkov, at deep midnight, in order to avoid any noise and meeting. This city was good before, but now, after 7 years, it seemed twice as good to me. This is now the true capital of Little Russia, with 45 thousand inhabitants, with huge fairs, which are the first after Makaryevskaya, with many educational institutions, with which Kharkov surpasses all other cities in Russia. The cordiality and diligence of the residents fully rewarded me for the long and difficult journey. If only it were not for the extreme poverty of the Bishop's House, then there would be nothing more to wish for. The house became so depleted of funds that my predecessor 74 decided to send Hieromonk throughout the Diocese to collect alms, both cash and grain, to help the house. This did not stop him, however, from robbing him, one might say, to the last thread, even while leaving the house. In addition to the fact that all the leftovers from the past year were taken, they were not ashamed to steal almost all the money in advance, for my six months, by selling for them unusable and outdated things, not only their own, but even their Economy’s. Incredible shamelessness! And this was done not with just one house of Bishops, but with the whole Diocese.... What, what I could not expect from the newly formed Bishops, was this low passion. Ah, apparently, no amount of education is a defense against passion. This state of affairs prompted me to write to the Count, not a complaint against the governor (God be with him! Let him get by for trade on the Caspian Sea!), but a request to bring the Kharkov House of Bishops under the new states. If any house has the right to accelerate, in relation to it, this grace, then this one. The Bishop of Kiev 75, knowing about this state of ours, wrote to me in Vologda, promising a petition for help. Deign, Your Eminence Master, to support our cause with your voice. Have you deigned to read in foreign newspapers a judgment about the Protestant Bishopric of Jerusalem? Our diplomacy protested against him. But we should not have protested, but should have done long ago what the far-sighted Englishmen and Prussians are now doing, that is, establish their own Episcopate in Jerusalem 76 . One cannot be surprised at the myopia of our administration. What a vast field in the East for us! Everything calls us there, but we run back. Shame and grief! If anything like this were invented, I would be willing to offer my services with all my zeal. For to work in the East for the good of the Church would not be work for me, but a spiritual pleasure. In this way, my long-standing desire would be fulfilled - to be at the Holy Sepulcher. For this, asking for your fatherly blessing to serve in a new place, with a feeling of all-soul filial love and devotion, remains Innocent, Bishop of Kharkov and Akhtyrsky. By sending by post the usual annual report on the progress of the process of drawing up the Dogma. Collection, I presented, at the same time, a list of everything that was collected for this book, asking you to let me know whether it is possible to be satisfied with what has been collected, or to continue collecting further? Since this circumstance, without any doubt, will be proposed by the Count for your appropriate consideration, I hasten to present to Your Eminence a list of articles for the Collection that I have so far prepared, asking you to humbly assist in ensuring that the matter does not continue further. For although one can hope for something from further searches, it is not very much, and secondly, not very soon; for now there remains in mind a small number of such articles, which are in manuscripts in various European Libraries. God knows if they are valuable and if they can be found? And secondly, they all go back to the Middle Ages and are not particularly important. Did you deign to pay attention to the Journal of Min. Enlightenment for January on the article: “On the beginning of Christianity in Poland”? This is the work of my meager pen, and it is highly desirable for me to know the opinion of Your Eminence on the subject of this work. For this is one finished matter, which I am preparing for publication under the name “History of the Polish Church.” I came upon this subject by accident, while looking for sources for the History of the Russian Church. I cannot say how interesting the fate of the Polish Church is, but for us its main interest is that it is an apology, and the most complete one, of the Orthodox Church. Something is happening with my “Last Days” 77 at the St. Petersburg Censorship. At least from Your Eminence to hear something about their fate, and the coming days involuntarily make you remember them. Everything is fine in our blessed Little Russia. Wishing a soul-saving end to Holy Lent and a joyful entry into bright days, I remain with the deepest filial respect and devotion most humble novice, In pronouncing this lofty greeting before you, I dare not on my own unworthiness, but on the strength and Grace of Him who gave the weak wife the grace and strength to be the first to speak the good news to the Apostles of Christ themselves. I have no need to assure Your Eminence of the unchangeability of my good wishes on the occasion of the all-joyful celebration of the Resurrection of our Lord 78. One of my first prayers has always been and will always be, that the Risen Lord and Lord of all will ever overshadow you with His Almighty Grace and watch over you for the good of the Church of Christ. Deign, Most Reverend Master, to send a blessing to me, who is unworthy, so that I may, by the Grace of the Risen One, perform my service unashamedly to the glory of His all-holy name. Innocent, Bishop of Kharkov. Your fatherly concern for the fate of my poor manuscripts, which are in the Censorship, imposes on me the most pleasant obligation to bring you the most zealous, filial gratitude for this. It is only in vain that G. Censor finds it difficult to consider them, as can be concluded from the slowness of the matter. For I, foreseeing that there might be perplexities, at the same time asked the Censorship, through the medium of O. Archpriest Kochetov 79, so that, in case of perplexities, she would be pleased, without hesitation, to return the manuscript back to me, since I do not have the slightest desire to force it into the light. The news you told me made the whole of Russia think, and many people think hard about the future; because no one expected what happened. Thank the Lord that at least Your Eminence remained at the helm of the government of the All-Russian Church 80. This is a strong guarantee for many. May the Lord guide both your thoughts and your right hand for the common good! Last month, I, driven out of patience by the fact that I was required to send articles on the Dogmatic Collection along with the original text, which requires many books that are not there and nowhere to get, officially asked the Count to entrust the completion of this matter to someone else. The answer consisted partly of a concession - dismissal from sending the text, partly of the insistence that my dismissal from this matter could not be without a report to the Sovereign Emperor. All that remains is to ask that they take the trouble to make this report. Really, what kind of people are they? Do everything for them, even the impossible, but they don’t want to do the easiest and most necessary things. I mean to raise the salary of the poorest house of the Bishops of Kharkov, which I asked the Count for in Lent, but so far I have not received anything in response. The other day we received official notification that our city will be blessed with the presence of the Sovereign Emperor next month. In seven cases, a question involuntarily arises for me: how to greet him, silently, or with what kind of greeting? I actually do not have any incentive to expose my weak words and to separate myself in this case from the host of silent congregation. But for the public here, accustomed to my talkativeness, it may seem very strange if I remain silent precisely when they would like to see in me the interpreter of their own feelings. Even, strangely enough, some, perhaps, can explain this silence in an unfavorable way, for example, by some kind of coldness on my part towards the August Visitor. And so, do you deign to accept your father’s work, look from the height of your position at our circumstances and tell us which of the two times of Ecclesiastes is coming to our situation: the time to remain silent, or the time to speak? And we will do everything as you tell us; for I repeat, for me it is more convenient to love, as if safe from fear, silence. You take from us the Rector to Kazan 81 and give us the Inspector of the St. Petersburg Academy 82 . It’s a wonderful thing for us, but have you thought well about the fate of the New Academy?.. Father Archimandrite John is a wonderful man, but the manager is not like that. However, a new field can awaken new activity. God willing! The fate of the Academy means a lot, and I am very glad that my idea about Kazan, which I have officially expressed more than once, has finally found its fruition. Can't we ask for something small to fix the house here, which in some parts is extremely neglected, and there are no means of fixing the household? For this, we resolutely promise to save up to 150 thousand from the construction of the Seminary; We give a candle income of up to 100 thousand per year, which is not available anywhere else, in Moscow itself. For such zeal, you can give 12 thousand in alms without sin. For this, betraying ourselves and all our great and small needs to your fatherly providence, with a feeling of the deepest filial love and devotion remains Is it not possible to know at least half of what kind of trouble that befell the Bishop of Kiev during the past Great Lent? Your precious lines, testifying to your truly fatherly goodwill towards me, filled me with a feeling of lively gratitude. But the question with which I dared to bother your attention was resolved by itself even before receiving your wise and merciful answer. In offering it, I did not know that in 26 there was a circular to the Eparch. To your Eminences with the Highest will about not speaking. After finding it in the local Archives, there was nothing to ask. However, I must also convey to Your Eminence with all sincerity that I actually had no desire to occupy the Highest attention with my meager speech. The Emperor was with us for a very short time; in the evening, at about 6 o'clock, I arrived, and the next day, at 12 o'clock, I deigned to leave. Our meeting took place safely, although we were in danger of not doing our job properly, having been officially informed twice in the church that His Majesty would like to go straight to the apartment. It turned out the opposite, as I foresaw, and we thanked ourselves a lot for not believing the news we were receiving. In Chuguevo, in the middle of the camp, he listened to a small mass, and was very pleased with those who served, rewarding them with gifts. Unfortunately, on the civilian side, some unforeseen little things spoiled the goodwill of the August Visitor; however, many things improved greatly for him here, especially the prosperity of the city, which pleasantly surprised him with many new beautiful buildings. I accept your judgment about my charters, which were under Censorship, with all humility. I sent them as nothing more than a test. Although there is nothing heretical in them, the current circumstances are such that hunters of heresies can easily find something to become attached to in them, and I have long been tired of dealing with the Inquisition. I think I’ll finally start working on the collection this fall, unless my health changes, especially my eyesight, which doesn’t allow me to read for a long time. Meanwhile, I would like to prepare for publication several Lenten conversations and Vologda sermons, at the request of Vologda residents. Everyone feels that the position of Your Eminence, after the departure of previous figures from the field, has become special 83. May the Lord make you wise and strengthen you with His Grace! About the events that took place in your country, rumor has long spread a lot of news, probably exaggerated, but more or less gloomy. What happened should have been expected a long time ago. This has been written about more than once in foreign newspapers. The Holy Synod is now dealing with the restoration of the Akhtyrsky Monastery in the local Diocese. Do not forsake him by your gracious participation. The monastery is really very necessary; there are and will be all means for him; the attention of the residents is highly aroused. Therefore, refusal would be a kind of moral cruelty. Devoting myself to your holy prayers, with a feeling of deepest spiritual respect, I am forever I hasten to respond to your most respected letter as soon as possible and, first of all, to justify myself to you in the complaint against me, as if I had not accepted G. Manager of the Potemkins. Is this possible when my cells are always open to big and small? Did this happen while I was living in a country house for several weeks in the summer? But what was it worth going three or four miles to see me? It seems to me that there is another reason for not meeting. G. This manager is now only when the estate went to Gg. Potemkin, apparently became disposed towards a cause pleasing to God. And before, he didn’t even want to hear about this and, being a Lutheran, constantly proved himself to be an enemy of our clergy and the Church. This is how reliable people described it to me. I will be sincerely glad when I see him different from this unfavorable portrait. I reply to G. Potemkin via the same mail, leaving it entirely to their will to build a monastery for men. At the same time, I let them know in detail what it will cost to restore the monastery, and that we have almost no means for this. The zeal of willing donors is now occupied by the Akhtyrsky Monastery, and it would be inappropriate to split it into two for the time being. The main costs will consist not only in the restoration of the monastery buildings (for this, G. reconstructors have almost all of their own materials), but also in the contribution of money to the treasury for the monastery’s salary; for it is difficult to expect that the Holy Synod would decide to accept this at the expense of the treasury itself; but there is no reason for us to ask for it at all. And will their donation for this ruin any 50 thousand? Do it, do it! I am sincerely glad that my idea of ​​sending a clergyman to Jerusalem came true. It was not in vain that I wrote about this very thing a year before this. It’s just a shame, in my opinion, that the ambassador was taken from Vienna. This will certainly give rise to controversy in foreign magazines. Oh, you can't outwit them! How they know everything! And how they enter into all the details of what is happening in our Church! The Transbaikal event is a true blessing from God, and new proof of how much we need at least a small missionary institute! To the Kazan Academy (so soon and hardly deliberately improvised) to provide this sacred task? Between the Hierarchical changes, one thing is strange: why the St. Petersburg Vicariate was not granted to the Rector of the Academy. In this way, his abilities would be given legitimate exercise, and he would be saved from interference in other people's affairs. I have already received several notifications about the completion of the case about the Akhtyrsky Monastery, but there is still no case. And donations are going very well. Yesterday a dying man bequeathed 5,000 rubles to him. Censorship still hasn’t returned my “last days”, I don’t know why. But it would seem that the matter is very simple: simply return it under the pretext that they are not finished, as I asked G. Censor to do. The residents of Vologda want me to publish at least a few sermons that they have spoken. What remained in my memory, I put it on paper, and a book came out. But I don’t know what to do with it and where to send it to Censorship. Is it not even necessary to ask for the blessing of the Holy Synod, as others did? Kindly instruct me. Until now we had no idea about the house and our needs, because we had not yet drawn up an estimate for the lack of an Architect, but in Genvar we hope to do this. Do not leave us with your intercession. For this I wish Your Eminence a safe entry into the upcoming holiday, and, devoting myself entirely to your fatherly love, with a feeling of the deepest filial respect and devotion, I remain most merciful Father and Archpastor, Your Eminence Vladyka, The Holy Church has already finished joyful hymns for the glory of the appearance on earth of the Son of God, the Redeemer of men; The Orthodox children of the Church have already peacefully entered the gates of the new summer; and I will stagnate before you in silence, I have not had time to appear until now to receive a new fatherly blessing from you in the new year. I hasten to reward this at the Jordan, where, without a doubt, your spirit is now located, bowing my head under your Archpastoral blessing. Do not deprive, Most Christ-loving Master, of your prayers and wise guidance from him who with all his heart desires to be forever R.S. I received a review of my Calvary by G. Raikovsky 84, and I can’t think of whether, with intention or without intention, he fell into the gravest mistake, attributing to the author those opinions that are expressed on behalf of the Jewish people. What do we care if the Jews were wrong? This alone explains why they did not accept the Messiah. As for the perplexities of the Apostles, the Evangelists themselves do not hide them at all, and St. Chrysostom has hundreds of them in his Interpretation. Some expressions could be simply crossed out if you don’t like them. I don’t feel sorry for the book, but I feel sorry for the trial, truly Shemyakinsky. The book was published in the most turbulent times, no better than today, and yet I never heard such comments from anyone at that time. The Eminence of Moscow 85 could have noticed this more than anyone, but he never told me this, but touched lightly on some other things, all of which I corrected. They are silent for some reason. Potemkins. For Dogma. I need a collection of Councils. I brought this to the attention of the Count: 86 he promised to deliver, but I still had not received it, and I thought that the delivery order had been left. What then? Yesterday I received a letter from the Bishop of Kyiv 87, who writes that the Count approached him about this back in the spring, but the paper fell apart and has been forgotten until now. This is how we help our work for the benefit of the Church! When will you get the books again? and the Count often asks. Please convey this to him, if necessary. It’s especially awkward to write about this: it will be a kind of complaint. When considering our ideas about spiritual rewards, please do not leave under your protection the Akhtyra Father Archpriest Kustov, the Abbess of the Kharkov Monastery Palladia, and the Dean of Archpriest Malinovsky. People are truly worthy. Whenever I congratulated you, I always congratulated you on the holidays: let me congratulate you at least once on Great Lent; for I am sure that for you Holy Lent is as pleasant as a great holiday. And at the same time, allow me to present to you a new, home edition of the book compiled for Lent. At another time, it would be ashamed to appear before you with such a meager offering; and among the Lenten meal there may be a place for these small grains collected from the breaking of spiritual bread 88. Following this little book, her other sister, Holy Week 89, will appear before your face: may she not lose your favorable gaze. And my Vologda charters have been somewhat stale in Kyiv: for the holiday, however, I hope to have the pleasure of presenting them to you instead of a red egg, according to the rite of the Orthodox children of the Church. I would also like to publish the Prayer of St. Ephraim 90, this is the pearl of our prayers, in teachings, but the time of fasting flies so quickly that the Printing House does not have time to do anything. Will this reveal one thought that I have long wanted to tell you? Will we soon wait for the publication of your teachings? Those who know you and them all desire this. Of course, there will always be time for this good deed: but it cannot be denied that modernity means a lot for such things. The exaltation of Warsaw more than Kyiv and Moscow was not expected anywhere; even more so, probably, in Kyiv and Moscow. But the Tsar’s heart is in the hand of God, and he may delight and guide it. Walking among the golden lamps, of course, he will not forget the candlestick Russian Church, and if he allows someone to ascend to him, then for wise reasons and for good purposes. Otherwise, what would faith in the Church, which is so strongly inspired by the Creed, mean? 91 In Kyiv, they say, there was quite a bit of embarrassment due to some kind of revision of paintings in the Lavra Church. As far as I know this matter, that is, the renovation of painting (for it began during my time), it did not deserve such distrust from the highest authorities; for it was done both deliberately and with all conscientiousness. It is true that one can wish for a better brush, but one must remember the means; The Lavra is very poor in them, although some people think that it has a lot of them. The Potemkins (to whom you are kind enough to give the book from me) for some reason are not starting business about the Svyatogorsk Monastery. Have you changed your mind? That would be a pity. For the place is definitely worthy of a monastery, and would be the decoration and edification of an entire region, poor in church relics. I finally received books from Kyiv for my Collection. It turned out that the reason for the slowdown was most accidental: the paper about these books fell among the others and lay untouched until now. Next spring, with God’s help, I hope to finish this matter that has been dragging on for so long. Asking for the Hierarch’s blessing and your prayers, I remain with a feeling of everlasting filial love and respect Accept, Christ-loving Master, this short greeting instead of all the ordinary greetings offered to each other on the bright day of Christ’s Rising from the dead 92. If anyone knows, then you know that in this short word of joy lies everything for a Christian, the immovable foundation of Faith, the object of love, and the guarantee of eternal hope. Receive and grant by Your Holy Right hand a blessing from the face of the Risen Lord to me, unworthy, so that I may, with all my flock, unashamedly glorify His Most Holy Name. Last week the new Lord of the Caucasus 93 visited me on his way. Not without sorrow, a new path to an unprecedented place. But, thank God, his health, which had previously been very weak, was now quite strengthened. And he was never lacking in zeal to work for the glory of God. It seems everything will be fine. In Kyiv, according to him, there is great confusion and considerable sorrow. Particularly disturbing was some Commission on Lavra painting. What to do? Laurels have always been decorated with sorrows. Last week, I hastened to present to you my little book from Vologda 94, so that it would be first in your holy hands, from which we once received the seeds of the Word of God, now, if possible, we are growing them. Due to this haste, the messenger could not change the Kyiv clothes for festive attire. I wanted this, according to the ancient custom of Orthodox Christians, to serve instead of an Easter egg. G. Potemkina writes again about the monastery, and even asks to send her a draft request to the Holy Synod. I will not fail to fulfill what is required with the next mail. But I wonder at their complaint about the slowness. On whom does the matter depend, if not on them? May God grant us to manage our small means and the Akhtyrsky Monastery. And let them work on Svyatogorsky themselves. And is it difficult for them to accomplish this holy deed? O cares of the century! O addiction to acquisitions! Who is not blinded by the dust of worldly vanity! However, when meeting with them, please be kind enough to assure them of our full readiness to help in any way we can. Svyatogor is truly worth rejoicing about from the heart. For this, again betraying myself to your fatherly love, and again asking for the Hierarch’s blessing, I remain with the deepest respect Deign to accept from the heart, devoted to you, the most ardent greeting with all-joyful celebration of the birth in the flesh of our Lord and Savior. May He fill your good soul with peace and grace and may He rejoice your heart with the joy that has shone from His most pure and all-holy manger! This is my diligent prayer both for the New Year and for all those to come, until it pleases the Lord of times and years to hear it on earth from me, unworthy! I think that you have now completely calmed down from the visible and invisible worries of the past life of St. Petersburg 95. As far as I know, although from my little experience in it, it is very similar to a military field, where there is not always, of course, a battle, but one must always have weapons with oneself. According to your promise, before leaving the North, I expected some notifications, which you considered necessary to share with me. If this need has not passed, then let me hope that I will not be completely deprived of them. For for me, the North is an alien country, and yet I constantly need to do business with it. In the middle of last summer, Tatyana Borisovna 96 visited us, and together with her we visited the Holy Mountains: an extraordinary place. The matter that had previously begun about the monastery, as a result of this visit, quickly moved forward. Now, for about a month, it has been in the Holy Synod, and we think we will see its end before the beginning of the New Year. The conditions we have concluded with the restorers are very moderate, even meager; but we hope more from their souls and hearts than from signatures on paper: that’s why we didn’t agree on anything. Holy Mountain Akhtyrskaya begins to be built. But it’s amazing how the soil hinders success in work. As if on purpose to atone for the monastic patience, it consists of huge stones lying on loose sand. How can a building be approved? At the end of summer, however, they emerged from the ground and next year the monastery will have walls. The surrounding people look with joy at this renovation of the ancient holy place and testify to their zeal in the way possible for them. According to the power of the ancient commandment not to appear before the tabernacle skinny in the new summer, I considered it my duty to appear to you with a small supplement. The next post will put it at your feet. This is a new edition of a collection of various previous books of mine, made by G. Pogodin in Moscow 97 . If in this work there is anything useful for a spiritual meal, then many of the seeds that were subsequently raised were taken from your pure lips and hands, which once so tirelessly sowed in the Orlovsky nursery. For this, devoting myself entirely to your fatherly love and asking for the Archpastoral blessing with a feeling of the deepest respect and devotion, I am ever most humble son and servant, Shared sadness weakens, but shared joy intensifies. With this in mind, I hasten to come to you with the joy of the Resurrection, and even more with the joy of the Risen Savior and Lord 98. For it is natural for the spiritual Sun, which has risen from the grave, to reflect its rays most where it is more acceptable for them. Deign, O Christ-loving Archpastor, to say for us the all-joyful thing: Christ is risen! I say: for us; for in my person the entire Kharkov flock asks for the Holy Hierarch’s blessing. most humble servant and novice, P.S. Instead of the red Easter face, please accept several non-red eggs: not red, because they were prepared not for the bright days of the holiday, but for the gloomy days of Lent, and even more so because the one who prepared them is still far from the holy face of those who, following unswervingly the Lord of souls and hearts, cleanse their red feet, as befitting. Welcoming you with great joy, as if the Savior of the world was born, who is Christ the Lord, the Kharkov flock, together with its unworthy shepherd, most humbly ask for your holy prayers for the coming summer. Deign, Most Christ-loving Master, to accept with love this expression of love and spiritual respect for you, and deign to give a blessing to those who see in it a sign of heavenly blessings. everlasting and unchanging novice, Innocent, Bishop of Kharkov 99. Following this, two small new books are coming to you, one of which is for the upcoming holiday 100. May your love for the eternal Child replenish what is lacking in them to correspond to an object so lofty and divine. At the manger and the cross of Christ, every word and the very thought involuntarily weakens and is lost from the excess of their height and depth. If to anyone, then this greeting comes to you first from the heart and soul. I rarely get the chance to talk with you, although I constantly want to learn from you; may at least the silence be broken at the manger and tomb of Christ. Here is the best date for those who love the Lord Jesus. May He strengthen your strength for further service to His beloved helicopter city, and may He give us the consolation to rejoice for a long time in the fruits of your labors! Bless the name of the Risen One Your most diligent servant and Innocent, Bishop of Kharkov. Peace and joy in the Lord! We thank you most earnestly, Holy Master, for sending both the Akathist and Palmer’s Confession of Faith 102. On occasion, we will not fail to benefit from both. I am glad that the Pokrovsky Akathist was in your spirit. But now you can’t send it. Everything went wild. It will be printed again and then sent. Now the Akathist of the Passion 103 has been sent, just printed. Please supply those who wish. There will be two more, already prepared: the Resurrection and the Holy Trinity. Experience shows that this is one of the favorite readings for the Orthodox people. Have you read the Theological work of the local Father Inspector of the Academy? How did it look to you? A guide to Church Jurisprudence by Father Archpriest Skvortsov will be published in Kyiv. Quite a book. One of these days I will also have The Fall of Adam - conversations for Lent. Why won’t you collect and publish your creations? After all, you have quite a few of them. As a young boy, the Eternal God also exists, and again calls us all to His den and manger. The path to sensual Bethlehem is known to everyone. It is difficult to go to spiritual Bethlehem successfully without a spiritual leader. In the firm confidence that Your Eminence is now on this holy path, and we dare, in the spirit of faith and love, to join you, and under your experienced guidance, we will walk comfortably to the mental Bethlehem and be worthy of worshiping the One who now rests, no longer in a manger, but in pure and humble hearts. Do not reject, Holy Master, even the weak from your holy community; but zealous companions to Bethlehem and, as a guarantee of success, to encourage weakness, deign to send them your new blessing from the face of the incarnate Lord, under which you humbly and with reverence filially bow your head to the ground most humble novice. Innocent, Archbishop of Kharkov, with all the Kharkov flock about Christ. The past year was marked for us, by the grace of God, with the opening of a new monastery, on which occasion, joyful for us, it was impossible not to belch out from the heart some, albeit semi-good, word. The two mites that came from here are cast down, like a zealous gift, at the feet of Your Eminence. The Monument of the Orthodox Faith 105, which had been lying on my weak shoulders like a mountain for about 9 years, finally moved from its place: half of it (until the 10th century) passed already in the past September to the North, and the other should pass in the future Genvar. I don’t know what will follow with this child of many years and sighs: but the end of the matter itself pleases me unspeakably. I can’t imagine a more dry, cold and tiring job. Where it is written out of sheer duty and decency, turns of words and phrases are inevitable; and where writers are guided by spiritual respect and love, there a simple feeling and heart operates. And so, instead of all artificial greetings, let me say before you on the bright day of the Resurrection of Christ 106 one simple greeting to the common mother of our Church: Christ is risen! and ask for your holy prayers and your Archpastoral blessing so that as much as you can correspond with your actions to that ineffable love with which we are all honored by our Lord and Savior who died for us and rose again for us. ever sincere servant, Innocent, Archbishop of Kharkov. At your request, I hasten to inform you that in Kharkov we do not have any Church of the Edinoverie, which would exist on special rights, and what exists, as you deign to see from the copy of the report of the Edinoverie Priest, follows the Charter of the Edinoverie, the so-called Platonovsky. The priest here remembers how your Old Believers 107, two years before this, were in Kharkov, among other things, in his church, but he does not know what could give them the idea of ​​​​the difference between his church and other Edinoverie. By the grace of God, several hundred souls have recently turned to Edinoverie, and all of them willingly submitted to the general rules regarding Edinoverie. I was very glad to learn from your letter that G. Temkin is with you 108; for he, one might say, disappeared from Svyatogorsk; having supposedly gone to Kharkov, he remained unknown to us until you deigned to let us know about him. We tried our best to be useful to him. If he found any unkindness in Svyatogorsk, then it was almost his fault, although perhaps he himself did not notice it. His habits were too inconsistent with the life of the hermits, and instead of being secretive, he almost boasted of them publicly. However, he is a kind old man, and I feel very sorry for him. It’s really not bad for him to visit St. Petersburg, but with what appearance will he appear there? It doesn't hurt to think about it. We not only didn’t ask for the financial mercy that was shown to us last spring, we didn’t even think about it: we didn’t know about its possibility. She fell like snow (albeit in the spring) on ​​her head. But, according to the certificate, it is revealed that this measure, begun with us sinners, must gradually extend to all those in need. Therefore, you can be sure that upon first notification of your needs, this measure will be applied to you. I deliberately talked about this with G. Voitsekhovich, who came to see me. He assured me not only of the possibility, but also of the convenience and ease of achieving this. How? The most convenient way, it seems, is through a letter to the Count, if this is not contrary to anything on your part. I also received news about the Monument. It is being prepared for publication, and the finished copy will be reported to the one on whom its final fate depends. The famous G. Sturdza 109 do you know what he did? Having translated my First Week into French, I published it in Paris and then submitted it to the Empress in Italy. All this would not be such a great sin; but since now there is great religious irritation against us in foreign countries. newspapers and magazines, then one had to be wary of terrible antics and attacks on this occasion. Things worked out, however, as well as could have been wished for. Several of the reviews I have received are such that I am almost ashamed to read them. So they breathe praise. When I receive more of this translation (now I have only two books), I will try to present it to Your Eminence as an interesting novelty. I advised G. Sturdze to make a similar translation from the sermons of His Eminence Philaret, and he made a promise. I just don’t know whether he will be able to fulfill it; for, they say (I have never seen him), he is very old. О. Арх. John 110, please tell me that his request for a place for a student was fulfilled by me in all accuracy. For this, devoting himself entirely to your love and bowing his head to the ground under your blessings and prayers, he remains with filial respect always a servant in everything, By the mercy of the Lord, we have been given the opportunity to get even closer to the all-joyful celebration of the Nativity of Christ and to the gates of the new summer of Grace. Since ancient times, the faithful children of the Orthodox Church have been accustomed to visit each other on this occasion with mutual greetings and good wishes. Following this good custom, we also hasten to appear before you with fervent prayer to the Lord, that He may preserve your life for many years to come, for the benefit of the Orthodox Church and for the consolation of those who love you, and with a fervent petition to you yourself; may we not be forgotten in your love and in your holy prayers in the new summer. Deign, Most Reverend Master, to accept these feelings as a sign of unchanging love for Christ and complete spiritual respect for you Your most humble servant, Innocent, Arch. Kharkovsky. Instead of a New Year's gift, please accept the French Week, about which, it seems, I wrote to you before 111. The past autumn was not fruitless for me with the completion of some previous works: suddenly four books appeared: Two: 1) The Fall of Adam - presented in conversations and 2) Great Lent, are already being printed and should be published in time for Lent. Will you have any hunters for this news? Bless us, Most Reverend Master, for the sake of the great feast of the Lord, and accept from us the all-joyful Christ is Risen 112 We, thank God, spent the Holy Lent safely, and now at the Holy Sepulcher we are preparing for the joy of the Resurrection. May the resurrected Lord protect you from all evil and circumstances! Over the past weeks, a new book for Lent has been sent to you. For the first time, it seemed possible to use it in this form for the benefit of those who wished it. Afterwards it will be possible to add or replace what is needed. Meanwhile, the author of it will be greatly obliged if Your Eminence deigns to express your opinion on what requires correction or improvement. It is heard that the Vladyka of Novgorod 113 will again suffer the same infirmity. May the Lord have mercy on him! Kazansky is also weakening 114, although simply due to old age. And we all, more or less, decay, so that Solomon’s words may be fulfilled: a generation passes away and a generation comes 115. Apparently, we need to think about another earth and another sky. For this, devoting myself entirely to the fatherly love of your holy prayers, with a feeling of unchanging devotion and deepest respect remains most humble servant, Innocent, Arch. Kharkovsky. We are cruelly guilty before you, Holy Master, for our silence and non-response to your previous loving writing to us. But, for God's sake, do not judge us based on our words. For whether we speak or remain silent, we always love and respect you: God is my witness! I wanted to answer upon arrival at place 116. But then, from the very beginning, illness visited us, so it was impossible to write home for a long time. And then I wanted to look around the new place. Yes, it is new to us, although once, after seven years of wandering here 117, it was quite familiar. My God, so many changes! Of all the former, known things, little remains, like the unharmed classes in the fields. The English cases you suggested are no longer in use at all. Because of this, everyone is concerned a lot about the affairs of Livonia. They are not without success: only every step must be taken, almost like in the Caucasus, in battle 118 . The Lord Almighty, however, invisibly conducts His work. Other circumstances closest to us are known to you without reminder. What began and grew under you 119 has now matured and risen. The end of all this is seen by God alone. Your advice completely agrees with my own thoughts and observations. Such circumstances cannot be overcome either by wisdom or human efforts. A finger from above is needed here. A certain wave of it begins to be noticed, but not to such a degree of clarity that one can accurately follow this indicator. All that remains is to overcome everything with patience and prayer. For this reason, do not abandon us by prayerfully helping us amid the troubles here. The prayer of faith and love for Christ can do a lot. Please accept the small book attached. It was developed from the Pochaev Akathist on the occasion of our establishment of a religious procession with the miraculous icon of the Mother of God. It will be no small favor if you, after reading this little book, tell us your opinion. For from the same Akathist, three more similar Akathists were chosen: 1, for the Resurrection of the Lord; 2, on the Lord's Passion, 3, and in honor of the Holy Trinity. I wanted to give each of our new monasteries a spiritual gift. The people, as experience in Kharkov has shown, are very fond of such things and enjoy them. It’s not all about preaching: you can serve spiritual food in this way too. Placing himself at the feet of Your Eminence to receive the fatherly blessing, with a feeling of unchanging love for Christ and perfect devotion remains We hasten to you, Holy Master, not with grand news and not with good wishes for the West, but with a simple word of peace and love about Christ. May the new summer truly be the summer of the Lord’s Grace for you, and may it bring with it all the blessings from above that you need! This will be our fervent prayer. Especially do not abandon us with your prayers, us who now have the privilege of lying among the waves of the sea, in the very autumn weather... You know them from experience. There is only hope in the unceasing gaze of the One who can banish every storm with a single word. Your time-to-time conversation in the new summer will be a true balm for the soul. Therefore, do not skimp on devoting part of your free minutes to us, Wanderers in the land of aliens. According to the custom of our ancestors, we ask you to favorably accept a book of Kharkov products for the New Year. It's hard to do anything like that here 120 . It is highly advisable to read your opinion about it. Be strict in court. We have long abandoned the writer's pride, which is offended by impartial judgment. This, in our opinion, is the lot of illiteracy. You will say: and here there is a kind of pride. May be. But if it is impossible to free yourself from all self-love before the time comes, then it is better to have the latter than the former. Bless for the new summer Your always-in-spirit son, I dared to write to you formlessly, precisely with the intention of humbly asking you for the same thing. Do we care about Forms and titles? With us and around us, thank God, everything is fine: only my health suffers greatly from the change in climate and lifestyle, not only Physical, but most morally. We are accustomed, thank God, to a different way of life, and we would not exchange it for anything. More days are coming, in which heaven and earth will copulate to glorify the Life-Giver who has risen from the grave 121. Moreover, it is fitting for the ministers of His word and sacraments in these days to copulate in spirit for the glory of His most holy name. After this, both thought and heart rush to you of their own accord, so that from your lips they can hear the all-joyful message: Christ is risen! and answer you joyfully: He is risen in truth! Mutual co-living by faith and love, even in Christ, is always beneficial, especially in our turbulent times, when the truth of God apparently carries out its great and terrible judgments on kingdoms and nations, which in the wisdom of God did not want to understand the wisdom of God, With the beginning of next May, we hope to go to our new country. The Lord would grant that he would go irrevocably: but it seems difficult to achieve this. It’s hard to part with our beloved, and now we can say, Kharkov, which loved us. But since this turned out to be inevitable, it was impossible to choose a better place like Odessa, with its favorable climate 122. This is the mercy of the Monarch! Instead of a red Easter egg, please accept the unadorned word. Neither heart nor hand could resist responding, even with childish babble, to the loving voice of the Tsarev. Innocent, Arch. Kherson. To the Most Reverend Bishop in the new year of the new Grace of the Lord! May it be and abound in your good and pure heart! And we, despite all the vicissitudes of our fate, by the mercy of the Lord, are still healthy and safe. We visited the South; We surveyed as much as possible all of Pomorie. There is a vast field for work: New Russia! If anyone, then the Lord of Kherson, needs to live in his place - at home: for this is the spiritual outpost of Russia before the East. It is even more difficult for us to be absent; for we do not yet know our flock. Therefore, the diligent thought of returning home. Pray for us, that the Lord will resolve our bonds here 123. Everything around and among us is peaceful. The new Lord 124 entered a new field with good spirits and strength. Everyone is delighted by his good disposition and kind behavior. Equally, there is complete love and affection for him from everyone. May the Lord grant him to work for the benefit of the Holy Church! Please accept a contribution from our poor pen. Written by Decree of the Holy Synod. The matter was not entirely convenient: but I am glad that I could bring some of myrrh to the elder’s tomb 125. Should I send you a Frenchman? translation of the 1st Week for those who wish? It was recently published again. It was also published in Greek 126. Why don’t you deign to share troubled conversations with Orthodox Russia? The public loves such works. Asking for your holy prayers and fatherly blessings, with unchanging love for Christ and filial devotion remains When discussing in the Holy Synod about filling the opening vacancy of the Rector in the Nizhyn Annunciation Monastery, your Father Archimandrite John, the former Rector of the Kazan Academy 127, was remembered. If he doesn’t like his current location and agrees to move to Nizhyn, then this move can very easily follow. But in this case, please tell me your opinion about his complete trustworthiness for this new place; for it is precisely such a rector that is needed there. Asking for your blessing and holy prayers for the coming fast, with full spiritual respect for you, he remains and will remain Deign to hear with love and from us, who are spiritually loving and devoted to you, the all-joyful message: Christ is risen! 128 And, in return for this and a reward, deign to give us a fatherly blessing from the face of the Risen Lord, which we will accept as if from the hand of the Lord. By the grace of God, we have already spent another winter 129 in a foreign land, and now we are getting ready to set off for the summer, back home. These journeys, especially the return ones, are not without labor and sorrow; but there is no way to get rid of them until the time comes. One consolation is that while staying here, it is more convenient to do something for your region, which, according to the news, needs many things. Again and again, bowing your head under the shadow of your holy prayers, with unchanging reverence and complete love for Christ remains O. John, as it was willed for him, may he remain in peace in his place until some other lot falls from above. On the blessed days of universal joy about the salvation of the world, deign to accept the most ardent greetings from the heart, once and forever devoted to you. May the Lord prosper all your paths in the new year of His Grace! This is our fervent prayer! Vouchsafe, O Holy Master, to give us a fatherly blessing for new endeavors and labors for the glory of God. For we firmly believe that blessings bestowed in the spirit of living Faith and love in Christ are the key to success for those being blessed. Your Eminence rightly has thoughts on how to get rid of the surplus of students in the Dioceses. Kindly communicate them to us, who are assigned to work on resolving this intractable issue. We will cope with the Seminary students: we will transfer the best to the Seminary, and at that a known (normal) number; but from here there will be an accumulation in the District Schools: what to do with them? Where to put the extra ones? They are thinking of destroying the Parish Schools, obliging fathers to teach their children what is taught in them. This is good. But what to do with orphans: who will teach them? 130 To the Most Reverend Bishop the most ardent, truly filial greeting on the Bright days of the Resurrection of the Lord 131. May that joy come with them to his soul from the face of the Risen One, which the world not only can give, but cannot even know. But for us, almost the entire Holy Lent was spent within four walls, from a serious illness that lasted only a few hours (colic in the back and chest), and deprived us of strength for entire months. Now, thank God, we are already beginning to stand before the altar of the Lord as before and, taking advantage of our position (they say it is true that there is no evil without good), we are preparing to return to our homeland in the spring 132. If your ancient Principality had not become so far from our path, we would certainly have visited you in order to be comforted by our common Faith and love at least once in our lives. Rev. Gregory 133 has been about two weeks since he arrived here completely healthy and complacent; He's just complaining about summer. Who would have thought that he already had 66 of them? But according to correct calculations, it definitely comes out to be about that. Rev. Jacob 134 can barely walk or breathe. His ascetic home life robbed him of almost all his strength for public service. The elder is truly respectable and kind! May God grant him to return whole to his flock! It should be in June. What a pity it is for the former Vladyka of Voronezh! 135 He served us all as a true consolation with his honest and witty disposition. Both illness and death came to him from his many books. Here, even without them, it is difficult to maintain health. So that Your Eminence can collect your teachings into one and publish them? Bishop of Kazan did this 136, and everyone is grateful to him. You are sure to find no less. Right, it's time! The demand for spiritual books is great. All of them are long gone, some even from me. It would be necessary to make a new complete edition, but there is no time. The other day, some amateurs here forcibly stamped Lent. Once again peace, health and joy to you in the Risen Lord! It is with special pleasure that I take the pen in my hands to greet Your Eminence with a special sign of favor from the Monarchs. It has been fully deserved by you for a long time, and will be no less different from you, just as it will be different from you. May the Lord strengthen your strength for further service to the Church of Christ, which from one end to the other of the Fatherland recognizes you as one of its most worthy Archpastors. We don’t need to describe our feelings for you in detail: they have been and will always remain the same: sincere filial love and perfect devotion. My health really suffered greatly from the illness, 137 but, thank God, now I am almost in the same position. The spring journey home, I hope, will serve instead of the final cure. We ask most earnestly for your holy prayers on this path, which should begin from the first days of May. To the Most Reverend Bishop, our most fervent greetings on the day of universal salvation and the new summer of the Grace of the Lord. May it bring with it new strength and new help from above for you to serve the Orthodox Church, which has so many reasons to be consoled by your pastoral exploits. And we, thank God, are beginning to rest from our previous wanderings in countries, although not alien, but not our own. As if to encourage us in our new place of residence, we had a wonderful autumn that continued almost until now. On the day of St. Nicholas 138 it was up to 12 degrees Celsius. The sea, like an endless green-blue veil, quietly spreads around our shores; With Epiphany, they say, the spring sun and air should begin. All this has a beneficial effect not only on the body, but also on the spirit. And our Crimea, thank God, begins to thaw from the Mohammedan ice. The new monastery of Bakchisarai apparently attracts the friendly, and best of all, attention of the Tatars 139 . Not a week goes by without some Tatar family appearing, asking as a favor to be admitted into the cave church; those admitted kneel before the image of the Mother of God and pray with tears. The whole ego encourages the labors of the new holy place. And the work, it must be admitted, is not small, due to the lack of funds, and the remoteness of the place from here, and the foreignness of the inhabitants. There is only hope in the Lord, who does not leave without help those who work diligently and with faith in His helicopter city. Do not abandon us, Holy Master, with your prayers. Instead of all greetings on the bright days of the Resurrection of the Lord 140, deign to accept from us this all-joyful and worldwide greeting, and bless us with your fatherly blessing about Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Through your prayers, we remain healthy and continue to carry out the deeds of our holy calling in the world. What a great difference it is to be at home and wander around in a foreign country!... We saw almost no winter, or, more precisely, snow, so the sleigh was left unused. For this reason, strong winds on sea and land have more than once thrown into confusion not only the soulless, but also all living things. In Genvar we almost suffered a fire, which, however, served for the good; for for this reason the house, which is very inconvenient, will be improved for the better. Nothing special has been heard from St. Petersburg. Yesterday an Architect arrived to us from there, sent, at my request, for the Seminary, which we are moving from the city (not Seminarsky at all) to the monastery, 10 miles away. Our Crimea, that is, the new desert habitation according to the order of Athos, is going well, thank God: there are up to a dozen good elders, and more are not needed for the first time; for dwellings have not yet been built for these. Father Polycarp 141 accepted your blessing with appropriate filial feeling. We are truly rich in this man. The Lord sent him to us! He is also pleased, and does not think about anything other than the salvation of himself and his neighbors. The circle of the church, with its annual rotation, led us to the Divine manger of Christ, and the circle of heaven to the sacred gates of the new summer of Grace. On days like these, how can you not transport your thoughts to Your Eminence, devote yourself to your prayers and ask you for a new fatherly blessing for the new summer? Vouchsafe, O Holy Master, to teach this in the spirit of faith and love in Christ to those who, with the same faith and love, bow their heads to it with all their souls! The past year has been a year of travel and construction for me. In other places it is enough to see and survey; here you need to mature, and do, and build. For the region is still far from being called organized, although much of the civil, and especially the naval, part has been brought to approximate perfection. And our monasteries in Crimea, glory to Beg, emerge from the ground and take on the appearance befitting of Holy places. But this is not an annual matter, but many decades. The main drawback is in people who are able to bear the burden of the initial, not yet established, skete existence. If Your Eminence sent us a couple of such persons, we would bow to you to the face of the earth for that. Again devoting myself to holy prayers and your fatherly love, with unchanging spiritual devotion and respect for you remains and will forever remain First of all, deign to accept our most sincere greetings on the upcoming bright festivals of the Lord and on the new summer of the Grace of Christ. May its profound new light shine in your Christ-loving heart and may it strengthen you to continue your good work in the city of Christ! And we, with all our infirmities, are back in the midst of the noise and splendor of the capital, 142 which, if useful for us, is especially so because it arouses and intensifies in us the thirst for Crimean desert life, which, thank the Lord, although with slow steps, moves forward and puts out roots and branches throughout the entire Tauride mountain range. A lot of work, especially for our weak ramen; but the Lord visibly and invisibly blessed the beginning, therefore exploits for the future are gratifying. Don't leave us with your prayers! Here everything goes on in peace and silence. The Lord speaks in the heart of His Anointed One about the Church and its needs: therefore, one can reliably hope for any improvement over time. How is your health? But can you also move to the North? You would be received with love here. And we wait and can’t wait for next spring to return to our home. This is urgently required both by the state of our health, which is greatly upset, and by the state of our region, which is new and therefore unsettled, and therefore requires constant vigil over it and the eyes of the owner. How I would like to see you at least once again in my life and bow to you in gratitude to the face of the earth! You will soon receive the results of a project to reduce paperwork in the spiritual area. A lot of good things: what you previously spent months asking for permission to do, you will decide for yourself at home. This has been needed for a long time. For this - sincere respect with the assurance that whether we write to you, or remain silent, due to circumstances, but always and everywhere, in all circumstances, we were and are and will remain to the end with all my heart my most humble servant, By the goodness of God, we are still honored to approach the bright days of the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior 143. In an abundance of joy about this Divine event, Christians, like brothers, greet each other with all-joyful words: Christ is risen! Please accept this greeting from us, as a sign that we always remember your fatherly goodwill towards us, sincerely respect and love you, and fervently pray to the Risen Savior, may He overshadow you and your pastoral labors with His all-night Grace. After the holiday, we hope to have the opportunity to return home, where our presence is necessary for many reasons. We recently received an Assistant in the newly established Vicar of Kherson, who will live in Kherson and be called Odessa. To my special consolation, the current Abbot of the Crimean monasteries, Father Archimandrite Polycarp, a kind and worthy man, was appointed to this place. His consecration is to take place upon my return in Odessa, so that our Pomeranians will see how they are consecrated to the position of Bishop. And then, if the Lord willing, next winter, to the East - to Jerusalem. A long-standing desire must be fulfilled. Now, apparently, everything is favorable; If only God would give me strength. Devoting ourselves to your fatherly love, with a feeling of unchanging filial devotion we remain and will remain The lords of Kazan 145 and Astrakhan 146 are also thinking about leaving: the first, it seems, before the fall, and the latter completely. The following are expected to be called here: Orlovsky 147 and Olonetsky 148. But all this is just another rumor and rumors.... And in these days, all non-peaceful news about war and battles, albeit victorious ones, are rushing to you from our South: meanwhile, with all the vagueness of our military situation, we have dear news about peace, and such a great and holy peace, which will have no end, which will unite and reconcile not only Russia with Turkey, but all peoples, the whole world, visible and invisible. We have this all-comforting news from Bethlehem, from the manger of Christ, where not those on earth, but those in heaven, authorized in the hearing of all, proclaim: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace! With this all-joyful news, Holy Master, I hasten to you, so that, under the shelter of your living faith and love in the Lord, I can be comforted by the common joy that the poor sons of Adam have a Savior and Peacemaker, who, in due time, will put an end to all malice and enmity between them and will make the lion and the tiger graze and rest together with the lamb. The coming new summer will, without a doubt, require new efforts and labors from all of us to carry out our holy service; and one of my most fervent prayers to the Lord on the day of the new summer will be that the Divine Shepherd of Bethlehem will not abandon you with His gracious help and crown all your undertakings and labors with blessings from above. Bowing our heads under your fatherly blessing, we earnestly pray that we, who are weak, will not be deprived of your holy prayers for us in the new year. Despite the turbulence of times and the confusion of human affairs, the circle of the Church, like the circle of the stars, continues to steadily follow its path, and the Lord's Easter 149 is approaching, on which Orthodox Christians are accustomed to greet each other and be comforted by their common faith and love in the Risen Lord and their Savior. By virtue of this holy custom and out of my spiritual devotion to Your Eminence, I hasten to appear before Your face with an all-joyful greeting to the Holy Church: Christ is Risen! Praying with all diligence to the Giver of Life who rose from the grave, may He fill your soul and heart with that highly prized peace that He brought after His resurrection from the Father to His beloved disciples. Do not, O Holy Master, forsake us with your Holy prayers, which are always useful for us, but especially now, when the enemies of Russia have gone through our city like bees on a honeycomb, and we must resist them in the name of the Lord. This Eastern question is wonderful, in which the West, to its shame, also took an unfortunate part. Some invisible hand apparently confused him from the very beginning and brought him, contrary to human efforts and hopes, to his current bloody situation. Meanwhile, this position, in essence, is the best; for from it will only come the freedom of Eastern Christians and lasting peace, as the first is already apparently coming out, although not yet from us. From time to time our sea is covered with hostile cruisers; Probably, a whole Phalanx of enemy ships will soon appear: but no great danger is foreseen, except for the bombardment of the embankments of the streets. Our troops, thank God, are not small, and they are all extremely inspired. Great words: “For the Holy Sepulcher, for the Orthodox Faith!” everyone is ready to die, awaiting the crown of martyrdom. The crossing of the Danube went very well: the Turks fell into fear and even began to abandon their fortresses. With the arrival of the Hero of Warsaw, new movements and victories are expected. This is necessary before the Western thugs arrive. Your Eminence Bishop 150, Deign to accept your most zealous filial gratitude for your truly fatherly greeting of me with a new sign of Royal attention to my small merits 151. When you think that for this small event it was necessary for a war to break out in the East and embrace almost the entire West, that for this it was necessary for the huge Anglo-French fleet to come to bombard Odessa, and to do this precisely on Holy Saturday, then you involuntarily marvel at the cohesion of what is located on the coastal sea hill, so that this is not the case in our world of circumstances. The battle was directly opposite my house, so it was impossible to observe the entire course of the battle from beginning to end, as from my windows. Until 4 o'clock in the evening one could be calm spectators of this terribly majestic spectacle: from that time, until 7 o'clock, all the French-English hell was turned towards us: but my house, being the first under fire, was therefore less subject to danger than others; for cannonballs and bombs flew over it, launched under the canopy. However, we collected these gifts in a decent corner in the room. The cannonball alone fairly frightened all my servants sitting in the cellar. Having hit the corner of the church and scratched it, it bounced into this cellar, opened the doors and rolled down the stairs into the midst of those sitting there with a candle. You can imagine their situation! Everyone expected an explosion and death, but the cannonball lay calmly in the middle, and they soon saw that it was already harmless. But the moments of fear were terrible. I was so taken by the unusualness of this naval scene that I spent the whole day, excluding the time spent in the church during the service, did not leave the windows and looked at the actions of the Fleet. There was no fear at all: somehow God gave it. Over the past weeks, both here and in Crimea, everyone was expecting a landing; but this matter, despite the enormous preparations for this both in Varna and Constantinople, it seems, will not take place 152. The cause was cholera, which killed and exhausted about a third of the entire expected landing. Apparently the Lord will help us! After this, we can be at peace for the whole autumn, especially for the winter. The landing, however, is not very scary, and a failed landing could have put an end to the war. In July I was in the Crimea and, to my great pleasure, I found myself on the day of the founding of the Vladimir Church - in Sevastopol 153. The Spanish Revolution is also a big and useful diversion for us. Another year, and our enemies are not able to wage war. One time will wear them out. But enough politics. Let me surrender myself entirely to your fatherly love and prayers. We haven’t heard anything about Rev. Jeremiah 154. To the Most Reverend Vladyka, filial congratulations on the Great Feasts of the Lord and the New Summer of Grace. And just before these days I was again visited by a serious illness, from which I suffered grievously in St. Petersburg 155. The danger soon passed, but the weakness remained great and long. It will be possible to serve during the Holidays with great difficulty. Thank you for your smart and practical article about Vostoch. a question that has a lot of truth in it. Our Sevastopol stands and will stand, but the enemies are not asleep. It would have been possible and should have ended this long ago: but the trouble is that we, having the club of Hercules, do not have a hand that could use it... And we are not without embarrassment. The English Parliament shouts: “Why is Odessa not ruined?” But it’s easy to shout, but not very convenient to do. To do this, they now need to lose half of the fleet, and that has already been beaten by both the storm and the cannonballs. Pray for us, Holy Master! And we are yours in heart and soul. With all the fullness of my sincere filial love for you in Christ and devotion, I hasten to appear to you with worldwide joy about the resurrection of our beloved Savior 156. May the Grace of peace and new life and strength flow from His life-giving tomb into your soul for good deeds to the glory of the Holy One. His name! And we continue to be under severe pressure from our enemies. Others, at least, do not see them, but with us they are always before our eyes, possessing with impunity the entire breadth of our sea. From Vienna the rumors here are very favorable, from Crimea very fair. If it were not for contagious diseases, we could calmly wait there for the second winter, which is better at controlling our enemies than weapons. The news of the death of the Most Pious Monarch 157 flashed through us like thunder. Thank God that when one Angel departed, another (as in the Apocalypse) immediately appeared in his place. Rumors about the first actions of the new Monarch are more comforting than the other. After the Holiday, if the Lord allows, I think to visit my Crimea 158, where there is now sobbing, pity and grief. Don't leave with your prayers Your most devoted servant, Instead of an Easter egg, I am enclosing a small charter. Due to the infirmities and troubles of the holidays, I almost lost the pleasure of greeting you as usual on the feasts of the Lord and asking for your blessing and prayers for the New Year; I hasten to do this now, after joining it yesterday. Our way of life for two years now has been similar to that of a bazaar and a bivouac. Entire corps and squads with many commanders constantly come and go: everyone must be everything. Thank God that, despite all this vanity and trouble, the swagger of bodily strength, although no longer full, did not become impoverished, however, never completely. This winter is unusually severe here: frosts twice reached 20 degrees, and we rode sleighs for a whole month, which had never happened before during my stay here. Yesterday several important news were announced: Prince Gorchakov - to Warsaw, instead of Paskevnch; in its place to Crimea - G. Leaders; instead of the latter to Odessa - Sukhozanet. The Chief of Staff in the Crimea, Kotzebue, receives a corps, and the Headquarters is given to Nepokoichitsky, and other similar changes. God willing, all this would be for the best! But we have already seen so much bad here that we almost lose faith in the best. Gr. Saken is being treated with us - on vacation from Crimea. What will happen to him is not yet known. They say they will invite you to St. Petersburg. A wonderful person and a good Christian. I bow my head to my son, asking for a fatherly blessing for myself and for the long-suffering flock. Your Eminence Bishop 159, Deign to hear from us who are far away in body, but always close to you in spirit, all joyful: Christ is risen! 160 Now this holiday will be especially bright for us; for we will do it in silence and peace, without the thunder of weapons and without clouds and the smoking of destructive smoke. We most earnestly wish for Your Eminence that peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, according to the testimony of St. Paul, and that strengthening from above and ageless life, which flow only from the tomb of the Life-Giver, who entered into the tomb for this purpose, in order to shed life and immortality on all who have died. Innocent, Archbishop of Kherson. With the approach of a new summer of Grace, throwing myself mentally at your feet, I humbly ask both my flock and myself your fatherly blessing and holy prayers, so that everyone may continue their service in the house of God, to the glory of the Lord. And to you, Holy Master, we prayerfully wish you, on behalf of the Savior of the world, who rests in the manger, in the new year, new strengthening of strength, new consolation and joy in the Holy Spirit. Based on your silence, I conclude that there is hardly anything unfavorable with your health. All the more, I hasten to greet you with the joy of the Resurrection of the Lord, 161 which contains so much spiritual strength and life that it can strengthen the weak, inspiring them with the hope of eternal life. I, too, was not well all last fall and winter, so there were weeks in which we had no hope of living 162. But the mercy of the Lord spared us. Now, with spring, which began for us even before March, considerable revival is felt. Bless me and the Kherson flock! Innocent, Arch. Khersonsky 163. “Stephen Romanovsky, Bishop of Vologda and Ustyug (autobiography) 164, born 1777, July 21, Podolsk Province in the town of Chechelnik, under Polish possession; before becoming a monk he was called Simeon; son of the Orthodox Archpriest, Luke Romanovsky, from the Nobles. He studied Slavic and Civil reading and writing and the beginnings of the Latin language in his home. In 1791 he was sent to the Kyiv Academy, where, after passing the exam, he entered the Syntactic class. In 1799, upon completion of the Theological course, returning to his parents’ home, he was assigned to the newly established Podolsk Seminary as a Teacher of the Grammar class and the German language. In 1801, on November 21, he entered (was tonsured) into monasticism at the first-class Nikolaev Shargorod Monastery, and was during that year and 1802 the Teacher of the Syntactic Class and the Greek Language; from September 1, 1803, Teacher of Rhetoric and Greek, with the title of Prefect of the Seminary and Builder of the provincial Korzhovetsky Monastery. In 1808 transferred, with the Philosophical class, from the town of Shargorod to the provincial city, Kamenets Podolsky, where, under the Philosophical class and with the title of Prefect, he was entrusted by the Most Reverend Ioannikiy, Archbishop of Podolsk and Bratslav, to teach the Theological class, without leaving both the Greek language, and, due to the illness of the Rector of the Seminary, the first-class Kamenets Trinity Monastery Archimandrite Innocent, from September 28, retained the position of Rector, management of this monastery and censorship of sermons of all Podolsk Diocese of Orthodox preachers. In 1809, on the 25th day of March, he was consecrated at the Trinity Monastery as Archimandrite of this monastery and appointed by the Holy Synod as Rector of the Podolsk Seminary. In this rank he taught the Philosophical and Theological classes at special hours and the Greek language until 1811, and from September 1 of this year he remained in the Theological class only and the Greek language until 1813, September 14, 1813, consecrated, in the Kiev St. Sophia Cathedral. His Eminence Serapion, Metropolitan of Kyiv and Galicia, Bishop of Volyn-Zhitomir 165. 1828, November 24 days, transferred to Vologda. 1829, April 4th, assigned to the Order of St. Anne, 1st class; 1838, April 2nd, to the same order, adorned with the Imperial crown, and on March 1st, 1841, he was most mercifully granted the rank of Archbishop, with an appointment to the department of the Astrakhan Diocese, where he died in December of the same year. Of the Diocesan affairs in Vologda, the Most Reverend Stephen deserves mention: his establishment in 1831 of the Diocesan Candle Shop at the Bishop’s House (which still exists), and the renewal, in 1832–1833, of the warm cathedral of the Resurrection Cathedral.” This information was communicated to me through the Professor of the Moscow Theological Seminary, A. S. Lebedev, Professor of the Vologda Seminary, A. I. Malevinsky. ABOUT. In the world, Ivan Borisov, according to the “Service List” (in the book: “Wreath on the grave of His Eminence Innocent, Archbishop of Tauride, ed. by M. Pogodin. M. 1867, p. 1), was born in the Oryol Province in the city of Yelets, from a Priest; “Review of Russian Spiritual Literature, Philaret, Archbishop of Chernigov” (Chernigov, 1863, book 2, p. 282), speaks only of his birth in this city in 1800; and the “Biographical Note on the Most Reverend Innocent, Archbishop of Kherson and Tauride,” compiled by the Most Reverend Macarius, Bishop of Tambov (now Archbishop of Lithuania and Vilna), placed in the same “Wreath” (pp. 20–40), calls (p. 21) his “son of the Priest of the city of Sevsk, Oryol Province, Alexy Borisova. He received his first education in his parents' house, then at the Voronezh Theological District School, and then at the Oryol (then in Sevsk) Seminary, where he completed his studies in 1819 and was sent, among other comrades, to the transformed Kyiv Theological Academy, in which, in 1823, at the age of 23 from birth, he received a Master's degree (according to the 1st list); On August 28, he was appointed Professor of Church History and Greek Language and Inspector of the St. Petersburg Theological Seminary; November 15, Rector of Alexander Nevsky Schools; On December 10 he became a monk and was ordained as Hierodiacon, 29 as Hieromonk; On October 16, 1824, he was numbered among the cathedral Hieromonks of the Nevsky Lavra, and on December 16 he was appointed Bachelor of Theological Sciences at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy; September 2 Inspector her; January 6, 1826, Extra-Ordinary Professor; March 16 Archimandrite; May 9, 1827 Member of the Censorship Committee at the Academy; September 3, 1829, Doctor of Orthodox Theology; August 27, 1830, Rector of the Kyiv Academy and Professor of Theology; October 24, Abbot of the Bratsky Monastery; January 27, 1836, Archimandrite of a first-class monastery, with primacy before all Archimandrites in the Department of the Kyiv Educational District; On October 3, he was Bishop of Chigirin (ordained on November 21 in St. Petersburg, in the Kazan Cathedral), and Vicar of the Kyiv Diocese, remaining in the Rectorship and staying in the St. Michael’s Monastery; March 1, 1841, Bishop of Vologda; December 31 transferred to the Kharkov Diocese; October 19, 1811, Ordinary Academician of the Academy of Sciences in its 2nd Division; April 15, 1845, Archbishop; April 1, 1847 called for presence in St. Synod; February 24, 1848, Archbishop of Kherson; 1849 released to his Diocese to improve his health; in May 1852 he was again called to attend the Holy Synod, but due to illness he arrived only in September; in the spring of 1853 he left for Odessa; August 26, 1856, Member of the Holy Synod; had Anna and Alexander Nevsky 1st degree, Vladimir 2nd, a silver medal on the St. George ribbon in memory of the bombing of Sevastopol, a bronze pectoral cross on the Vladimir ribbon in memory of the war of 1853–1856 and a diamond cross on the hood. Died May 26, 1857, in Odessa, on the day of Pentecost. O.B. At that time Bishop of Kaluga (from 1828 to 1831). O.B. The then famous St. Petersburg bookseller. O.B. As its publisher and Member of the Censorship Committee at the Academy since May 1827. O.B. The Reverend Gabriel underlined these words in red pencil and wrote next to them: “1828.” O.B. Metropolitan of Moscow, since March 15, 1819, Member of the Holy Synod. ABOUT.. Pavsky (1st graduate of the 1st Master of the St. Petersburg Academy, Doctor of Theology 1821, Professor of Jewish Language at the Academy (until 1835) and Theology at the University (until 1827), Archpriest and Teacher of the Law of the Tsarevich (1826–1835), who, with V. B. Bazhanov (Master of the 5th graduating class of the St. Petersburg Academy (according to the 7th list), Bachelor of German until 1829, from 1827 Teacher of the Law of St. Petersburg University, Doctor of Theology 1837, Instructor in the Law of God of the Tsarevich from 1836, Protopresbyter, Chief Priest of the General Staff, Guards and Grenadier Corps, Member of the Holy Synod and their Spiritual Imperial Majesties), at the invitation of Innocent, as Inspector of the Academy and Extra-Ordinary Professor of Theology, took an active part in the publication of the journal founded in 1821 by the then Rector, Grigory (in the world Georgy) Postnikov (1st graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy Master, 3rd on the list), after Novgorod and St. Petersburg Metropolitan, the magazine fell in 1826, with the transfer of its founder to the Episcopal See in Kaluga. John (in the world of Mikhail) Dobrozrakov (2nd graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy Master, according to the 11th list), Doctor of Theology 1823; Professor of Chernigov Seminary; from 1819 the Church Eloquence of the St. Petersburg Academy; 1821 Bachelor of Theology; 1822 Extra-Ordinary, 1826 Ordinary; 1821 Her inspector, in the rank of Hieromonk from 1819, then from 1821 Archimandrite; from 1824 Rector of the St. Petersburg Seminary, from 1826–1830 to Augustus Academy, when he entered the Bishop of Penza; from 1833 Bishop of Nizhny Novgorod; 1817 Archbishop of Donskoy, and since 1867 retired, in the Kremen monastery of Donskoy, Diocese. O.B. In 1811 he completed his studies at the Moscow Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy; 1819 monk and Archimandrite; 1816–1829 Rector of the Tobolsk and Kostroma Seminaries; 1829 Bishop of Tambov; 1832 Minsky; 1834 · Archbishop of Kartali and Exarch of Georgia; 1844 Astrakhan; 1856 Pskovsky. O.B. P.V. Court Confessor. O. B. (Pavel Vasilievich Krinitsky). Educated at the Chernigov Seminary and Nevsky Academy from 1797; upon completion of studies 1802 Inspector of the Tikhvin Theological School; 1805 Archimandrite and Superior of the Chinese mission in Beijing, but remained in Irkutsk and was made Rector of the Seminary; 1821 Abbot of the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery; 1837 Novospassky; died in Rostov, where he was transferred in 1857. O. B. Archimandrite Apollos (in the world Alexey Maksimovich Alekseevsky). Originally published in Christian Reading, then ed. 2 in Moscow, at the University Printing House in 1828, at 8 d. O.B. That is, “The Last Days of the Earthly Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ,” which first appeared in “Christian Reading” in 1828 and finished in 1830. Both this and “The Life of St. Apostle Paul” attracted everyone’s attention at that time, and the magazine was selling out like hot cakes. This was the best time of this Journal. Some, however, inaccuracies in the explanation of the words of the Gospel in the last work caused an order not to reprint the “Christian Reading” for 1828–1830. Only after the death of the author, “The Last Days,” revised by him, was published in Odessa in 1838. See “Review of Spiritual Literature” by Philaret, Archbishop of Chernigov. Chernigov, 1843, book. 2, p. 282. O. B. Pallady Gorodkov, Hierodeacon, after the Candidate of the St. Petersburg Academy of the 7th graduation in 1827, who at that time was thinking about a higher academic degree. He died as an Archimandrite under his brother in 1842. O. B. Eugene, in the light of Euthymius (in the “Review of Spiritual Literature” by Philaret, Archbishop of Chernigov, II, p. 225, Epiphanius, but for what?) Bolkhovitinov, b. 1767, December 18, in Voronezh, from the Priest of the Entrance of the Jerusalem Church Alexy, studied first at the Voronezh Seminary until half of the Philosophical course, and then was sent to the Moscow Academy and the University; from January 1789 Teacher of Rhetoric and Franz. language of the Voronezh Seminary; from July 1790 Philosophy; from September Prefect of the Seminary, Teacher of Theology, from August 1797 Church History, Hermeneutics, Hebrew, New Greek. and Franz. languages; 1796 Archpriest of the city of Pavlovsk, leaving at the Seminary; after his widowhood in 1799, he was summoned by Metropolitan Ambrose of Novgorod to St. Petersburg, and from March 1800, a monk, Prefect of the Academy, Teacher of Philosophy and Eloquence, Archimandrite and Abbot of the Zelenetsky Monastery, at the same time (1800) from April, Teacher of Theology; from January 1804 Bishop of Old Russia and Vicar of Novgorod; from January 1808 Vologda: from July 1813 Kaluga, from February 1816 Archbishop of Pskov; in Genvar 1822 Metropolitan of Kyiv and Member of St. Synod; from February 1825 and the Commission of Theological Schools; died on February 23, 1837, and was buried in St. Sophia Cathedral. O.B. What are we talking about? It would be nice if someone could explain this. O.B. Without a doubt, this one: “Exercise experiences of students of the Kyiv Theological Academy of the 5th academic year.” Part 2. Kyiv. In the printing house of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. 1832, at 8 d. In the Mogilev Diocese since 1831 O. B. Count V.V. Levashov? O.B. In the light of Joachim Velichkovsky, from the widowed Deacons Hieromonk, Teacher of the lower classes of the St. Petersburg Academy until 1800; in 1801, teacher of the law at the Commercial School; after the Rector of the Kursk and Vladimir Seminaries; from 1819 Bishop of Arkhangelsk, 1821 Smolensk; from 1835 he retired to the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, where he died. ABOUT. Probably Lavrenty, in the world Luka Bakshevsky (according to Philaret of Chernigov, in his “Review of Russian Spiritual Literature”, II, p. 231, Bolyshevsky), son of a Priest of the Vladimir Province, studied at Trinity Seminary, from 1799 Teacher and Prefect at Pererva; from 1800 monk; 1819 from the Archimandrites of the Vysokopetrovsky Monastery Bishop of Dmitrov; at the end of 1820 Chernigov; from 1826 Archbishop, and in 1831 he was retired to the Pereyaslavl Danilov Monastery, where he died in December 1837; on the way there, perhaps, he visited Kyiv. ABOUT. Ivan Mikhailovich Skvortsov, under the title: “Words on some holidays and solemn days, spoken at different times by the Kyiv Theological Academy by the Professor of Philosophy, the Kiev-Pechersk Vladimir Church by the Archpriest.” Kyiv, in the printing house of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, 1833, in 12 d., p. 214, words 19. Born in 1795 in Arzamas, studied at the Nizhny Novgorod Seminary, and then at the St. Petersburg Academy, Master of the 2nd graduation (according to the 1st list); in 1817 Professor of Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics at the Kyiv Seminary, and from September 1819 Bachelor; from March 1824 Ordinary Professor of Philosophy at the Kyiv Theological Academy, after and at the University of St. Vladimir Professor of Theology, Logic, also Psychology, Church History and Law of the Greek-Russian Church; Archpriest of the St. Sophia Cathedral, with miter. In 1831 he was elevated to the degree of Doctor of Theological Sciences; died 1863 O.B. Of course, here the Konisky manuscript refers to some of his own handwritten manuscripts, such as: Words and Conversations (55 in number, from 1782 to 1791), as well as textbooks on Rhetoric and Theology, located in the Kyiv Academy, the place of his upbringing and educational and scientific activities. In 1835, the “Collected Works of George Konisky, Archbishop of Belarus, with a portrait and biography of him” actually appeared, in St. Petersburg, in 2 parts, in 8, of which the 1st contains 23 words and 3 speeches, and the 2nd contains 9 words and 1 speech, 3 district letters to the Clergy, Thoughts, Historical news about the Belarusian Diocese, letters and various poems. Archpriest I.I. Grigorovich was a relative of Konisky (on his mother’s side, the daughter of Konisky’s brother, Archpriest of the town of Sorochinets, Poltava Province, and his grandfather was from the Nizhyn Nobles, who studied at the Kyiv Academy and was called by the Eminence to the Mogilev Seminary as a Teacher of Rhetoric, then a Priest in Rogachev and Propoisk, and then in Gomel); born in Propoisk 1790, September 1; studied at the Mogilev Seminary from 1802; upon completion of his studies, he joined the Teachers of the local Theological District School, and in 1815 he went to the St. Petersburg Theological Academy at the support of the State Chancellor, Count N.P. Rumyantsev, graduated in 1819 as a Candidate (3rd graduation, and 7th on the list); then the Priest and Archpriest 1820 in Gomel, from where 1829 in Vitebsk, and 1831, with the assistance of Protopresbyter Muzovsky, to St. Petersburg of the Life Guards Izmailovsky Regiment; died Archpriest of the Anichkov Palace Church (since 1838) and Chief Editor of the Archaeographic Commission, November 1, 1852, from cholera. That neither he nor others (Ustryalov, Pushkin and Gogol) succeeded in publishing “The History of the Russes or Little Russia”, op. Konisky, this was done by the Imperial Society of Russian History and Antiquities at Moscow University, which placed it, without the slightest omission of anything, in books 1–4 of its “Readings” of 1846, according to verified lists prepared by me; especially also. O.B. As Archbishop since 1834 O.B. What scroll is this? Probably one of his compositions at that time. But which one exactly? O.B. Both came out in Kyiv, at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, 1835, at 8, and several times after. O.B. Vetrinsky, Master (on list 6) of the St. Petersburg Academy, 1st graduation; from August 1814 he received a Bachelor of Philosophy in it; from September 1818 Ordinary Professor; 1826 Censor; from May 1834 Director of the Mogilev Gymnasium. O.B. We are talking about the call of Innocent, on October 3, 1836, to St. Petersburg, for consecration to the rank of Bishop of Chigirinsky, Vicar of Kyiv, with the management of the Golden-Verkho-Mikhailovsky Monastery and remaining in the position of Rector of the Academy. O.B. Reunion of several Uniates. ABOUT. Student of the St. Petersburg Academy, 7th graduating class, tonsured a monk in 1821, graduated in 1827; 1829 Teacher of the law in the 2nd Cadet Corps; in September 1829 Archimandrite and Bachelor of Theological Sciences; 1830 Inspector and Extra-Ordinary Professor of Philosophy at the Kyiv Academy; from October 1839 its rector; 1841 Bishop of Chigirinsky and Vicar; 1843 Caucasian; 1849 Poltavsky; 1850 Nizhny Novgorod; since 1857 he has been at rest in the Nizhny Novgorod Pechersk Monastery. O.B. “Sunday Reading”, a magazine published at the Kyiv Theological Academy since April 18, 1837, 52 issues per year, 4 issues. This magazine was founded according to the plan of Innocent, who, by publishing his sermons and other articles in it, thereby placed it highly while he was at the Academy. O.V. Vicar of the Kyiv Diocese. O.B. Easter of Christ was in 1839. March 26 days. O.B. Or 2nd edition. "Bright Week", St. Petersburg. 1838, in 8th edition “Passionate” 3rd ed. in St. Petersburg, in 8th edition: either “Collection of words, conversations and speeches for different days and occasions”, 2 volumes, Kyiv, in the Pecherskaya printing house, in 8th edition, 1836–1837; or, “Collection of words for solemn days”, in the same place, 1837, in 8th edition. ABOUT. An allusion to the secret society between Students, opened at the end of 1838 and leading to the closure of the University in 1839. O.B. At this time, Gabriel was already Archbishop of Ryazan, transferred from Mogilev in 1837 by O.B. "Sunday Reading" O.B. Commission of Theological Schools. First, the Temporary Committee appeared in 1807, to improve the condition of the ministers of the Church and improve the Theological Schools, which decided to open 4 Academies: in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kyiv and Kazan, for which the Seminary Charter was written by a Member of this Committee, M. M. Speransky, and for the Parish and District Schools by Kaluga Bishop Theophylact Rusanov. In 1808, after the destruction of the Committee, a permanent Commission of Theological Schools was established. Its members were initially: Metropolitan Ambrose (in the world Andrey) Podobedov (from 1801 to 1818), M. M. Speransky, Prince A. N. Golitsyn (Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod, Court Confessor, P. V. Krinitsky, and Chief Priest of the Military Clergy, I. S. Derzhavin. O. B. Filaret (in the world Fedor) Amfitheatrov, a graduate of the Oryol (in Sevsk) Seminary, after the Rector of the Tobolsk Seminary, Moscow Academy, from 1814 he held the position of Inspector of St. Petersburg, at the end of the academic course he was named Doctor of Orthodox Theology; in August 1814, during the transformation of the Moscow Academy, he entered it as Inspector and Professor of Theological Sciences; 1S19 Bishop of Kaluga; 1825 Archbishop of Ryazan; 1828 Kazansky; 1836 Yaroslavl, and from 1837 Metropolitan of Kyiv; died at the end of 1857 O.B. Filaret (in the light of Vasily) Drozdov, son of the Deacon of the Cathedral of the Epiphany in the city of Kolomna, after the Priest and Archpriest; born December 26, 1782, studied in Kolomenskaya, and from 1803 in the Sergius Lavra Seminary, from November Teacher of Greek and Hebrew, 1806 Pitiki, 1808 Rhetoric, November 16 monk, then Hierodeacon; in March 1809, Inspector of the St. Petersburg Seminary and Teacher of Philosophy, with the title of Academic Bachelor; in Martha Hieromonk; 1810 Bachelor of Theology at the Academy; in July 1811 Archimandrite; March 11th, 1812, Rector of the Academy and Professor of Theological Sciences; August 5, 1817 Bishop of Revel and Vicar of St. Petersburg; 1819 March 15, Archbishop of Tver; 1820, September 26, Yaroslavl; 1821, July 3, Moscow; 1826, August 22, Metropolitan; died on November 19, 1867 and was buried in the Trinity Lavra. O.B. On the way from Vologda to Kharkov. O.B.. We are talking about the summoning of Gabriel from Ryazan to St. Petersburg to attend the Holy Synod, 1841. O. B. From Rectorship and Professorship at the Kyiv Academy to Vologda. O.B. Filaret Amphitheaters. ABOUT.. In place of Kirill (in Balti Konstantin) Platonov, Master of the St. Petersburg Academy of the 1st graduation (on the list of the 8th), in which for 3 years (from August 1814) Bachelor of General Church History; from 1817 Rector of the Poltava (in Pereyaslavl) Seminary; 1819 Rector of the Moscow Academy; from October 1824 Bishop of Dmitrov and Vicar of Moscow; from March 1827 Vyatsky; 1832 Archbishop of Kamenets-Podolsk; died while in St. Petersburg to attend the Holy Synod, 1841, and was buried in the Lavra. O.B. In the world, Ivan Vasilievsky, the son of the Deacon of the Vasilievskaya Church in Kaluga, studied at Trinity Seminary, then a priest in Kaluga, upon the opening of the Diocese of Archpriests; from 1807 monk and teacher of the law at the Commercial School; then Archimandrite and Rector of the Kaluga Seminary; from 1810 on the staff in St. Petersburg; since January Inspector of the Academy; 1812 Bishop of Tambov, then Archbishop of Astrakhan and Exarch of Georgia; from 1828 Metropolitan and Member of the Holy Synod, living in St. Petersburg; died in June 1849. O.B. Count Protasov, Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod. O.B. Transfer of relics (1485) May 20th. ABOUT. Bishop of Vologda and Ustyug. O.B. Isn’t it Viktor Vensky, Candidate of the 1st graduating class of the St. Petersburg Academy (20th on the list)? O.B. Now a Senator in St. Petersburg. O.B. Stephen, transferred by the Supreme Decree of March 1841, to Astrakhan by the Archbishop. O.B. Since August 1830. O.B. Male 3rd class in Solvychegodsk, founded in 1563 and managed by the Abbot. It was richly decorated with the Stroganovs, and its sacristy was especially enriched with these latter. O.B. This refers to the leaving of the University Act by Metropolitan Philaret (since 1837, after the death of Eugene) with the Clergy present at it, on the occasion of the Speech delivered by Professor N.D. Ivanishev on concubinage. O.B. No doubt on the occasion of the movement of Latvians and Estonians? ABOUT. Under letters 13–17 the year 1841 is displayed, of which under 3 (14, 15 and 16) Vologda, and under 12 December 23, 1840; Moreover, in the 13th it is said directly: “I arrived in Vologda at the end of last month,” i.e., May, since this was written on June 16, 1841, no doubt, from Moscow; Meanwhile, in the “Service List” of Innocent, placed in the “Wreath on his grave” Moscow, 1867), it is said (p. 5) that he was “commanded by the Supreme Decree given to the Holy Synod to be the Bishop of the Vologda Diocese of 1840, March 1”, and by another Decree “of December 31st, the same 1840, he was transferred to the Kharkov Diocese.” The same was noted in the “Biographical Note on Innocent, His Eminence Macarius” (ibid. p. 32): “On March 1, 1840, he was appointed Bishop of the Vologda Diocese: the new Archpastor was not destined to remain here for long - only nine months... On December 31 of the same year he was moved to the Kharkov Diocese.” In the “Review of Russian Spiritual Literature”, Philaret, Archbishop of Chernigov (p. 282) we read: “since 1840 Bishop of Vologda, since 1843 Kharkov.” What is the truth here? Judging by these handwritten letters of his, the truth is that Innocent was appointed Bishop of Vologda exactly on March 1st, but only in 1841, and not in 1840. This is confirmed by a certificate from the “Moscow Gazette”, 1841, Saturday, April 19, No. 42, where it is printed: “The Supreme Decree on the 1st day of March commanded: Bishop Stefan of Vologda to be Archbishop of Astrakhan, and Vicar of the Kyiv Diocese, Bishop of Chigirinsky, Innocent, to be Bishop of Vologda." And in the same “Moscow Gazette of 1842, No. 15, we read: “December 31st (last 1841): Archbishop of Kharkov, Smaragd, to be Archbishop of Astrakhan, and Bishop of Vologda, Innocent, to be Bishop of Kharkov and Akhtyrsky, Vicar of Voronezh Diocese, Irinarch, to be Bishop of Vologda.” ABOUT. Irinarch, in the world of Yakov Popov, Senior Candidate of the St. Petersburg Academy of the 2nd graduation (on the list of the 5th) with the right to a Master's degree for the correct completion of academic positions; he became a monk at the same time (1817); 1831 Archimandrite; 1836 Bishop of Staritsky, Vicar of Tver; soon after that the Vicar of Riga; 1841 Ostrogozhsky; 1842 Bishop of Vologda; 1844 Kishenevsky; 1843 Archbishop; 1858 Podolsky; 1864 Ryazan; now retired since August 29, 1867, in the Ryazan Spassky Monastery. O.B. See note above. 1st. O. B. (63) As Vicar of Ostrogozhsky from 1841 O.B. Evgeny, in the light of Andrey Kazantsev, was born on June 30, 1778, in the village of Belinitsyn, from Priest Euthymius; studied at Trinity Seminary from 1791; 1800 Teacher of Syntax there, then in Bethany; 1802 Rhetoric; 1804 tonsured a monk and made Prefect and Teacher of Philosophy, then Hierodeacon, 1806 Hieromonk; in 1809 he was summoned to St. Petersburg as Inspector of the newly opened Theological Academy and Bachelor of Philosophy; in 1810 he was returned, at the request of Metropolitan Platon, to the Moscow Diocese as Rector of Trinity Seminary and Teacher of Theology; in June Hegumen, in August Archimandrite; in 1814 he was transferred with the same title to the Moscow Seminary; 1817, upon dismissal, made Abbot of the Donskoy Monastery, Chairman of the Spiritual Censorship and Member of the Moscow Synodal Office; in June 1818 Bishop of Kursk and Belogorod; in February 1822, Archbishop of Pskov; in September 1825, Tobolsk; in August 1831, Ryazan; in May 1837, Yaroslavl, and in December 1853 at rest in the Moscow Donskoy Monastery, with its management, etc. O. B. See about this: “His Diary”, published in “Soulful Reading” of 1868–1869, and especially. ABOUT. Vladimir, in Balti Vasily Alyavdin, born. 1791 in June from Priest Vladimir of the Assumption Convent, was brought up in the Seminary there, from which in 1813 he entered Trinity, in September 1815, into the Moscow Academy, graduated from it as a Master and was appointed Professor at the Vladimir Seminary; in Genvar 1827, monk and soon Hieromonk; then the Inspector of the Vladimir, Penza, St. Petersburg Seminaries, and the Rector of Kaluga; in Genvar 1835 Bishop of Chigirinsky, Vicar of Kyiv; from September 1846, Kostroma; from November 1843, Archbishop of Tobolsk, where he died on May 20, 1845. O.B. Parfeniy, Teacher of Eloquence at the Moscow Academy on Nikolskaya, since 1811 its Prefect; 1814 Rector of Bethany Seminary; 1817 Moscow; 1821 Bishop of Vladimir; 1850 Archbishop of Voronezh, where he died in 1853 O. B. Evlampius, who graduated from the Moscow Academy in 1820; from 1822 monk; 1825 Archimandrite; 1833 Bishop of Yekaterinburg; 1840 Orlovsky, 1844 Vologda; 1854 Archbishop of Tobolsk; since 1856 he has been at rest in the Sviyazhsk Mother of God Monastery. ABOUT. Here at that time there was Vladyka Iliodor Chistyakov, who graduated from the Moscow Academy in 1820 and was then a monk, 1825 Archimandrite; from 1823 to 1832 Rector of the Kyiv and Chernigov Seminaries; 1832 Bishop of Kursk; 1844 Archbishop; from 1860 at rest in the Kursk Belogorodsky Monastery; died the same year. O.B. Smaragd, in the light of Alexander Kryzhanovsky, 3rd graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy Master (4th on the list); from August 1819 Bachelor of Theology in it; from June 1821 Inspector of the Kyiv Academy; 1824 Extra-Ordinary Professor of Theology and Archimandrite; 1826–1828 Rector of the Kyiv and Bethany Seminaries; from August 1828, Ordinary Professor and Rector of the Academies, from 1830 Kyiv, then St. Petersburg; 1831 Vicar of Revel; 1833 Bishop of Polotsk; 1836 Archbishop; 1837 Mogilevsky; from April 1840 Kharkov; from 1842 Astrakhan; 1844 Orlovsky; 1838 Ryazan, where he died in 1863 O. B. Filaret Amphitheaters. O.B. And it was founded later under the name of Melitopol. O.B. That is, “The history of the last days of our Lord Jesus Christ.” ABOUT. Akim Semenovich Kochetov, from the Tambov Seminary, listened to science at the St. Petersburg Academy and graduated as a Master (according to the 9th list) of the 1st graduation; 1817–1818 Bachelor of General Ecclesiastical History and Full Professor in 1851; Archpriest of the Cathedral of Peter and Paul Cathedral; Professor of Theological and Philosophical Sciences at the Alexander Lyceum; Ordinary Academician of the Academy of Sciences in its 2nd Division; died in March 1854. O.B. A hint of departure from the presence of the Metropolitans of Moscow and Kyiv in the Holy Synod. O.B. John Obolensky, Master of the Kyiv Academy; from June 1812, according to the definition of the Holy Synod, he was transferred from the Kharkov Seminary to Kazan, but in May 1844, due to poor health, he was dismissed from the Spiritual School Service by the Rector of the Ryazan Trinity Monastery, where he died in August 1851. ABOUT. Filofeya, b. 1807, from Diyakon in the village of Zakobyakina, Yaroslavl Province; upon completion of his studies at the Moscow Academy, Master, 1832, monk; from 1838 Bachelor; then the Inspector of the St. Petersburg Academy; 1839 Archimandrite; 1842 Ordinary Professor of Theology and Rector of Seminaries: Kharkov, then Bethany and Moscow; 1849 Bishop of Dmitrov and Vicar of Moscow; from August 1853 Kostroma; from February 1857 Tver and Archbishop. O.B. Metropolitans of Kyiv and Moscow. O.B. Andrei Raikovsky, Master of the St. Petersburg Academy of the 4th graduation (not listed as 2nd), Professor of General Civil History there since August 1821, Archpriest of the Kazan Cathedral and Member of the Spiritual Censorship Committee at the Academy 1841–1845 O. B. Metropolitan Filaret (Drozdov). O.B. Metropolitan Filaret Amfitheatrov. O.B. “The first week of Great Lent for those preparing for confession and communion of the Holy Mysteries.” 2nd ed. Moscow. In Stepanov's printing house, 1842, 12 days, 3rd ed. Kharkov. In the University Printing House, 1843, at 12 d. "Holy Week" Kyiv. In the Academic Printing House at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, 1835, at 8; 2nd ed. St. Petersburg In type Medical Dept. 1836; 3rd there in type. Praca, 1837; 4th Moscow. In type Stepanova 1841; 5th Kyiv. In type Kiev-Pechersk Lavra 1842, and 6th Kharkov. In the University Printing House, in 12 days, and the previous ones are all in 8 days. O.B. “Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian. Conversations on the Holy Pentecost". Kharkov. At Univers. printing house, 1844, 12 d. O.B. We are talking about the appointment of Archbishop Anthony of Warsaw as successor to St. Petersburg Metropolitan Seraphim (Stephan Glagolevsky), who died in 1843. O.B. Jeremiah. See letter 10, note. 1. O.B. “Words to the Vologda flock.” Kyiv. In the Kiev-Pechersk printing house, 1843, in 8 pp. O.B. On the occasion of his presence in the Holy Synod since 1841. O.B. Titled: “Works of Innocent, Bishop of Kharkov and Akhtyrsky.” 3 volumes. Moscow, in the printing houses of I. Stepanov and Universitetskaya, at 8. O.B. Rev. Gabriel noted on this letter in his own hand: “Received. 19 Gen. 1845. It was written to St. Petersburg.” ABOUT. Probably one of these: “God is with us! Conversations at Christmas. Kharkov. At the Univ. typographical, 1844, in 12 d., and the other either: “Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian. Conversations on the Holy Pentecost". Kharkov. At the Univ. type. 1844 in 12 d., or: “About sin and its consequences. Conversations on the Holy Pentecost". Kharkov. At the Univ. typogr. 1844, at 12 d. A well-known Anglican clergyman who came to Russia around this time with the goal of becoming more familiar with our Church and wishing to join it, for which purpose he wrote his Confession of Faith. O.B. Archbishop since April 15, 1845, for excellent management of the Diocese, personally elevated to this rank by Decree of the Holy Synod. O.B. Dogmatic Collection. O.B. Moscow Metropolitan Philaret speaks about him in a letter to Gabriel dated December 31, 1835. See “Letters of Moscow Metropolitan Philaret to Gabriel, Archbishop of Ryazan, in Readings at the Imperial Society of Russian History and Antiquities at Moscow University, 1868, Vol. 2, dept. V, p. 152, and especially, letter 32, p. 39. O. B. Alexander Skarlatovich, b. in Iasi on November 18, 1791, before his parents moved to Russia, where, having been raised, he served, from 1809, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in April 1812 on the Danube, then in Lithuania, then in St. Petersburg, Vienna and Paris with Count Kapodistrias in Genvar 1816; from half of 1819 to half of 1821 he lived in the village, in September in St. Petersburg, and in the spring of 1822 he moved to Odessa; in 1823 on foreign Waters, in the summer of 1825 in Emsa, in the winter and spring of 1826 in Paris, again in Odessa and St. Petersburg, in April 1828 in Bukurest by the Ruler of the Chancellery of the Min. Foreign Del; at the end of April 1830, he retired as a Privy Councilor and settled in Odessa; in the spring of 1836 he went to Berlin and generally to Germany for health, from where in the summer of 1837 he returned to Odessa; in 1843 in Moldavia, 1845 in Italy, where he translated into French and published in Montpellier “The First Week of Great Lent,” op. Innocent, also in Greek (Athens, 1846), but in the summer of 1847 he returned to Russia, and lived preferably in Odessa; in 1847 he translated and published selected words and speeches of Moscow Metropolitan Philaret. For his previous and subsequent works in the field of writing, see “Brief information about A.S. Sturdze”, placed with his “Memoirs of the life and deeds of Count I. A. Kapodistrias, Ruler of Greece”, in “Readings in the Imperator. Society of Russian History and Antiquities" 1864, book. 2, dept. II, pp. 193–205, and esp. He died on June 13, 1854, in the Bessarabian village of his daughter, Manzyra. O.B. The first Rector of the Kazan Academy from June 1842 to May 1844, upon his dismissal he was in charge of the Ryazan Trinity Monastery, where he died in August 1851. See letter 21 above, approx. 4. O.B. See above, previous letter. O.B. Anthony, from the Archbishops of Warsaw, Metropolitan of Novgorod and St. Petersburg 1843 O. B. Vladimir, in the light of Vasily Ushinsky, who was brought up at the Alexander Nevsky Academy; Teacher, Inspector and Rector of the Novgorod Seminary, then Bishop of Ryazan and Vicar of St. Petersburg, from 1822 Kursk and finally Archbishop of Kazan; died in retirement 1855 O. B. Ecl. 1, 4. O. B. (Eccl. 1:4) To St. Petersburg, where he was summoned on April 1, 1847, to attend the Holy Synod. O.B. From the end of August 1823 to the end of August 1830. ABOUT. On the occasion of the well-known movement of Latvians and Chuds into Orthodoxy and resistance to it from the local Germans. O.B. During his (Gabriel’s) presence in the Holy Synod. O.B. That is, to St. Petersburg, since Innocent, Archbishop of Kharkov, was summoned to it to be present at the Holy Synod, April 1st, 1847; where he writes this letter from. O.B. Since February 24, 1848. O.B. See previous letter. O.B. Nikanor, in the world Nikolai Klementyevsky, a student of the Trinity Seminary, from 1809 Teacher of the Greek and Hebrew languages, 1812 Rhetoric, 1814 Bachelor of the Moscow Academy and Viceroy of the Lavra, 1818 Rector of the Bethany Seminary; 1826 Bishop of Revel and Vicar of Novgorod; 1831 Kaluga; 1834 Archbishop of Minsk; 1840 Volynsky; 1843 Warsaw; 1848 Novgorod and St. Petersburg; died in September 1856. O. B. Is this not a speech for the funeral of Metropolitan Anthony? O.B. See letter 34 above, which talks about her translation by Sturdza. O.B. See note above. 4th to letter 21st. ABOUT. This year, Vladyka Innocent was allowed to return to his Kherson Diocese, and he was recognized, as stated above, to attend the Holy Synod, by the Highest command, 1847, April 1st. O.V. The states regarding the clergy have also embarrassed Moscow Metropolitan Philaret a lot since 1845. See his letters to Gabriel in “Readings in the Imper. Society of Russian History and Antiquities at Moscow University" 1868, book. 2, Dept. V, letters 57, 60, 61, 63, and especially, as well as in “Soulful Reading” 1868, December, Dep. I, pp. 363-364, letter of the same and moreover dated 1st Gen., 1850. O. B. That’s when, it must be, Innocent returned to his Diocese, and not in 1849. ABOUT. In the light of Yegor Postnikov, son of Deacon Peter, Moscow Gubernia, Nikitsky Uyezd, village of Mikhailovskoye, b. On November 1, 1784, he studied at the Perervin Seminary until Philosophy, then at Trinity; 1808 sent to the St. Petersburg Academy, from which in the 1st graduation he graduated as Master (according to the 3rd list) 1814, monk, from August Bachelor of Theological Sciences, 1816 Inspector, 1817 Doctor of Theology, from October Extra-Ordinary Professor, and from September 1818 Ordinary Theology and Archimandrite, 1819 Rector; 1822 Bishop of Revel and Vicar of St. Petersburg with retention as Rector; 1825 Bishop of Kaluga; 1829 Archbishop of Ryazan; 1831 Tverskoy; 1848 Kazansky; in August 1856 Metropolitan of Kazan, and from October of Novgorod and St. Petersburg; died July 17, 1860 O.B. In the world, Osip Vecherkov, also the son of Deacon Ivan, Kursk Province, Novo-Oskol Uyezd, Vladimir Church in Sloboda Serebryanka; genus. On April 4, 1792, he studied at the Belogorodsk Seminary; upon leaving it 1814 Teacher of Mathematics and German, 1813 Poetry and Rhetoric; 1816 went at his own expense to the St. Petersburg Academy, from which he was released in the 3rd year as a senior candidate (but 5th on the list), with the right to receive a Master's degree in two years without testing; in August 1819 monk, Hierodeacon and Hieromonk; Teacher of Church History and Jewish Language of the Oryol (in Sevsk) Seminary and its Inspector; from August 20, 1823, Rector of the Ekaterinoslav Seminary and Professor of Theology; at the end of 1831 he was called to St. Petersburg for a shift; in Myrta, 1832, Bishop of Saratov and Tsaritsyn; in Genvar 1847 Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas; from April 1849 Archbishop; in November he was demanded to St. Petersburg to attend the Holy Synod, and here, on May 20, 1850, he died and was buried in the Lavra Feodorovskaya Church. ABOUT. It was Ignatius, in the light of Matthias Semenov; was educated in the Arkhangelsk Seminary (according to the “Review of Russian Spiritual Literature”, Philaret of Chernigov, p. 260, in Olonets; but the Olonets Diocese was opened only in 1828, formed from the North-Eastern part of Novgorod; see “Essay on the life of Irenaeus, Bishop of Yekaterinburg. St. Petersburg. 1860, p. 7), then Teacher of Greek, Sacred and General History in the Higher Department of the District School, 1814 its Inspector; 1816 Teacher at the Seminary of the Greek and French Languages, from July 1820 monk; from February 1821, Hegumen of the Nikolsky Korelsky Monastery; with Martha Bachelor of Greek at the Lower Division of the St. Petersburg Academy; from July, by the Commission of Theological Schools, he was elevated to Master of Theology and moved to the class of Theological Sciences; from 1823 Rector of the Novgorod Seminary; 1827 Bishop of Olonetsky; 1843 Archbishop of Donskoy; 1817 Voronezh. He died in Genvar (20th), 1850, in St. Petersburg, summoned there to attend the Holy Synod. He wrote a lot, but his essay “On the Sacraments of the Holy Church,” ed., is especially remarkable. in St. Petersburg 1849 and corrected against the Raskolniks and Protestants, of whom the latter caused him great grief through their efforts and were almost even the cause of illness and death. (See “Review of Russian Spiritual Literature” by Filaret, Archbishop of Chernigov, p. 261). O.B. Grigory. See note above. 3rd to this letter. O.B. During this stay in St. Petersburg, Innocent fell ill with such a dangerous illness that he was never completely freed from it, and therefore was forced to ask to go to his Diocese, for the possible improvement of his health by traveling and staying in a warm climate. Especially frequent colds often visited him. O.B. In this monastery, originally built by Innocent in 1850, he, on his visit on April 25-28, 1857, suffered from that dangerous cold, which soon (exactly a month later) brought him to the grave. O.B. Pupil of the Kyiv Academy, 1st graduating class of 1823; from 1824 monk; 1829 Archimandrite; 1829–1843 Rector of the Mogilev and Smolensk Seminaries; then in the East (in Athens) until 1848; then the Abbot of the Crimean monasteries; from 1853 Bishop of Odessa and Vicar of Kherson; 1857 Orlovsky; died 1867. O. B. From September 1852, although he was called back in May to attend the Holy Synod, due to illness his departure was postponed until August, and then until September. O.B. See note above. 1st to letter 48. O.B. Eugene, who was brought up at the Moscow Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, upon graduation in 1811, became a monk in 1819 and Archimandrite, from 1818 to 1829 Rector of the Tobolsk and Kostroma Seminaries; 1829 Bishop of Tambov, 1832 Minsk, 1834 Archbishop of Kartalin and Exarch of Georgia, 1844 Astrakhan; called to St. Petersburg to attend the Holy Synod, returned to Astrakhan in 1855, and in 1856 was transferred to Pskov. O.B. Smaragd. See note above. 12th to letter 18th. O.B. Arkady, who completed his studies in 1808 at the Vladimir Seminary; 1814 monk, 1818 Archimandrite, 1822–1828 Rector of the Mogilev, Minsk and Yaroslavl Seminaries; 1828 Bishop of Orenburg; 1831 Perm; 1833 Archbishop, 1851 Olonetsky. O.B. On this letter is written by Gabriel: “Received. 12 Sep. 1854, from Innocent, Archbishop of Kherson." ABOUT. Diamond cross for wearing on the hood, July 23, 1854, for valiant service to the Church and the Fatherland, rendered during the enemy bombardment of Odessa on April 10. O.B. This premonition did not come true. O.B. July 15, 1854, where he appeared without an invitation, but surveying his Diocese in the Crimea. O.B. Bishop of Nizhny Novgorod since 1850. See note above. 1st to letter 10th. O.B.. During his stay there from September 1852 O.B. February 19th, 1855. O.B. And he visited. As you know, Innocent was in Sevastopol even during the bombing of it, and performed divine services there, for which, in addition to the Highest gratitude, he received a silver medal on the St. George Ribbon. O.B. On this letter is written by Gabriel: “Received. 20 Apr. 1856, from Innocent Arch. Kherson". O.B. We are talking about my illness from the autumn of 1836 almost to the spring of 1857. O.B. The Reverend Gabriel inscribed on this letter: “Received. April 12, 1857." Died on May 26, 1857, in Odessa. O.B. This autobiography in the list of Vologda Bishops, stored in the cathedral library, was written by the hand of His Eminence Stephen himself: We place it without any changes. The time of His Grace Stephen's tenure at the see of the Volyn Diocese includes the time of service in Zhitomir of a person who was later destined to occupy one of the first places in the Russian Hierarchy. We are talking about a native of the Volyn Diocese, Grigory Antonovich Rafalsky, who under His Grace Stephen was the Archpriest of the Zhitomir Cathedral, the Economist of the Bishop's House, the Dean of the city churches and a member of the Consistory. This Rafalsky, later the Most Reverend Archbishop of Warsaw and finally the Metropolitan of Novgorod and St. Petersburg, Anthony, according to one biographical note about him, owed a lot in official terms to His Eminence Stephen, who knew how to appreciate his merits. (See “The Wanderer,” 1861, in the October Book, pages 140–148). You might be interested in: