Letters of His Grace Evlampius, Bishop of Vologda to Innocent, Archbishop of Kherson from 1843 to 1850.

(Reported by N.I. Barsov) I greet Your Eminence on the great holiday of Holy Easter 2. May the risen Lord, who filled everything with joy with His resurrection, fill you and through you and everything that exists around you with His joy. To my great pleasure, I received Your Eminence’s letter with the transmission of a copy of the First Week of Great Lent on March 13, in the very middle of Lent, at the most favorable time in order to give timely decent use to the copies of the same Week sent after that. But I don’t know why, I received information about this already on Easter days, which is why the order about them was made then. When we have properly managed the first shipment, then we will more confidently begin accepting other books. The matter in itself is good and useful, but it requires that you do not have trouble with the accounts. Despite the opening of a Edinoverie church, the matter of converting to Edinoverie is rather complicated by the fact that the schismatic authorities have allowed their wooden chapel to be fenced off from the stone Edinoverie church, which is located in perfect contiguity with it, with a solid high wooden fence. In exchange, in the fifth week of Lent, more than 50 of the Dmitrov schismatics expressed a desire to belong to the parish of the same faith Oryol Church, assuring that all their brethren would also agree if they were allowed to have a blessed chapel in the city. Submitted but not yet granted permission. The antimension proposed by Your Eminence, dating back up to 350 years 4, is a miracle, especially if it were in the Perm region. Here, my newly converted co-religionists themselves took a calico cloth, based on the model of the antimension printed in their large breviary, wrote on it everything necessary with the good hand of their icon painter, presented this antimension for consecration, and so they consecrated two antimensions for two churches. However, your antiquity, which you deigned to offer me, I will respectfully keep in mind in the future when the need arises. Requesting your prayers, with the deepest respect and heartfelt devotion, I have the honor to be— Evlampius, Ep. Orlovsky. I greet Your Eminence in the name of the Risen Savior 5 in order to receive forgiveness from you through the resurrection. With this name alone I hope to find forgiveness before you. Otherwise unanswerable. Last year, on March 6th, I received an entertaining and kind letter from you. The bright holiday of Easter and the shining light of Christ in your valor gave me a favorable opportunity to especially greet you, and I greeted you only to myself, silently. My weakness, which I brought with me, combined with weakness and lack of familiarity with the place, kept me in a kind of drowsiness and dullness of feelings. The whole year has passed no better. The almost natural, as you say, climate 6 has only just given me a better understanding, but has not yet had time to strengthen my weakness. It’s been a year and a half now, and with my infirmities, only now, in the approaching summer, I’m thinking of visiting further into the classical, as you put it, side, and of course not to observe antiquities, but at least to get acquainted with the most significant and necessary places. Speaking of antiquities. The handwritten “Collection of Information about the Vologda Diocese” 7 says that only one ancient icon of the Holy Trinity was found in the church of the Vozhemskaya volost, with a Zyryansk inscription and is now in the Vologda St. Sophia Cathedral. I asked the cathedral members about this ancient icon, and still have not received anything known from them 8. You are a lover of antiquities, from whose gaze hardly anything remarkable can escape, can you tell us something about this icon? However, what thoughts and assumptions did Your Eminence have regarding Vologa? diocese, when I was its representative, I did not find any files in the archives. The persons whom Your Eminence recommended to my location are all worthy of your Archpastoral recommendation, and for me they constitute my closest collaborators in business. The most distinguished residents of the nobles and merchants still remember with special reverence your Eminence, that Vologda was adorned by your Archpastorship; Stepan Grigorievich 9, the governor and his family, are mainly devoted to you. But the leader in acquiring information about local local affairs - both church and communal - I found here the Most Reverend Archpastor Irenaeus 10, who always remembers Your Eminence with special love and gratitude. Would you be kind enough to accept this brief explanation of mine as some kind of atonement for my long-term shortcomings before you? Asking for your Archpastoral prayers, and, on favorable occasion, words of strengthening to reinforce my weakness, with perfect respect and complete devotion and love, I have the honor to be... Evlampius, Ep. Vologda. P.S. Deign to announce with an Archpastoral word the kiss of peace in the Lord to your beloved Fr. Rector of the seminary, Fr. Archimandrite Parthenius, Orlovsky, my colleague and co-worker. Conducting Your Eminence with my wishes to the upcoming great triumph of St. Easter 11, I pray to the Risen Lord that, in accordance with the greatness of the celebration, he will grant you the grace to celebrate and spend it in a peaceful mood and a favorable course of your affairs. Greetings on the feast of St. Easter, I greet you with the mercy of God in your Archpastoral ascension 12. May the Lord's grace increase Your Eminence to go and succeed more and more in accordance with the abundance of the strength of your spirit. Your Eminence's most humble servant P.S.O. Cathedral Archpriest 13 is not at all deprived of the benefits that he enjoyed. But as he himself withdrew from this matter 14, and it received some change in its course, while the new order was established, we really gave him less honor. Now the indicated change has taken place, and Fr. The archpriest, whom I value, will begin the line according to his dignity. The cathedral members asked me, as an aid to their meager maintenance: a) to petition for an increase in their salaries; b) for permission to sell the wastelands 15 assigned to the cathedral, due to their remoteness from Vologda, completely devastated by the felling of the best forest from the Tenants themselves. They hope to receive more benefits from the interest on the amount received for the sale than how much they receive for rent, as they say, for the wastelands, cutting down forests is devastating. Please take care of the hasty return to us of the Highly approved plans for the seminary, which I forwarded back to the Chief Prosecutor to explain the misunderstandings. Your Eminence knows that the seminary here is cramped and dilapidated, weedy and black. With such a material and material state of the seminary, and the administration of it, in part it was decrepit, in part it looked like something dilapidated, or heterogeneous. Rector Adrian is strange to the point of foolishness, self-conventional to the point of strangeness. Incessant complaints about him, either from his fellow members, or from his students, or from his mentors. The seminary under him in the opinion of local society fell in contrast to what it had been before. By its originality, it can upset the very spirit of the governed and remove them from the correct order. Here is one of his actions. Last year in May, I gave an order to select up to 12 students from seminaries and schools to sing in the left choir in the cathedral on major holidays. Your Eminence can judge how necessary this is when you remember the indigenous Vologda taste in singing (and the rector, it seems, had no taste for singing). The students, having not received proper orders from the seminary board, at first went little, and after the vacancy they did not go to all. In October, the seminary board received a reminder to encourage students. The proposal was left without action. In March the board was again reminded of the same thing. On March 8th, the disciples were ordered to show that they did not walk due to lack of votes. And on April 1st the board of the seminary asked: would they like to choose others and give them the same incentive to sing as regular singers who receive a salary and other benefits have? Thus, the board itself provides an open reason for students to disobey, and on the other hand, nourishes in them selfishness that is incompatible with spiritual education. I humbly ask you to take into account this and similar actions of Rector Adrian. Will you think that I’m complaining, but I didn’t use private measures? He also made a lot of private suggestions to him, as he had done to his former pupil, 16 and thereby irritated his prejudices and self-indulgence in his oddities. Now would not be the time to talk about it; but when it is harmful to remain silent, then one must speak out of necessity. I will expect a word of advice and help in this and other difficulties. I greet Your Eminence on the joyful day of the Nativity of Christ. I pray that the Chief Shepherd, who was born for the salvation of His people and who reveals His salvation through His chosen ones, will dwell and act in you with His life, His power, His glory, for the good of the Church and those who serve it. I have the honor to be Your Eminence's most humble servant Evlampy, E. Vologodsky. P.S. There is nothing special to say about our flock. If there is something special, it follows its own course. Our seminary, one might say, suffers from unsettled management. Is the rector, Archimandrite Adrian 17, known to Your Eminence? This is a stubborn, capricious, watchful person and capable of looking for evil; and indeed in many of his customs, especially in serving in the church, he is strange. His waywardness resulted in a lot of business and unpleasant correspondence; in the board of the seminary, especially in more significant matters, there is almost always disagreement and, consequently, disorder; Because of his stubbornness and shrewdness, many of his disciples suffered and continue to suffer a lot of harm; From his search, the former members of the seminary board were placed in the unpleasant position of responsibility for the misuse of the amount by the former rector Athanasius 18, who had already died. So this desire to be found, and of course to curry favor, did not spare the deceased brother. As the deceased O Athanasius enjoyed your patronage, then cover him up, as far as possible, both the deceased and, at the same time, the innocent accomplices in the recovery. If such a penalty is necessary: ​​then divide it between the living and the dead; and if there is nothing to recover from the deceased, then the deceased will be covered with forgiveness, and the living accomplices will at least be relieved of being held accountable for sins other than their own. Of the many troubles that have arisen from the rector, this is the biggest; There are many less significant ones. At the same time, one cannot help but mention the circumstances of the expansion of the seminary church, which from two cramped churches was reduced to the position of one 19 rather extensive church. At first, when I insisted on the need for this extension of the church for seminary worship, the rector decisively opposed the matter as inconvenient with a journal; and when the church is spread out it is good for the congregation of seminary students; then does not accept expenses for the seminary account; but the church does not have funds for this item, and the distribution was actually for the seminary students. Thus, in our country, the most well-intentioned enterprises to improve order are met with open opposition. It must also be added that when the seminary under this rector fell a lot and in itself in general opinion, then the Prilutsky monastery will fall and become empty from the oddities of this abbot. Moreover, the measures consoled me with your two letters dated January 17th and 23rd. The first almost contains the answer to what I wrote on holidays to Your Eminence with the addition of some thoughts. In another matter, beyond our aspirations, you deign to open a claim regarding the state of our debt to you. Can there be any doubt that we are your unpaid debtors, constantly owing you respect, diligence, and love? Isn't that enough? But your claim, although modest and quiet, concerns the very thing of a monetary debt. Debt is not exactly a small thing. But here's a strange thing! Until this time, there was no idea or rumor about him; and it’s not surprising when it’s almost ten years old. We'll manage. Meanwhile, it turned out that instead of a distant debt that has fallen into oblivion, we have a real, immediate debt that actually falls on me, a debt for non-payment of money for 50 copies of the teachings: “God is with us,” sent here back in 1845. Good book stewards either gave them away or lost them; cleaning up a matter that has long bothered me has become difficult; however, how to respond to Your Eminence’s demand for a long-standing debt has been cleared, and we are now forwarding 73 rubles. Ser., while we pay our own, necessary debt. Isn’t the price of the Akathists sent at 1 ruble per copy too high? When the Lord hastens both this work of faith and the labor of love of Your Eminence, then put your hand to correct the Akathist to the Dormition of the Theotokos. He is weak in many places. Did I quietly speak to the Holy Synod about our rector when there was correspondence about cholera in July? If you would like to hear another addition, pay attention to my presentation to the Holy Synod at the end of December last year regarding the spread of the Cyril Seminary Church. Here the quality of the rector of the seminary seems to be clearly indicated. Then we had a revision in the spring. Inspector 20 clearly saw, heard, and even experienced quite sharp unpleasant cases of the rector’s actions. I am afraid that if he is dismissed from the seminary, and not from the monastery, he will also dismiss the monastery. What did you do with His Grace Archbishop Irenaeus, moving him from the acquired, assimilated and heated element to another? If he had remained in the Prilutsky monastery with such right, then, there is no doubt that he would have lived here in the depths of the world and the monastery under his leadership would have flourished, risen, and he would have ruled in the full sense. We must conclude with a request to Your Eminence. At the beginning of October last year, a case was submitted from the consistory about a charge against me by the local treasury chamber. So it pleased the adviser of the control department to firmly intend to make trouble for me. The account is sought out, unfair; however, when sending the standard amount for the 1st half by the treasury chamber, this charge is 75 rubles. ser. deducted and the money was not sent to the cathedral. This is how a person deliberately, deliberately, persistently achieves his goal. Pay mercifully just attention. About other things later. Help our weakness with your holy prayers and the strength of your strong spirit. Your Eminence's most humble servant P.S. His Excellency Stepan Grigorievich most sensitively thanks Your Eminence. You deigned to preface me with greetings and pleasant news. That’s why I was in no hurry to greet you with a light word, I was thinking more about the fact that if I can’t say anything pleasant to Your Eminence, then isn’t it possible to do something not unpleasant? Having settled on this thought, I decided, instead of a welcoming egg, to forward to Your Eminence the following 50 copies of the Akathist to the Intercession, 50 copies of the Passion of Christ and 25 copies. “First Week of Lent”, 125 rubles. ser., and it’s over: that’s how it’s done. Somehow the book “Limonar” was not found in church libraries: let’s look for it. But you are at the book sources and are looking for the Limonar with our broken treasures. Our St. Sophia Cathedral is being restored with painting; at the same time, everything will be renewed both inside and outside. At the first appeal, God sent us about 30 thousand rubles in donations. (assign.). But this is not enough; it will be necessary to repeat the appeal. In addition to the dilapidations throughout the cathedral, the cathedral sacristy is completely dilapidated, everything has been rebuilt; I wanted to get some leftovers from the collection for this part as well. Your former abbas 21 are engaged in the improvement of their monasteries: Arseny was seriously unwell in the winter; Palladium wants to begin spreading the church in his monastery in the spring. It seems that he is not averse to Your Eminence's invitation. I will announce to both of them your will. “What should we do with the extra people of clergy”? You might think that people with abilities will never be superfluous; If they don’t find a place in their rank, they will find it in other ranks, as is partly what is happening now. The question may concern especially the less capable, those who are expelled from seminaries and schools and, due to the multitude of them, do not find a place for themselves in their own, much less in other ranks. Isn’t it possible to establish, among other things, a special rank, a clan of free cultivators from the clergy? Give them lands at the monasteries; Their immediate purpose could be to fill staff positions at monasteries and bishops' houses, as well as guard positions at churches. How much correspondence now regarding full-time ministers! Then full-time ministers, having been in the ecclesiastical department, would have received both determination and dismissal by order of the local ecclesiastical authorities. Here, by the way, is the seed of the project. Having developed, perhaps something will be built from it. Your Eminence, Most Gracious Archpastor, your humble servant Evlampius, Ep. Vologda. You are encouraging me to write something. Here is a meager firstfruits: “The first week of Lent” is before you. Deign to at least sort through the sheets and throw them away. But what appears in the manuscript, pay your Archpastoral gracious attention to that. Take a look, and if it suits, please, Most Gracious Archpriest, with your participation and assistance, transfer it to the St. Petersburg spiritual censorship for the fastest possible consideration, so that, upon immediate consideration, immediately send 22 for printing by Holy Week to the Moscow bookseller Manukhin, who printed the first week, and with whom there may be the same condition in the discussion of printing "Holy Week". I instruct the reviewed manuscript to be immediately sent to Professor Pavel Ivanovich Savvaitov in Moscow. Please, Most Gracious Archpastor, as far as possible, speed up this matter according to my intention and in accordance with your Archpastoral desire, and thereby again encourage me to continue, in fulfillment of your truly brotherly fatherly inspiration and instruction. Whatever favorable results may follow from this circumstance, do not deprive me of timely, immediate or indirect notice. Lend me, your debtor, with your love and benevolent assistance in this matter, most devoted to your Eminence, your most humble servant Evlampius Bishop of Vologda. P.S. The manuscript is divided into two special packages so that everything goes together by easy mail. Would it not be appropriate to divide the consideration of the manuscript between Mr. members, for possible expediting of consideration? Maybe it would be good for us to reconsider something else ourselves. This will also help the censors; The strength is this: a precious egg for Christ’s day. If I showed impatience, it was nothing more than a desire to see if the matter would be successful according to the assumption. Didn't have time. However, you contribute to its strict censorship, although I will review it in my own way after censorship. Now I am sending “Lemonar”, exactly the kind you want, and part of the debt of 100 rubles. instead of greeting Happy Holidays. After this there will be no special greeting. I will greet you mentally, - with the deepest respect and devotion to Your Eminence, my most humble servant Evlampius Bishop of Vologda. April 15, 1850. R.S. Your “First Week” was received, along with the Akathists, it seems in 1848, 25 copies. in French 23. They could not sell them without difficulty. This message has been cleared. Now we can pause with the sending of the “First Week”; we must wait for the right time. The rules of the former Candle Commission are forwarded. The candle business here would now be going well if I had not received the housekeeper who came from Orel, a man I think I know. During 1847 and 1848 he caused me much trouble and loss in the candle department. Not less than 4 thousand sulfur. the candle management suffered losses and damages from him. Will this be rewarded soon? That's why we roll quietly. And so you left for your Odessa. I wished you a good journey: now I wish you a peaceful stay in your Odessa. In addition to the rules for candle management, I am transmitting to you six reporting forms, which are considered more suitable for use, or considerations. Others are not worth attention. If you establish order, the local will indicate order and its local way will act. You ask: what is the benefit of selling candles for the diocese? If the candle production goes well, the overall benefit will be that candles can be sold to churches at a reasonable price; more particular benefit for the place that will be engaged in candle production. Here, the civilian manufacturer of the sale was paid 200 rubles. ser. Perhaps the sale is made through a reliable monk or novice - then the payment will be more moderate. And those in charge of the candle business, as persons of clergy, will receive remuneration at the discretion of the diocesan authorities. Having soon left St. Petersburg, you did not tell us anything that you promised to tell us. Asking you from the Lord for health, long life, prosperity, and asking yourself for your saintly prayers, I have the honor to be Your Eminence’s most humble servant P.S. Yesterday, on the 19th, was the memory of the Monk Cornelius of Komel, and since the 12th I have been staying here at the monastery of the monk and celebrated the 24th memory of the saint instead of the rector. And the abbot writes on April 18 that he intends to go to his monastery; says that he will leave the Korsun Monastery around April 30. Now, whatever you like: if you convince him to stay with you, may the world be in your power; and the monastery was empty without a rector. Treasurer Lot is weak. However, our affairs, by the grace of God, seem to be in silence. Eminence Evlampy, 2nd year student of Moscow. spirit. Academy, Master; from 1822 monk; 1825, archimandrite; 1838 Bishop of Yekaterinburg, vicar of the Perm diocese; 1840 Bishop of Oryol; 1844 Vologda; in 1852 he was transferred, with the rank of archbishop, to the see of the Tobolsk diocese. In 1856, upon request, he was retired to the Sviyazhsk first-class Mother of God Monastery of the Kazan diocese, and Marta died here on the 12th day of 1862. The first of his proposed letters to Innocent was written from the Oryol diocese, and all the others from Vologda. Easter in 1843 was April 11th. Dmitrovsk, district city ​​of Oryol province. 80 versts from the city of Orel. About this antimins and about other, also ancient, antimenses, Rev. Innocent, in one of his letters to Gabriel, Archbishop of Ryazan, wrote that he compiled a collection of them in Vologda. The Right Reverend Evlampius was from the Poshekhonsky district of the Yaroslavl province. This “collection”, compiled by the Right Reverend Evgeniy Bolkhovitinov, former Bishop of Vologda, is still kept in the Vologda library. department cathedral If the Vladyka asked the council members about the content of the Zyryan inscription on the icon of the Holy Trinity, then they really could not answer anything about the Vladyka’s question, because at that time this inscription had not yet been read even by the learned Zyryan-philes. See in the Vologda Diocesan Gazette. 1871, in No. 15, an article by P. D. Shestakov: “Reading the ancient Zyryansk inscription” and so on. Stepan Grigorievich Volkhovskoy, Vologda civil governor. Archbishop Iriney (Ivan Gavrilovich Nestorovich) In February 1848, the Highest Appointment of His Grace Innocent to the diocese of Kherson-Tavria followed. That is, from the management of the Candle Commission, which was in charge of the production and sale of church candles and of which Archpriest Nordov was the chairman. To explain this circumstance, here are two excerpts from letters from Fr. Nordov to Rev. Innocent, published in Volog. Eparch. Ved. 1885. In one of. them, from 12 Dec. In 1845, he wrote: “And our Candle Commission has finished its career... And my salary for the candle part has left me... The candle business is managed by the House itself.” In another passage from 15 Dec. 1848 he notified: "The candle management of the House has already disgraced itself... Important shortcomings and abuses have been revealed. This is the fruit that our Eminence (Eulampius) sees, having snatched the candle management from my hands." These wastelands still belong to the cathedral. Rev. Evlampius calls the rector Adrian his student, probably because during Adrian’s studies in Moscow. spirit. Academy Evlampius was an inspector at this academy. Adrian Tyazhelov, senior candidate of the 6th year Moscow. spirit. acad. Appointed in 1828 as inspector of the Vyatka Seminary. In 1833, rector of the Tambov Seminary; in 1841 rector of Chernig. semin.; in 1848 rector Volog. seminaries; in 1849 he was retired and placed to live in the Alexanderevsky Lavra; then became the rector of Staritsky, Tversk. province, monastery In 1868 he was appointed rector of the Astrakhan Transfiguration Monastery; in 1870 he was moved to the Volyn diocese, but before reaching his destination, he died in the Ugreshsky monastery near Moscow. – Former students of Vologa. semin. The 40s probably remember this eccentric rector well. Afanasy Borisovich, from students and professors of Kiev. spirit. Academy, appointed rector of Volog. seminary in 1841 (the same year as the arrival of His Grace Innocent in Vologda); in 1846 he was transferred to the rector of the Chernigov Seminary and there in 1847 he died of cholera. Through breaking through two arches in the wall that separated the cold church from the warm one. Professor Moscow Spirit. Academy, Archpriest Pyotr Spiridonovich Delitsyn, who inspected the Vologda Seminary in 1848 twice, first in July and then in September. The consequence of this audit was the dismissal of Rector Adrian in March 1849 from the post of rector and from the abbotship of the Spasoprilutsky Monastery. “Your Abbas”: the abbots mentioned below Arseny, abbot of the Kornilyevo-Komelsky monastery and Pallady, abbot of the Arsenyev-Komelsky monastery are called this way, because they entered the Vologda diocese in the same year with the arrival of the Most Reverend in Vologda. Innocent, and at his invitation. If there is no obstacle from the writing side; What will hinder the composition, then, at your discretion, you deign to eliminate. Note author. The translation of “The First Week” into French was made in 1845 by the famous Alexander Skarlatovich Sturdzoi, who subsequently translated this week into Greek. The abbot of the Korniliev monastery, Abbot Arseny, about whom it is said above in letter 6 that he was seriously ill in the winter of 1849, was now in the Kyiv diocese, in the local Korsun monastery, where he lived, perhaps, to improve his health.