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Holy Hieromartyr Nikon and his squad - 199 of his disciples “Sow a good seed in the hearts of your children... Do not be embarrassed by the slowness of its germination... Sow and believe that, although invisible, it nevertheless ripens in the depths of a child’s soul... The time will come - the seed will sprout!” These words of one experienced figure in the field of educating human souls are comforting. Their validity is confirmed by many examples from the past life of mankind. One of these appears in the life of Saint Nikon, remembered today, who lived in the 3rd century. By rank he was a warrior; his father was a pagan, and his mother was a Christian, who, although she tried to persuade her son to accept Christianity, but, not having an assistant in the Christian upbringing of her son in her pagan husband, did not have the desired success in this. She did not have time to do this even later, when Nikon, amid his work and amid his distracted life among his comrades, had neither enough time nor the desire to delve into the saving suggestions of his mother. However, the good seeds did not disappear without a trace... and, although Nikon, apparently, had a superficial attitude towards the Christian inspirations of his mother, some of them were imprinted on his soul, and the moment came when they affected and made a saving revolution in the fate of his present and future life... So, precisely, one day, carefully discussing with her son about all sorts of accidents and dangers that arise during the war, Nikon’s mother said to him: “My dear son! If you happen to fall into any mortal danger during a war, then protect yourself with the sign of the cross, and you will be freed from the hands of your enemies: neither an arrow, nor a spear, nor a sword will hit you, and in the midst of the bloody massacre you will remain unharmed." These words, poured out like a blessing from the heart of a believing mother, responded with grace at a time of need... It happened one day to Nikon, during a bloody battle, when attacked by enemies, carried away by a brave impulse, to remain alone, surrounded by enemies. His death seemed inevitable. Ready to fall under the blows of his enemies, he suddenly remembered the words of his mother and, with faith, protecting himself with the sign of the cross, he exclaimed: “Christ Almighty God! Show me at this hour the power of Your cross, so that I too may become Your servant!” And suddenly, with an invincible impulse, he broke out from among his enemies, held back their onslaught and, at that time, allowing his comrades to gather new strength, thus contributing to the final victory over the enemies... Amazed by his courage, his comrades began to glorify his feat, but Nikon, the child of the mother who begged God for him, illuminated from above, began to glorify the One True God, exclaiming: “Great is the God of Christians, who drives out and conquers enemies with the sign of the cross!” Great; Nikon’s mother’s joy was inexpressible when, returning home, he told her about what had happened to him and, now listening with an attentive heart to her Christian instructions, he now perceived them as if they were ripe soil for such a blessed seed. One day, falling at his mother’s feet, he exclaimed: “Pray for me, my mother, pray that I will know the truth, that I will learn to act according to the will of God, that God will count me among His chosen flock! Your instructions have shown me the path of salvation; pray for me, so that I do not deviate from it, so that I do not become weak!” Nikon's mother advised him to turn to a priest who would enlighten him and baptize him. But it was not easy to find a priest at that time, since almost all Christians, due to persecution, were hiding in the mountains and deserts. Nikon did not find a priest in the city. Having said goodbye to his mother and giving her a blessing and a request not to leave her for a long time, since she was sick and old, he went to the East. The ship on which he traveled landed on the island of Chios. Nikon went ashore and spent several days alone on the mountain, in constant and fiery prayer, so that the Lord would show him a leader on the path of salvation. Then, boarding the ship again, after a two-day voyage, he came ashore at a mountain called Ganos 208. Here, in the mountain caves, he met Theodosius, Bishop of Kizichesk, who settled here with his disciples. Nikon also found shelter with him, learned the law of God from him, and accepted St. baptism and began to lead a monastic life, indulging himself with such zeal in prayer, fasting and labors that the brethren and Theodosius himself were surprised at him. Three years passed like this. Theodosius, sensing the approach of his death, elevated Nikon to the rank of deacon, then to priest, and finally, ordaining him a bishop, entrusted him with 190 monks, gave him instructions and ordered him to retire to the island of Sicily. After the death of Theodosius, all the brothers, together with Nikon, went to Italy. Nikon then hurried to visit his native city, Naples, to see his mother. He found her still alive, but she seemed to be waiting for him in order to say goodbye to him in this life... Seeing her son, hearing how he spent these last years of separation from her, she fell to her knees and exclaimed: “I thank You, Lord, that You allowed me to see my son, who dedicated himself to Your service! And now I pray to You, take my soul into Your hands!” And soon after she died... Having met in Naples with his former friends and comrades, Nikon converted many of them to Christ, telling them how he himself was brought to God. Nine warriors decided to follow him to Sicily and, together with 190 monks who were with Nikon, settled in one deserted place, near the Asinos River - now Alcantara. And everyone began to live by the labor of their hands. But when the ruler of the country found out about them, he demanded them and exhorted them to renounce Christ. The monks firmly refused, and they were all put to death, except Nikon, who was subjected to terrible torture. He was scorched with fire and tied to mad horses, which dragged his wounded body. Finally, the ruler Quintian, the one from whom St. also suffered. Agathia (comm. February 5), ordered the martyr’s head to be cut off with a sword. It was during the reign of Decius, in 250 - Hegemon Quintian, according to the prediction of St. Nikon, died a terrible death: he was bitten, trampled and thrown by horses while crossing the river. Psimif – (what is now Giaretta, on the eastern side of the island). † Venerable Nikon of Pechersk Blessed Nikon came to the Monk Anthony in the cave already as a priest and monk; he was probably tonsured at the department; under the influence of Anthony's high exploits, Nikon matured in spiritual perfection; by the will of the holy elder, Nikon, as a priest and as one who stood firmly on the spiritual ladder, tonsured those who came to labor in the same cave. When, by order of Rev. Anthony was tonsured after Varlaam Vyshatich, the treasurer and favorite of the Grand Duke Ephraim, the Grand Duke, in great anger, called Nikon to him. “Did you tonsure them without my command?” he asked Nikon. Nikon answered: “By the grace of God, I tonsured, at the command of the King of Heaven, Jesus Christ, who called them to such a feat.” An answer that is as firm in the face of the mighty of the earth as it is full of love for the spiritual mentor, whom he does not put in danger instead of himself. “Then go,” said the prince, and persuade them to return home: otherwise I will send you and everyone living with you into captivity, and I will order you to dig up the cave.” “Do whatever you please,” answered Nikon; but I cannot take away the soldiers from the King of Heaven.” Izyaslav sent to disperse the monks; but then, at the admonition of his wife, he sent to beg Anthony to stay quietly in the cave. - The love of silence, with the prince’s anger not completely calmed down, forced Nikon to leave Anthony’s cave. – Together with the monk of the monastery of St. Mina he went (1054) to look for another silent place. Having reached the Sea of ​​Azov, Nikon fell in love with a secluded place near Tmutarakan (Taman) and began to pursue asceticism here. “This place,” says the reverend. Nestor, by the grace of God it flourished; the great Nikon founded the Church of St. Mother of God, and a great monastery was formed, which to this day retains similarities with the Pechersk Monastery" 209. Lecturer Nikon gained high respect from the Tamans. When the treacherous Greek killed the valiant prince Rostislav, which was in 1065, the Tamans asked the blessed one. Nikon to go as their ambassador to Prince Svyatoslav in Chernigov, so that the prince would send his son Gleb to them to reign. Nikon agreed. Having fulfilled his assignment in Chernigov, he visited the Pechersk monastery. Theodosius, tonsured venerable. Nikon, and now abbot of Pechersk, received Nikon with spiritual joy and deep respect; The great ascetics fell at each other’s feet when they met, then hugged each other and cried for a long time from the joy of meeting. Theodosius asked Nikon not to be separated from him. Nikon gave his word, having arranged affairs in his monastery, to come to the monastery of Theodosius 210. Having escorted Prince Gleb to Tmutarakan, Nikon made orders in his monastery, and then arrived in Kyiv. Theodosius showed Nikon the most respectful love and took him for his father. “When he went away somewhere, Nikon was entrusted with the responsibility of all the brethren. Sometimes he allowed the great Nikon to offer teaching to the brethren in his place. Many times, when the great Nikon sat and bound books, blessed. Theodosius sat with him and spun the threads needed for this task 211. Here is a high example of Christian love and Christian simplicity! It was pleasant for Nikon to live with Theodosius; but (1068) civil unrest and unrest arose in Kyiv: Izyaslav was expelled from Kyiv, and the throne of the Grand Duke was occupied by his younger brother Svyatoslav. This outraged the conscience of many. - Nikon, who began his monastic life with a cave life, loved a quiet life, inaccessible to everyday worries. Therefore, with two monks, he retired again to Tmutarakan. – Here the caring Prince Gleb then measured the distance of Tmutarakan from Kerch, leaving an inscription on stone 212, and in 1069 he already reigned in Novgorod. - Probably, blessed one. Nikon took part in the fact that in Tmutarakan his brother Roman Svyatoslavich was calmly accepted in Gleb’s place. “But the worries of the princes did not give him peace here either.” Stormy Oleg, after a bloody battle with the Grand Duke, ran (1078) to Tmutarakan and excited his brother to go to war with Vsevolod. The monk did not expect anything good from this for the princes themselves, which was justified; Roman was killed by the very people he led to war; and the stormy Oleg Kozara was captured and sent to Constantinople. - Nikon, without waiting for these sad consequences of the worldly rebellion, left Tmutarakan (1078) 213. Fulfilling Theodosius’s and his own desire to spend his last years in the Cave Monastery, Nikon arrived at the Pechersk Monastery; the brethren, knowing how Theodosius respected him, gave him the abbess at the Theodosius monastery 214. The great disciples of Anthony and Theodosius were still alive here: Isaac the recluse, Matthew the perspicacious, Agapit the doctor, Gregory the wonderworker. “Abba Nikon was pleased to see their exploits and talk with them. – In 1083, icon painters came to Nikon from Constantinople, hired, as they said, by the heads of the Pechersk monastery, Anthony and Theodosius. Nikon, telling them that it had been 10 years since these leaders died, showed them images of Anthony and Theodosius. They are the ones who hired us, the icon painters said. At the same time, Greek merchants brought mosaics to decorate the church. Thus, under the supervision of St. Nikon, the great Pechersk Church was decorated with icons and mosaics 215. In managing the brethren, the Monk Nikon took care to preserve exactly everything established by the Monk Theodosius, and the Lord blessed this zeal, breathing high humility. “For the first week of fasting, says the Monk Nestor, due to special abstinence, Rev. Our father Theodosius decreed that on Fridays the purest breads, also prepared with honey and poppy seeds, should be offered to good ascetics.” This is what the great Nikon ordered to do. But once, when Nikon ordered the cellarer to prepare the bread, the cellarer “disobeyed and lied, saying that there was no flour to prepare such bread. – God did not despise the work and prayer of the saints. “After the Holy Liturgy, when everyone was going to a Lenten lunch, they brought a cartload of bread from a place they had not expected at all. Seeing this, the brothers glorified God. Then, two days later, the cellarer ordered (for Sunday) to bake bread from the flour that he had previously said was not available. - The bakers, when they were kneading the dough and pouring warm water, saw a frog boiling in that water. So it was defiled that it was done out of disobedience 216.” Blessed Nikon had to endure quite a few sorrows from his brethren. And they rebelled against him, as against blessed Stephen, with murmuring and indignation; but he stayed in the monastery 217. He witnessed the will, which showed by its consequences how terrible it is to break a given word and swear to a lie. Two Kievites, John and Sergius, in front of the Pechersk Icon of the Mother of God, which was then already glorified, entered into a spiritual brotherhood with each other. - After some time, John became ill and, feeling the proximity of death, invited the blessed abbot Nikon to him; with him, having distributed a lot of property to the poor, he gave 1,000 hryvnia of silver and 100 hryvnia of gold to Sergius; He was entrusted with his five-year-old son Zacharias and bequeathed to give his son silver and gold when he reaches adulthood. Having reached the age of 15, Zechariah asked Sergius to transfer his father's property to him. “Your father,” answered Sergius, gave his property to God, ask Him; I don’t owe anything to you or my father; your father was so stupid that he distributed his property to the poor and left you beggars.” The young man cried for a long time after listening to such an insulting review of his father; then he said to Sergius: “Give me at least half of what my father left; and let the other be yours.” Sergius refused, showering father and son with abuse. Zechariah asked for the third part, then the tenth. Sergius refused that too. “If you didn’t take anything from my father,” Zechariah finally said, go, swear it before the icon of the Mother of God, before which you entered into an alliance of spiritual brotherhood with my father.” Sergius was so carried away by greed for money that he went and said in front of the icon of the Mother of God: “I did not take 1,000 hryvnia of silver and 100 hryvnia of gold.” But when he wanted to kiss the holy icon, he could not approach it and, leaving the church, he shouted: “Reverend Fathers Anthony and Theodosius! forbid the cruel angel from destroying me; pray to the Most Holy Theotokos for me, that unclean spirits may be driven away from me; let them take the silver and gold from my cage.” This terrified everyone. They sent Sergius to his house and found 2,000 hryvnia of silver and 200 hryvnia of gold in a sealed box. Thus, the Lord does not remain in debt to anyone 218. Blessed Nikon, after long and God-pleasing deeds, rested peacefully on March 23rd, 1088, no less than 86 years old. His relics rest in the cave of St. Anthony 219. “Holy Father Nikon the Wonderworker, Abbot of Pechersk,” this is how Kalnofoysky shows him here. † Repose of St. Pachomius of Nerekhta Nerekhta was known in civilian life even before the appearance of the Mongols, 220 but only in the 14th century did it become famous for the piety of one ascetic, the Monk Pachomius. The Monk Pachomius, baptized Jacob 221, son of the Vladimir priest Ignatius, seven years old, “was quickly given to study the sacred books.” Education, carried out under the instruction of the word of God, formed a good youth in Jacob; when “he became familiar with Divine Scripture,” it was a consolation for him to go to the church of God and praise the Lord; His most favorite place of prayer was the Nativity Monastery. Here, with the relics of the blessed prince Alexander Nevsky, his zeal to devote his life to serving the Lord was kindled in his soul. – After the death of his parent, his mother did not prevent him from fulfilling the desire of his soul; he entered his beloved Nativity Monastery and here he was tonsured with the name Pachomius. Then he was 21 years old. The young monk is entrusted to an experienced elder; the spiritual father was strict towards the spiritual son, but the disciple silently followed the orders of the mentor. The will of the abbot appointed the young monk to serve in the bakery; The monk worked tirelessly in the bakery and pacified his flesh with his labors. For several years Pachomius worked in a bakery. At the request of the rector, Saint Alexy, then Bishop of Vladimir (1352), ordained him as a hierodeacon. Pachomius matured in spiritual life. When St. Alexy restored the Konstantinovsky monastery in Vladimir (and this was in 1365) 222, he appointed Pachomius as abbot of this monastery. The monk diligently fulfilled the wishes of the saint for the monastery. He stayed in it as long as was necessary to establish its external and internal order. His heart had long been burning with the desire to create a monastery of prayer not within the walls of the city, but in the desert, where many could have need of it. And he decided to fulfill this desire. At night, secretly from everyone, Pachomius left the Constantine monastery, having nothing with him except the psalter and the book of canons. He came to the Nerekhta side. The place on the Gridenka River, which flows into Thessaloniki and then into the Volga, seemed to him beautiful and convenient for a monastic stay; Sypanovo, as that place was called, was located in a dense forest and represented an elevated peninsula. The monk went to the settlement of Nerekhta and asked the residents to give him Sypanovo to establish a monastery of prayer. The Nerekhta residents happily agreed to the request of the man of God. - Some of them went with him and helped him clear a place for his cell; others promised their help in setting up the monastery. Blessed Pachomius painted the image of the Holy Trinity. The hermit remained to labor in prayer. The Nerekhta residents fulfilled their promise: some helped him in his needs, while others came and stayed to live with him. His strict life inspired the piety of those who visited him. Monks also came to Pachomius with the desire to strive under his leadership; He willingly accepted laymen who expressed the same desire and tonsured them as monks. Saint Alexy, to whom he went to Moscow, lovingly blessed him to build a church and monastery of the Holy Trinity in a remote region. The Church of the Holy Trinity, decorated with icons and utensils, was consecrated with the living zeal of the monk. Having completed the construction of the church, Pachomius was zealously engaged in establishing spiritual order in the new monastery. He made it a rule that in his desert monastery the monks themselves would cultivate the land and eat from the labor of their hands. He plowed himself, setting an example for others. According to his rule, no one should have any property of his own in the monastery. Having built cells and a meal for monastics, he also built a hotel, where from time to time he himself served wanderers and pilgrims. Among the desert solitude, the ascetic succeeded in spiritual life. “Those who knew him saw in him a model of virtues and asked for his prayers with special faith. Having reached a very old age and feeling the approach of death, Pachomius appointed Theodore, who came to him from the Nativity Monastery, as his successor. - On March 21, 1384, he gathered the brethren and said goodbye to everyone; a day later he once again received the Holy Mysteries and died peacefully. – His ascetic body was placed on the right side of the altar of the Trinity Church. The monk Irinarh, a sincere disciple of the blessed elder, who helped him a lot in establishing the monastery with the art of icon painting, the next year after the death of the elder, he was subjected to the temptations of an unclean spirit. The chaste man was tormented by the rebellion of the flesh to the point that he confessed it to all the brethren. At night he either prayed with tears in front of the icon of the Savior and the Mother of God, or went out of his cell to the grave of the elder, asking him to help get rid of the unclean demon. Tired of prayer, he fell asleep and saw in front of him an old man with a long and white beard, with a staff in his hand. The elder tells him: “Brother Irinarh! So always pray to the Lord and His Most Pure Mother; I prayed for you, and the Lord had mercy on you, sin no more - you are healed.” With these words, he struck the monk on the left thigh with his staff. The monk jumped up and saw Pachomius, who added: “Do not be afraid, child: you see me, write my image, the Lord has numbered me among the saints; tell the brethren about this.” Irinarch told the abbot and the brethren about everything, showing the sign of a blow on his thigh. Freed from impure passion, he painted the image of Pachomius; They built a tomb over the grave and placed an icon here. During the construction of the stone church, the relics of the monk were seen incorrupt and a church was built over them in his name 223. Nowadays the local celebration of the saint is held on May 15, the day of the monastic angel of the saint. – In the parish church of the closed Sypanov monastery on the day of remembrance of the saint there is a large gathering of people, and believers receive healing from the saint’s cancer. †Sorrow of Saint Basil of Mangazeya Well-coordinated Vasily, according to the RCP. According to his life 224, he was a native of Yaroslavl, the son of the Yaroslavl petty merchant Theodore. Having become a clerk to a rich merchant, he went with his goods to Mangazeya, then a new Russian settlement among foreigners on the Taz River. Blessed Basil from a young age lived in the fear of God: he fervently prayed to God and kept himself pure. – The merchant-owner was a voluptuous and cruel man; he wanted to use Vasily as a tool to satisfy bestial passions. Unfortunately, this often happened then among the settlers of Siberia, as the strict letter of the patriarch shows 225. But the more common the vile vice was, the stricter God-fearing Vasily was towards himself. He was honest and faithful to the owner of the trade, but firmly remembered that God did not call us to uncleanness, but to holiness. The merchant threatened with revenge for not agreeing to his wild will; 19-year-old Vasily surrendered himself to the will of God. In the RKP. In the calendar we read: “the holy martyr Basil the youth, from the city of Mangazeya, a new wonderworker, who suffered from his master for his chastity.” According to the RCP. life, it was like that. On a festive morning, a merchant's shop was robbed. The merchant reported this to the governor Pushkin and announced that this theft was the work of Vasily - it could not have been accomplished without his participation. Pushkin, at the insistence of the angry merchant, immediately ordered Vasily to be brought to the hut and subjected him to torture. – Vasily said one thing, that he was innocent. The torture was so cruel that Vasily fell dead several times, but, coming to his senses, he repeated that he was innocent. The enraged owner hit Vasily’s church with a bunch of keys; the sufferer sighed heavily and closed his eyes. When they raised him on the rack again, they saw that he had already died. - Pushkin ordered to immediately put the body in a coffin and throw it into a swampy place, near the hut in which Vasily was tortured; the coffin was immersed in a swamp, and boards were placed through it for the passage of petitioners, archers and others, into the moving hut. This is how the unfortunate sinners thought to hide the crime 226. In 1652, under the governor Ignatius Stepanovich Korsakov, Vasily’s coffin with his incorrupt body appeared on top of the mud. A young man without a beard, with blond hair and in a white shirt appeared in a vision to the man from Mangazeya Stepan Shiryaev, who had noticed this coffin even earlier but ignored it; other industrialists received various healings at the tomb. Tradition said what a painful death and why the one hidden in the tomb died. The coffin was taken out and placed in a dry place, and a chapel was built over it. Here many received help for their needs and illnesses, performing memorial services for the peace of the murdered Vasily. In March 1670, Elder Tikhon, who founded a monastery on the Yenisei 10 years earlier, appears to a young man with blond hair, no beard, in white clothes and orders him to go to Mangazeya for his body; “I am that same Vasily,” said the one who appeared, about whom the people talk a lot and who was tortured by the governor Pushkin.” Tikhon went 500 versts to Mangazeya, which was now falling into disrepair and was losing its importance to the new Mangazeya 227. He found an incorruptible body in the indicated place and on May 10 brought it to the monastery. The life tells about the healing of many sick people who called on the name of Vasily in the monastery or at the place of death. In the chapel, on the site of ancient Mangazeya, they still see animal skins - offerings from the Yuras and other foreigners, and everyone considers it sacrilege to take anything from the chapel as their property. The settlers of the Turukhansk region have kept icons of St. since 1672. Vasily Mangazeisky. In some he appears as a fresh, blond youth, in a white shirt, and on the side he is shown being tortured by a merchant and a governor; others depict the Trinity Turukhansky Monastery, and above him Vasily praying, in a shirt and without shoes; On the 25th day of March, an all-night vigil service is held at the Trinity Monastery in honor of St. Vasily 228. Honoring the memory of St. Vasily, let us repeat the teaching of the Apostle about virtue, for which Vasily suffered. “Keep yourself pure,” the Apostle teaches (1 Tim. 5:22). Take care to be holy in body and soul (1 Cor. 7:34). Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor adulterers, nor fools, nor homosexuals, nor drunkards, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God (1 Tim. 6:9-10). The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body (1 Tim. 6:13). Fornication and all uncleanness and covetousness should not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints (Eph. 5:3). Mortify your members that are on the earth—fornication, uncleanness, sensuality, evil lust, and covetousness, which is idolatry” (Col. 3:5). Or Gani - also the Rhodope (Rhodope) or part of it and was located in Thrace. Nestor's Life of Theodosius according to the ed. in zap. acad., pp. 144. 145. Nestor's Life of Theodosius, pp. 154. 155. Collection. l. 1, 70–72.5, 140. 141. Nestor's Life of Theodosius, pp. 155. 156. Collection. l. 4, 72. The inscription on the stone: “in sheet 6576 index 6. Prince Gleb measured the sea on the ice, from Tmutorokan to Karchev, 14 thousand fathoms.” Butkov's research in known. R. archaeol. total 2, 273–292. Nestor's Life of Theodosius, page 168. Simon about the creation. Pecher. churches. Simon about creation Pecher. churches. Nestor's Life of Theodosius, pp. 168. 169. Nestor at the end of the life of Feodosiev. Simon about creation Pecher. churches; Chet-Minea March 23 and 24. Collection l. III, 277. VII, 4. Nikon, when he tonsured Theodosius in 1032, was at least 30 years old: this is according to the rule about the priesthood. Pereslav. years., p. III, m. 1851. In the railway. m. internal d., parts 22, 13 it is said that Nerekhta is mentioned for the first time in the life of St. Pachomius, but this is a mistake. RKP. Life of Ave. Pachomius. Extracted from it into Christ. Thurs. 1858 I, 413–428. See the life of a saint. Alexia Feb. 12 o'clock RKP. Saints: “Venerable Pachomius, abbot of the Trinity Monastery, also called Sypanov in the Nerekhotsk camp, Kostroma miracle worker, reposed in fol. 6892 (1384) March, 21 days.” East. Hier. 6, 238 consolidated. about mon., p. 162. m. 1842. In the calendar, the day of death is set at 21 o'clock, but according to his life he communed on the 21st day, and died a day after that. Extract from the life written around 1727, printed. in Moskvityanin 1852 No. 8. The very description of the life and miracles of the bl. Vasily, unskilfully composed, printed. to Irkut. Eparch. Ved. 1863 and 1864 Certificate from P. Filaret to Siberia dated February 11. 1622 ex. in 3 volumes collected. state gram. According to the Siberian Chronicle (northern arch., part 19, p. 112), Mangazeya was built in 1601 by the governor, Prince. Vasily Mikhailovich Masalsky and Vluk (Vukol) Pushkin; then 100 service people were sent to them from Tobolsk. According to the brief calculation of the Siberian governors, ex. in Tobolsk in 1792, Masalsky and Pushkin were governors in 1601 and 1602. In 1600 Easter was March. 23; in 1601 and 1602 it was in April; in 1592 Mar. 26. According to the RCP. Saints day of the death of St. Vasily is due on March 22. 1592, then 25 March. 1622. According to the time of Pushkin’s stay in Mangazeya, Vasily’s suffering death must be attributed to 1601 or 1602, and according to the indication of Easter time, it should fall on 1600. But if we assume that the theft occurred on Matins of one of the days of Holy Week, when the pious Vasily, of course, was in the church; then his painful death can be attributed to 1602, when Pushkin was in charge. This year of suffering is consistent with the testimony that the relics were discovered 50 years after his death, in 1652. New Mangazeya, in the 30th century. from Tikhon's Monastery, built in 1672. Spassky about Siberia during. total ist., book. 3, pp. 28. 29. Turukhansky Monastery in Moskvityanin 1852 No. 8, at the time. total ist., book. 3, p. 30. Ratshina information. about mon., p. 98.