66. Прежде 31 января 1451 г. Его же послание киевскому князю Александру Владимировичу о поставлении своем в сан митрополита, с убеждением охранять в Литве православие и с просьбой содействовать воссоединению киевской митрополии с московской

From the collection of Count A.S. Uvarov 512 (formerly Tsarskogo No. 366), l. 213–219; was published in the first volume of Historical Acts under No. 47, according to the list found in the synodal collection No. 562, fol. 151–155. Variants of this edition are marked with the letter A. The time of writing is determined in comparison with the next act below - No. 67. Messenger from Metropolitan Jonah to Prince Alexander Volodimerovich, to Kiev 2624 Blessing of Jonah, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus', about the Holy Spirit to the beloved son of our humility, the noble and faithful Prince Alexander Volodimerovich. We pray, son, our humility to the philanthropic God and His Most Pure Mother of God, for the long-term health of your nobility 2625, for may your nobility be spiritually saving and healthy for many years 2626 and with the hedgehog about the Holy Spirit, the beloved daughter of our humility, your noble and noble princess Anastasia, and with your son the noble noble prince Semyon, and with your children, with our 2627 spiritual children. Vesta, son, knows your nobility, a hedgehog from many years, after the repose of our ever-memorable father and your father, and your godfather, holy Metropolitan Photius of Kyiv and All Rus', God's great holy catholic and apostolic church, the most holy metropolis of Kiev 2628 and all Rus', is widowed; and in that, son, you yourself know, and before your eyes, how much confusion has been repaired both in the rulers, and in our Orthodox Christianity, disorder, and all sorts of Christian destruction and bloodshed. And then, son, you yourself weigh everything, from what it was fixed: what is it 2629 for our Christian sins, for the devil's slander, and for God's allowance for our sins, in the Royal City the herd in the kings and in the patriarchate, division and reflection, or, more precisely, impoverishment and rape from the Turks and Latins to that Royal City and to the powers the reign of the Tsargrad Tsar and the entire Tsargrad 2630 residence. And in that great Godly and most holy cathedral and apostolic church of Constantinograd, from the king and from the patriarch, and on the royal chamber, 2631 papa’s commemoration began to be written 2632, even from many previous 2633 ancient times, according to the seven most holy ecumenical councils, then this papa’s commemoration was deposited in that holy and great God's conciliar and apostolic and universal Church of Constantinograd and in the other three patriarchs, the holy former Orthodox Christian kings, the most holy all four patriarchs and all the saints, and other reverend spiritual men, according to Latin 2634, apostasy from our Orthodox Christianity and separation from the faith with us. And you yourself, son, weigh that by God’s mercy and grace, oprichnina 2635 cathedral churches of St. Sophia and the Tsar’s palace, in Constantinople, not in monasteries, not in a single church of God, in all of Constantinople, and in the whole Holy Mountain, my father’s name is not mentioned anywhere, but to keep everything by the grace of God that good old days, hedgehog by God’s command of 2636 the holy Apostles and from the God-bearing Fathers, according to the sacred rules and according to all divine scripture, handed down to us; and most of all, son, you hear it from 2637 people coming to you from there, because, son, that country is closer to you from us. And you yourself, son, weigh, what about those for the sake of the great church disorders 2638, and until now, in the most holy Russian metropolitanate there was no 2639 metropolitan: there was no one to send to (the tsar is not like that, and neither is the patriarch, in other words, approaching the Latins 2640, and not like our Orthodox Christianity betrayed from the beginning). And Sidorovo 2641, his son’s coming, both the first and the other, and his current work, his life, weighed down 2642 himself. God's pack, son, by the grace and sanctification of the Holy Spirit, our lord and son of our humility, noble, faithful, pious, Christ-loving Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich, fighting according to God's Church, and according to the law and throughout Orthodox Christianity 2643, and according to ancient splendor, kindled by the warmth of his heart and jealous of his saints ancestors, the pious saint, the first Orthodox and equal to the holy Apostles, the great Tsar Constantine and the great ruler of the entire Russian land, the holy and equal to the saints 2644 Apostles, the great 2645 Prince Vladimir, looking at the divine and sacred holy Apostles and God-bearing Fathers, the holy rules and all the divine holy scriptures, and with all the saints of their land, with God-loving bishops and with reverend archimandrites and with the most honest abbots, and with many spiritual men with prudent 2646, and with all the priesthood, talking and uniting happily at many times, and with you, Orthodox princes, sending to all places, and searching our Russian land for antiquity, according to holy rules and according to reasoning hierarchical and priestly, and in the old days, having searched for the one who had previously been appointed metropolitan in Rus', not in Moscow, nor in Vladimir, but 2647 in Kyiv: more, son, and you yourself are good, even in those days there was a dominion from that Orthodox autocrat of the entire Russian land, Vladimir, to Kyiv; and the appointment of a metropolitan to Kyiv on Russian soil, not only like the current one for the sake of ecclesiastical disorder in Constantinople, but only for the sake of unsatisfaction in the reigns of the Russian rulers with the Constantinople kings. Now, the son, favored by God according to his ineffable destinies, and the Holy Spirit acting, and according to the divine and sacred rules of liberation, and according to the reasoning of the saint, and according to the will of the great ruler, Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich, and as before, to our humility, we are blessed in Constantinople, when we marched to Constantinople, and by the will of God Then we had little success, but Isidore had already been installed as metropolitan, and we regretted that we did not have time to do so. And releasing Sidor to Rus', and us with him, and the holy patriarch 2648 and the divine and sacred ecumenical council about him, Isidore thus commanded: if Isidore, either by God's will, dies, or whatever happens to him, then I, a sinner, am already 2649 ready to be metropolitan for him in Rus'. And now those 2650 God's arches have been repaired as follows: not because of our unworthiness, but 2651 according to God's ineffable destinies, they have placed our humility on the most holy Russian metropolis as a metropolitan. And how God put it on the heart of the great ruler, the noble, glorious, exalted, from the Almighty God, the exalted Polish king and Grand Duke of Lithuania Casimir, the autocrat of the great two 2652 rulers, wrote before us, before his pilgrims, his sheet, with his great salary, but he wants God’s church to do church justifications everything in the old way, but he wants me as his pilgrim favor, but he wants to send his responsibility to us, as from his dominion from the Lyadsky powers in his own powers, as it will be in the Lithuanian land, and then we should be with him, as he orders us to be with him. And you, my son 2653, I know and know about everything, from many I hear about you about a great man, as if you were an Orthodox Christian 2654 and the Church of God, a son of God, and a fighter in God’s Church and according to the law, and an intercessor for all Orthodox Christianity, and for that power of the Lithuanian land and for all Christians here, praise and help; as God has taught you in all sorrowful and joyful things 2655, at all times you are the leader of all good things: and for this I thank and bless you, my son, and I ask that you do the same, and if you had done the same in the future; And I have hope, my son, in God’s love for mankind, so that in this temporary prosperity God will glorify your nobility especially in this regard 2656, and even more so in the future in eternal nobility, and you will receive a hundredfold reward from God throughout the ages. I also bless you, my son, about this, and I will take care of you 2657 so that God’s church will receive its ancient splendor and may the most holy metropolis of Kiev and all Rus' unite, as before, into one, and our work of humility, by God’s grace and your nobility’s care and haste and perseverance, may it be fulfilled. 2658 And the grace of God and mercy and intercession of our Lady Theotokos, and our humility, blessing and prayer be with your nobility and with all your blessed house and with all your people. Written in Moscow... In the synodal The list is entitled: Message from the Metropolitan to Prince Alexander Volodimerovich in Kiev, who has been appointed to the metropolitanate in Moscow, and not in Kiev. the most holy metropolises of Kiev A. In the original for all Constantinople; corrected by A. In the original there is obedience; corrected according to A. In authentic Pilatian; corrected according to A. In the original there are disturbances. In the original approaching. In the original because; corrected according to A. In the original according to all Orthodox Christianity; corrected according to A. In the original vm. to the equal saints it is written: equal courage. The words: all Russian lands to the ruler... the great are not in A. In the original neither; corrected by A. In the original, the holy patriarchs. In authentic what comes next is superfluous. In the original for you; corrected by A. Not in the original; corrected by A. In your original; corrected according to A. In the original, the former Orthodox Christians; corrected by A. In the original of things; corrected by A. In the original, glorify your God, nobility. corrected by A. yes imashi there is no care about that in A. In the original, accomplishment; corrected according to A. You might be interested in: