88. В конце 1460 или в начале 1461 г. Его же грамота, адресованная: I) смоленскому епископу Мисаилу и II) черниговскому епископу Евфимию – о непризнании митрополитом ученика Исидорова, Григория

The first list of letters is from the synodal collection No. 562, l. 80 vol.–85: was published in the first volume of Historical Acts under No. 62; the second is from the collection of Count A.S. Uvarov No. 512 (formerly Tsarskogo No. 366), l. 237 vol.–243: published there under No. 273. I. Message to the Lithuanian rulers about the arrival of Metropolitan Gregory Blessing of Jonah, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus', in the Holy Spirit to the son and colleague of our humility, Bishop Misail of Smolensk. It is known to you, my son, that I sent to Kiev the most honorable and great monastery of the life-giving Trinity of the Segiev monastery of the spiritual abbot, about the Holy Spirit of my son abbot Vasian, to the Holy Spirit of the daughter of our humility, princess Alexandrov Volodimerovich Nastasya and to their children, [to Prince Semyon Alexandrovich and his brother to Prince Mikhail Alexandrovich, and to Prince Yuri Semenovich Golshansky] 2814, about strengthening them and all of our great Orthodoxy, in which we were born and received holy baptism in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, so that from that piety and Orthodoxy would not be diminished from them, nor would anything be applied from that teaching of the Roman Church, from that wolf, and not the shepherd, disciple and all around like-minded person of Isidore, a former apostate from Orthodoxy, Gregory, who now calls himself the Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus', in opposition to our Orthodoxy, in opposition to the great abomination of our holy cathedral Apostolic Church of Greece, from not receiving holy baptism. And those, son, about the Holy Spirit, our children refused to us, having come to know God, with the same most honorable great monastery, the honorable abbot Basian, the speech is as follows: “we deeds of our Orthodoxy look at everything to the Lord God and to His Most Pure Mother of God, and to our master, in piety, the flourishing Orthodox Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich, and we hold our master our father as our father and teacher. Metropolitan Jonah." Their answer to us is this. And remember, son, even at the beginning of Isidore’s coming to us as a metropolis, he decided from the beginning from the Reigning City, and at the same time we secretly had all the wickedness in our hearts against our great Orthodoxy, so that we could bring our holy Catholic Apostolic Church to the Greek Church to the Roman Church, and submit all our great Orthodoxy to the Roman law and the teaching of everything of the Roman Church (and leading to no one else then) 2815 ; and then having visited the metropolis for a short time, he was even more careful to go to Rome, and decided to go to the eighth council. My lord and son, the great prince Vasily Vasilyevich, rebuked him so much that he would not go, and could not appease him: and he went, but promised with an oath that he would not bring anything new, in opposition to our Orthodoxy. Then, from then on, he came to us and brought many new and alien things to our great Orthodoxy; He brought to us from the Pope a scripture with his seals, and with the royal mark, in which Latin established two principles about the Holy Spirit in their churches, unleavened bread wisely, as if it is true, rekosha writing, in unleavened and leavened bread the body of Christ is worthy of being created; also create a remembrance of Papa in our holy church, to this end, to subjugate and enslave us even under the excommunicated, many for the sake of heresies, the Holy Fathers of the Roman Church, under the Pope of Rome (and you, my son, are good, and your brothers are all bishops, as for many years the church and the Pope of Rome and the rest have not had intercourse or communion with the four patriarchs there). Over all of these, make him the father and teacher of all our Christianity and all the churches, to shepherd them and to rule and care for all the churches. My lord son, the pious great prince, having convened his entire great power of apxbishops and bishops, and the most honorable archimandrites and abbots, and all the great priesthood of God, and having looked into the divine and sacred rules and having sought out the holy God-bearing Fathers' scripture, he understood all the evil Isidore's coming to us, and to everything that Sidor brought, not he heard and did not accept, Sidor, recognizing his deviation from Orthodoxy and the evil and unclean 2816 of his coming, but fled overnight. And after him, the great prince heard and experienced well the Tsar of Constantinople and the cathedral about him, the confusion that the hedgehog swung to the Roman church, and others, instructed and strengthened by God, without uniting with them, and the excitement between them was great, as the holy churches of God were closed for many days and without singing the stash: and our great Orthodox sovereign, great Prince Vasily Vasilyevich, and his son the pious Great Prince Ivan Vasilyevich, could not see that for so long the Church of God has been widowed, and Orthodox Christianity without a shepherd, [without a great saint, having convened the archbishops] 2817 and bishops and all the great priesthood of God, all of their great Russian power, and it is known about this who has found Holy Father of the Scriptures, and according to the divine sacred rules they installed me as the metropolis of the entire Russian land to Orthodox Christianity. Now, as we hear, a disciple and like-minded person of that apostate, Isidorov, Gregory, has come here to you in the Lithuanian dominion from the Roman Church, and calls himself Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus', with papal sheets, and from the original apostate, the patriarchal Grigoriev's letters and with the Sidorovs, and in them Sidor is written as legatos and cardinal, and they write to me as an apostate, and themselves being evil apostates from Orthodoxy: and I, by the grace of God, was appointed to the metropolis by council and according to divine sacred rules; and, my son, be kind to the divine and sacred rules. And now from the king to the Grand Duke about that apostate Gregory, Yakub the clerk and Ivashenets came as an embassy so that the Grand Duke would accept him and hold himself as a metropolitan father. Both my lord and my son, Great Prince Vasily Vasilyevich, and his son, Great Prince Ivan Vasilyevich, do not want not only to see him, but also to hear him, according to divine and sacred rules; also, our sons and fellow servants, all the archbishops and bishops, and all the great priesthood, and all of our Orthodoxy do not want to hear him: for the first time, son, how our Orthodoxy became, and from Rome and from Latin the Metropolitan did not come to us. And for this reason, son, I am now writing to you, and to your brothers, I am writing to all who have received ordination from us, ordained ordination, [so that] their confession and promise will be remembered; and I bless you, about the Holy Spirit of all my children, and I pray with great prayer, guarding and caring for your only-begotten immortal souls, so that you do not naturally associate with that wolf, being not a shepherd, and do not listen to his false teaching, and the flock of Christ entrusted to you from God, Orthodox Christians, as permissible, abstain from it, punishing you from the divine scriptures. And to whom, sons, you 2818 from whom will there be such languor and need for him, and he 2819, according to his promise to us, without accepting him who came from the Roman Church and without joining him, would go and be to me; and whoever does not go to us, having forgotten his confession before God and the promise of his appointment, although he will communicate everything to the apostate Gregory, and such, according to his confession and promise, will put on himself a great and inexorable church burden from God and reward on the day of the terrible and terrible inexorable great judgment of God. And you, son, would have had great insight into that great matter. And what, son, according to your holy duty, do you fight and stand for Orthodoxy, and I believe in Christ my Master, that you will not be far from his heavenly and endless kingdom, which I pray for your love of God to receive in endless centuries. II. A letter went to the rulers in Lithuania from Metropolitan Jonah, about Metropolitan Gregory, who left Rome for the metropolis Blessing of Jonah, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus', about the Holy Spirit to the son and colleague of our humility, Euthymius, Bishop of Chernigov and Dobryansk. It is known to you, my son, that I sent to Kyiv the most honorable great monastery of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity of Sergius Monastery of the spiritual rector, about the Holy Spirit of my son, Abbot Vasian, to about the Holy Spirit the daughter of our humility, Prince Oleksadrov Volodimerovich Princess Anastasia, and to their children, to Prince Semyon Alexandrovich and to his brother Prince Mikhail Alexandrovich, and to Prince Yuri Semenovich Golshansky, about strengthening them and all our great Orthodoxy, in which we were born and received holy baptism, in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, so that from that piety [and] Orthodoxy would not be diminished from them, nor applied anything from the teachings of the Roman Church, from that wolf, and not the shepherd, disciple and, in all respects, like-minded person Isidore, a former apostate from our Orthodoxy, Gregory, who now calls himself Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus', against resistance to our Orthodoxy and against the great abomination of our holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of Greece, from which holy baptism was received. And those, son, our children refused us, having come to know God, with the same honest, most honorable great abbot Vasian, the speech is as follows: “we, about our Orthodoxy, look at everything to God and to His Most Pure Mother of God, and to our master, in piety, the flourishing Orthodox Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich, and we hold ourselves as our father and teacher to our master Jonah, Metropolitan Kyiv and all Rus'." Their answer to us is this. And remember, son, even at the beginning Isidore’s coming to us, having been ordered from the beginning from the Reigning City, and then having a hidden sacrament in our hearts for our great Orthodoxy, to bring our holy cathedral apostolic church of the Greek to the Roman church and our great Orthodoxy to give taxes to the Roman laws and teachings about everything to the Roman church (and I didn’t know that to anyone then); and then having spent a little time in the metropolis, he began to strive to go to Rome, and decided to go to the eighth council. Mister Pak, my son, Great Prince Vasily Vasilyevich rebuked him so much that he would not go, and could not appease him: and he went, but promised with an oath that he would not bring anything new to resist our Orthodoxy. Then from then on he came to us, and brought a lot of new and foreign things to our great Orthodoxy: he brought to us from the Pope of Rome writings with his seal and with his royal stamp, in which he established two principles of Latin in his churches 2820 about the Holy Spirit, and unleavened wisdom 2821, as it truly is 2822, rekosha writing, in unleavened and leavened bread the body of Christ is worthy to be created; Also create a memorial for Papa in our holy church; to this end, give us over and enslave us under the excommunicated, many for the sake of heresies, the Holy Fathers of the Roman Church and the Pope of Rome (and you, my son, are good and your brothers are all bishops, as for many years and have not had 2823 intercourse or communion with the Roman Church and the Pope of Rome and others, under it is Latin, with the four most holy patriarchs). It is necessary for all of these to make him the father and teacher of all our Christianity and the head of all, to shepherd and rule and care for all the churches. Mr. Pak, my son, the pious and Christ-loving Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich convened his entire great power of archbishops and bishops, the most honorable archimandrites, abbots and all the great priesthood of God; and having looked into the divine and sacred rules, having sought out the holy God-bearing Fathers of the Scriptures, and having understood and recognized all the evil Isidore coming to us, and everything that Sidor brought, he did not heed and did not accept. Sidor, realizing his departure from Orthodoxy and his evil and unclean coming, fled overnight. And after him the great prince, having heard and experienced well the Tsar of Constantinople and the cathedral of confusion about him, that swung 2824 to the Roman church, and others, instructed and strengthened by God, without uniting with them, and the excitement between them was great, as the holy churches of God were closed for many days and without a petition: and our great ruler, the Orthodox Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich, and his son the pious Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich, could not see that for so long the Church of God has been widowed, and Orthodox Christianity is 2825 without a shepherd, without a great saint, having convened the archbishops and bishops and all the great priesthood of God throughout their great Russian power, it is known about everything, having found the Holy Fathers scriptures, and according to the divine and sacred rules, placed me in the metropolis of the entire Russian land to Orthodox Christianity. Now, we hear, a disciple and like-minded person of that apostate, Isidorov, Gregory (and calls himself Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus'), came here to you in the Lithuanian rulership from the Roman Church from the Roman Church, with papal sheets, and from the original apostate with the patriarchal Grigoriev’s letters and with the Sidorovs, and Sidor is written in them as legatos, cardinal, and They write to me as a renegade, and they themselves are evil apostates from morality: and I, by the grace of God, was appointed to the metropolis by council, according to divine and sacred rules; and, my son, be kind to the divine and sacred rules. Now the king's son, the king's son, received an embassy from the king to the Grand Duke about that apostate about Gregory, the royal clerk Yakub and Ivashenets, so that the Grand Duke would accept him and behave as a father and a pilgrim, a metropolitan; and my lord, my son, the Great Prince Vasily Vasilyevich, and his son, the Great Prince Ivan Vasilyevich, do not want him, according to the divine and sacred rules, not only to see him, but also to hear him; also, our sons and fellow servants, all the archbishops and bishops, all the great priesthood of God and all of our Orthodoxy do not want to hear him: for the first time, son, and how our Orthodoxy became, and from Rome and from Latin the Metropolitan did not come to us. And you, my son, also remembering before God your confession and promise to us in your appointment, would not associate in anything with that wolf and apostate, and not the shepherd, and would not listen to his false teaching, and the flock of Christ, Orthodox Christianity, handed over to you from God, would abstain from that, as strong as the power is, punishing them from the divine scriptures, as God will admonish you, my son. And will you, my son, in accordance with your holy duty, stand and fight for Orthodoxy all-soul, I believe in Christ my Master, so that you will not be far from the heavenly and endless kingdom, which I pray your love for God will receive in endless centuries. And from whom, son, will you know what the need is, and you, according to your confession and promise to us, would not accept that one who came from the Roman Church, nor anyone else appointed from Latin, and would not join them in anything and went from there and was to me; but you will not come to me, forgetting your confession to us before God and your promise, in your ordination to the priesthood, but even if you accept and share everything with the apostate Gregory who came, or someone else appointed by the Latins: and you yourself will put on yourself the terrible and inexorable great burden of the church on the day of the terrible and terrible inexorable great judgment of God. Written in Moscow, month... indicta 9. In the original the names of the princes are omitted; they are taken from the following message to Bishop Euthymius of Chernigov. In the original the leading; corrected according to the following letter. 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