Title of the article:

INVENTION AND DOUBLE TRANSLATION OF THE RELICS IN THE LIFE OF MOSCOW METROPOLITAN ALEXIS OF THE 17^TH СENTURY

Author(s):

Alexander A. Medvedev

Information about the author/authors

Alexander A. Medvedev — PhD in Philology, Senior Lecturer, Department of Russian Classical Literature, Institute of Philology, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Malaya Pirogovskaya St., 1, bld. 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5319-8933. E-mail: medalex88@gmail.com

Section

Philological sciences

Year

2020

Volume

Vol. 58

Pages

pp. 165-170

Received

July 23, 2019

Date of publication

December 28, 2020

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2020-58-165-170

Index UDK

821.161.1.0

Index BBK

83.3(2Рос=Рус)4

Abstract

We find the story of the invention and double translation of the relics of Moscow Metropolitan Alexis included in the 17^th century “The Lay of the Life in the Saints of our Father Alexis, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia, Wonderworker”, located in the Synodal Collection No. 596 of the State Historical Museum. Euthymius of Chudovsky, compiler of the fifth edition of the life, the cellarer of the Chudovsky monastery uses, when creating a new edition of the life of St. Alexis, all sources available to him: the life written by Pachomius Logothetes, literary monuments about Alexis as part of the Nikon Chronicle and the Book of Degrees of the royal genealogy, telling about the invention and translating of the relics, historical information taken from the Nikon Chronicle and the Lviv Chronicle. In his work, Euthymius pays special attention to the history of creation and arrangement of the Chudov Monastery, its location and decoration, and especially to the repeated translation of relics of the saint, witnessed by the scribe. The scene of the invention and the story of the translation of the relics to the church of the Archangel Michael erected by the Metropolitan in the fifth edition of the life of the Moscow wonderworker represent fully finished fragments with their own original plot and system of characters, since by the time the monument was created, Euthymius possessed a fairly large amount of biographical and historical material from various early sources that had come to him.

Keywords

Metropolitan Alexius, the hagiography of the Metropolitan of the 17^th century, the acquisition and double translation of relics, the Chudov Monastery, Pachomius the Logothete, Euthymius, Chudovsky, chronicles.

References

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