EPIGRAPHIC "LEGACY" OF THE ABBOT KOSTROMA IPATIEV MONASTERY ARCHIMANDRITE THEODOSIUS III († 1692)

Alexander Grigorievich Avdeev

Dmitriy Pozharsky University, Moscow, Russia

Email: avdey57@mail.ru

ORCID: 0000-0001-7253-9126

Issue: № 1 (21), 2023

Pages: 134

Annotation

The life path of the vast majority of the abbots of Russian monasteries of the 16th–17th centuries, and even earlier, is unknown due to the lack of sources. However, as the experience of working on the compilation of the Corpus Inscriptionum Rossicarum (CIR) shows, a solid basis for the reconstruction of the abbot's life path and his family and spiritual ties is provided by a comprehensive analysis of sources that attract limited attention of researchers — epigraphic monuments and synodics writings, as well as data from other sources. This paper examines the epigraphic monuments associated with the temple-b uilding activities of archimandrite Theodosius, who was the abbot of Trinity Ipatiev Monastery monastery in 1684–1692, which are the starting point in restoring his origin, individual facts of biography, the circle of kinship and communication. Based on the analysis of these sources, it is concluded that Archimandrite Theodosius came from the owner peasants of the village Alferyevo (Suzdal uezd), took the veil in the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery and residing in several Moscow monasteries. At the end of his life, being the archimandrite of the Trinity Ipatiev Monastery, Theodosius built a stone Annunciation church in his native village with his cell money.

Keywords

Epigraphy of Moscow Russia, Corpus Inscriptionum Rossicarum, synodics, hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church of the second half of the 17th century, Archimandrite of the Trinity Ipatiev Monastery Theodosius III, Trinity Ipatiev Monastery, the Church of the Annunciation in the village of Alferevo (Suzdal uezd), Russian temple building of the end of the 17th century, orthodox piety, social elevators in Moscow Russia

For citation

Avdeev A. G. Epigraphic "legacy" of the abbot Kostroma Ipatiev monastery archimandrite Theodosius III († 1692) // Ipatievsky vestnik. 2023. № . 1. Р. 134–159 (In Russian). https:// doi.org/10.24412/2309–5164–2023–1–134–159