MARSHAL A. M. VASILEVSKY: DEDICATION TO THE SURPLICE (NEW ARCHIVAL DOCUMENT FOR THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE MILITARY COMMANDER)

Georgy Vladimirovich Andrianov

Kostroma Theological Seminary, Kostroma, Russia

Email: rector44@mail.ru

ORCID: 0000-0001-7534-6776

Issue: № 1 (21), 2023

Pages: 160

Annotation

The article publishes for the first time an archival document (with comments) related to the period of study of Marshal of the Soviet Union A. M. Vasilevsky at the Kostroma Theological Seminary. The discovered document indicates that the famous military commander was a cleric (clergyman) of the Orthodox Church. He was ordained to the ecclesiastical degree of reader in the Epiphany Cathedral of the Kostroma Kremlin. This article is the material for the second edition of Marshal A. M. Vasilevsky: from Seminarian to Marshal.

Keywords

Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky, Kostroma Theological Seminary, Kostroma Kremlin, initiation into the surplice, consecration, reader, psalmist

For citation

Andrianov G. V., priest. Marshal A. M. Vasilevsky: dedication to the surplice (new archival document for the biography of the military commander)// Ipatievsky vestnik. 2023. № 1. Р. 160–166 (In Russian). https://doi.org/10.24412/2309–5164–2023–1–160–166