Extensive edition of “The Tale of the Appearance and Miracles of the Theodore Icon of the Mother of God”: TEXT AND COMMENTARY

Kashin Dmitry V.

Metropolitan of Kostroma and Nerekhta Ferapont

Kostroma theological seminary, Kostroma, Russia

Email: ferapontk@ya.ru

ORCID: 0000-0003-2895-9523

Issue: № 4 (24), 2023

Pages: 35

DOI: 10.24412/2309-5164-2023-4-35-82

Annotation

The article provides information about the chronologically second (after the so-called Minain or Milyutinskaya), but in terms of volume the most extensive and meaning-ful edition of the famous literary monument of the 17th century — “Tales of the Appearance and Miracles of the Theodore Icon of the Mother of God.” The time of creation of the edi-tion, its presumed author (archpriest of the Assumption Cathedral of the Kostroma Kremlin Theodore), differences from the first edition, and historical inaccuracies in the text are indi-cated. The publications of the editorial text according to its various lists, carried out by I.V., are listed. Bazhenov (1909), O.N. Radeeva (2011), A.V. Fedorov (2012). The appendix pub-lishes the text of an extensive edition of “The Tales...” based on a list that has not previously attracted the attention of researchers, but is of particular interest, now stored in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts.

Keywords

Russian Orthodox Church, Kostroma Kremlin, Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God, legend, list, appearance of the icon, Prince Vasily Yaroslavich

For citation

Ferapont (Kashin), metropolitan of Kostroma and Nerekhta. Extensive edition of “The Tale of the Appearance and Miracles of the Theodore Icon of the Mother of God”: text and commentary // Ipatievsky vestnik. 2023. №. 4. Р. 35–82 (In Russian). https:// doi.org/10.24412/2309-5164-2023-4-35-82