Ipatievsky Vestnik № 2 (18), 2022

This article presents a translation of the chapter of the book «Introduction to Biblical Prophecy». The author of the book, Jose Luis Sicre (born 1940 in Cadiz, Spain) – is a Spanish biblical scholar, professor emeritus at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and the Faculty of Theology at the University of Granada, an author of numerous scientific articles and books devoted to biblical studies.

This article presents a student’s essay of the future professor Archpriest F. A. Golubinsky, which he wrote at Kostroma Theological Seminary in 1813 at the age of 15. In this essay, the future prot. Theodore Golubinsky proves the thesis that the main purpose of the physical world is in the spiritual world (the author calls it moral), which in its turn has all meaning in God. Keywords: F. A. Golubinsky, Kostroma theological seminary, Moscow theological academy, theology, student essay.

This article presents a student’s essay in verse of the future professor Archpriest F. A. Golubinsky, which he wrote at Kostroma Theological Seminary in 1813 at the age of 15. The author uses a dramatic structure, prefixing the poetic composition with an explanation of the names between which the dialogue is conducted. The essence of the dialogue is reflections on the meaning of life and the purpose of a person endowed with talents.

This article, as well as the previously published collection of materials on the 19th century, presents in chronological order the texts from various sources collected by the author for writing a book about Theodorovskaya Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos. All dates in the text are given according to the old style, abbreviations are disclosed without additional reservations or (in case of their possible ambiguity) by means of square brackets, the author's explanations are highlighted in square brackets. Quoting is done primarily in accordance with modern spelling and punctuation standards.

The article briefly describes the history of Kostroma Theological Seminary libraries: fundamental and students. One can find a published list of book donors and librarians who served in the seminary libraries in the XVIII – early XX centuries.

This article is devoted to the description of the history, architecture and wall painting of the Church of the Nativity of Christ in the village of Knyazhevo, Krasnoselsky district, Kostroma region. The temple is a standard building of its time, but it is unique in that it has preserved almost in its original form both the exterior and interior decoration of the beginning of the XIX century.

The article discusses the history of the origin of such a specific insignia for doctors of theology who are in the holy rank of presbyter or bishop as a pectoral doctoral cross. Originating at the beginning of the 19th century as a rather rare insignia and liturgical and hierarchical award, uniform in style of execution, the pectoral cross of a doctor of theology in its historical development has become not only a symbol of the highest academic degree that exists in the Russian Orthodox Church to date, but has also acquired various types, depending on the place of defense of the dissertation and production, thus influencing church art on church faleristics concerning insignia for priests and bishops who have a doctoral degree and are personnel of the highest scientific and theological qualifications.

Sergey Nikolaevich Durylin (1886–1954) went through life from a student at the barricades in 1905 to a major scholar of philology of the Stalin era. In 1920, he took orders and served in Moscow under the command of the righteous elder Alexy Mechev. He survived arrests and imprisonment. In the Vladimir prison, together with the confessor Bishop Athanasius Kovrovsky, he participated in the preparation of the service to All the saints who shone in the Russian land. At the request of A. V. Lunacharsky, who knew him as a major scientist, he was released on condition not to serve in the Church. He did not serve in the Church, but he served at home, and for the outside world he was only a doctor of philology, a specialist in N. V. Gogol, N. A. Ostrovsky, M. Y. Lermontov, the history of theater and art. His legacy, published after the fall of Soviet power, contains major works about F. M. Dostoevsky, M. V. Nesterov, and remarkable artistic prose. The published memoirs characterize his last years and give an idea of the life of the Orthodox creative intelligentsia in the 40–50s of the twentieth century.