CONSTRUCTION INSCRIPTION OF 1586 FROM THE TRINITY IPATIEV MONASTERY AND THE ENSEMBLE OF THE HOLY GATE AT THE END OF THE 16TH CENTURY

Alexander Grigorievich Avdeev

St.-Tikhons Orthodox University, Dmitriy Pozharsky University, Moscow, Russia

Email: avdey57@mail.ru

Issue: № 3 (19), 2022

Pages: 62

Annotation

This paper examines an inscription from the Trinity Ipatiev Monastery (Kostroma), which reports the beginning of construction of the monastery walls in 1586 at the expense of Dmitry Ivanovich and Boris Fedorovich Godunov. On the basis of written, pictorial, archaeological and epigraphic sources the author concludes the existence of a second, lost, inscription on the completion of construction and consecration of a double-a ltar church in the name of Saints Demetrius of Thessaloniki, Irene, Agathia and Hyonia and hypothesizes the date of this event, June 8, 1596.

Keywords

Epigraphy of Moscow Russia, Kostroma, Trinity Ipatiev Monastery, 16th century Russian architecture of 16th century, Godunovy, Orthodox ktitors

For citation

Avdeev A. G. Construction inscription of 1586 from the Trinity Ipatiev Monastery and the ensemble of the Holy Gate at the end of the 16th century // Ipatievsky vestnik. 2022. № . 3. Р. 62–88 (In Russian). https:// doi.org/10.24412/2309–5164–2022–3 –62–88