Feodosiya Prokofievna Morozova

Detail from the painting Bojarynja Morosowa (“Die Bojarin Morosowa”) by Vasily Surikow .

Feodosiya Prokofievna Morozova ( Russian Феодосия Прокофьевна Морозова ., Scientific transliteration Feodosija Prokof'evna Morozova * 1632 in Moscow , † November 2 ^{. Jul} / 12. November 1675 ^greg. In Borovsk ) was a Russian Bojarin and supporter Awwakums . She was imprisoned with her sister, Princess Urussowa ( Урусова ), from 1674 in the Pafnuti monastery in Borovsk Ostrog , where both starved to death. She is venerated as a martyr by some Old Believers .

Boyarynja Morozova

A painting by Vasily Surikov in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow shows her removal after her arrest in 1671. Her unbroken spirit is symbolized by the crucifixion with two - d. H. not with three - fingers in the style of the Old Believers . The cross with two fingers had been abolished as part of Nikon's church reforms .

literature

Wassili Peskow: The forgotten of the taiga: the incredible story of a Siberian family beyond civilization . Goldmann, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-442-12637-1 .
Margaret Ziolkowski: Tale of Boiarynia Morozova: A Seventeenth-Century Religious Life . Lexington Books (December 2000); ISBN 0739101773

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personal data
SURNAME	Morosowa, Feodosia Prokofievna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Морозова, Феодосия Прокофьевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Boyarin and supporter of Avakums
DATE OF BIRTH	1632
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow
DATE OF DEATH	November 12, 1675
Place of death	Borovsk