Mikhail Fyodorowitsch Rajewski

Michael Theodorovič Rajevskij ( Slavic Leaves 1865)

Michail Fjodorowitsch Rajewski ( Russian Михаил Фёдорович Раевский ; born July 18, 1811 in Arsamas ; † May 2, 1884 in Vienna ) was the Russian Orthodox Archpriest and head of the Embassy Church in Vienna.

Life

St. Lazarus Cemetery Church at Vienna's Central Cemetery

Rajewski was the head of the Vienna embassy church from 1842 to 1884 and thus at the same time the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Vienna, which was considered the spiritual center of all Slavs in the territory of what was then Austria-Hungary .

He was one of the initiators of the Slavs Congress of 1867 in Russia , which has been held at large intervals in various metropolises in Eastern Europe since 1848 with the emergence of Pan-Slavism .

Works

Rajewski is known for his translations of divine service texts from Greek into German. a. the Euchologion of the Orthodox Church and the Canon magnus of Andrew of Crete .

Rajewski planned to have a large cathedral built in Vienna . After the official approval, he started collecting donations. But his death in May 1884 made the realization of his plan impossible. The 22,000 rubles he collected was only enough for the construction of the smaller cemetery church "Zum Heiligen Lazarus" on the Vienna Central Cemetery . This church was consecrated on April 26, 1895 and still exists today. The Cathedral of St. Nicholas , actually planned by Rajewski , was only built ten years after his death from 1893 to 1899 and was consecrated on April 4, 1899.

literature

Michael Theodorovič Rajevskij. Biographical sketch with portrait . In: Slavische Blätter , 1st year, Vienna 1865, pp. 663–668 in the Google book search
Hannes Leidinger , Verena Moritz : Russian Vienna. Encounters from four centuries , Verlag Böhlau, 2004, ISBN 3205772636 and ISBN 9783205772637

Web links

The story of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Vienna

Individual evidence

↑ Russian Chapel. In: Wiener Zeitung , May 10, 1895, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz

personal data
SURNAME	Rajewski, Michail Fjodorowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rajewskij, Michail; Раевский, Михаил Фёдорович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian Orthodox archpriest in Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH	July 18, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH	Arsamas
DATE OF DEATH	May 2, 1884
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Russian Chapel. In: Wiener Zeitung , May 10, 1895, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz