New Years Eve (Protopope)
Protopope Silvester ( Russian Protopop Silwestr , протопоп Сильвестр ; scientific transliteration Protopop Sil'vestr ; * late 15th century; † around 1565) was a Russian Orthodox clergyman and author. He was the confessor and counselor of Ivan the Terrible .
Life
New Year's Eve was very effective in the political, religious and literary fields. He began his career in Novgorod and later was a priest of the Blagoveshchensky Cathedral , the court church in the Kremlin in Moscow , where he came into contact with the Metropolitan Makari .
Together with Chamberlain Alexei Adashev , he was the head of the Elected Council . However, he was later exiled to the Solovetsk Monastery and then to the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery .
Tsar Book
In Tsar book ( Zarstwennaja kniga ), the official chronicle, it means to Stählin about him:
“It was as if he could do it all, and everything obeyed him, and no one dared to contradict him on anything, because of the tsarist favor. He commanded the metropolitan, the archbishops, the archimandrites, igumens, monks and priests, boyars and prika people, administered every matter, ecclesiastical and tsaric, and no one dared to say or do anything not according to his direction; and he ruled everything, both domains of domination: the spiritual and the tsar, like a tsar and high priest, only he did not have the name and seat, but that of a priest; but he was only highly revered by everyone and ruled everything with his councilors. "
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His edition of the house book Domostroi ( Домострой , Domostroj ) describes the rules of social, ecclesiastical, political and domestic coexistence.
literature
- Karl Stählin : Ivan the Terrible's Correspondence with Prince Kurbsky (1564 - 1579) . Leipzig: Historia-Verlag Paul Schraepler, 1921 (Third issue in the series: Sources and essays on Russian history . Introduced and translated from Old Russian with the assistance of Karl Weyer.)
See also
- Domostroi
- Alexei Fyodorowitsch Adaschew
- Macarius , Metropolitan of Moscow
- Chosen Council
Web links
- N. Pushkarewa: “ Silwestr ” in the encyclopedia “ Krugosvet (en) ” (Russian)
- Domostroi in the New Year's version (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Stählin, p. 148.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | New Year's Eve |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sil'vestr, Protopop; протопоп Сильвестр (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian Orthodox clergyman, counselor to Ivan the Terrible |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1565 |