Допринос Сергија В. Троицког проучавању Законоправила Светог Саве
Sergey V. Troitsky’s Contribution to the Study of Saint Sava’s Zakonopravilo

Summary/Abstract: Sergey V. Troitsky was a theologian, historian, and an excellent jurist. He spent a significant portion of his life studying Saint Sava’s Zakonopravilo. Since 1948, when he became an associate of the SANU, and until his death on 27th November 1972, Troitsky tirelessly studied this invaluable source of Serbian medieval civil and ecclesiastical law. He wrote many significant studies that became a basis for the future publishing of the phototypes of Saint Sava’s Zakonopravilo. Due to his scientific achievements, which are the results of his independent study of this fundamental medieval juridical collection as well as reactions to the ideas of contemporary eminent scientists (such as Mošin, Jagić, and Solovjov), the role and significance of Saint Sava’s Zakonopravilo in the life of the Serbian Church and State cannot even be comprehended without consulting his works. Troitsky did not only prove the authenticity of this unique Nomocanon, but he also improved our understanding of its influence on the life and organization of the Churches in Bulgaria, Romania, and Russia. This was one of Troitsky’s main arguments in proving that the translation of Zakonopravilo with interpretations did not exist in the Slavic language before Saint Sava. In other words, Troitsky claimed that Saint Sava enabled the Slavic Churches (and even states) to function independently, according to the laws and canons, with the best Byzantine interpretations collected in one place. He paid particular attention to the issue of printing the Krmčija that was, unlike Zakonopravilo, somewhat modified and adapted to the needs of the Russian Church.

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