Сибирский митрополит Игнатий (Римский-Корсаков) и его отношение к грекам
Metropolitan Ignatius (Rimsky-Korsakov) from Siberia and his attitude to the Greeks

Summary/Abstract: Siberian metropolitan Ignatius (Rimsky-Korsakov) active took part in the church’s life in the last third of the XVII century and was one of the ideologists of the Moscow kingdom. His attitude to the Greeks, Greek Orthodoxy, language and culture is well discovered on an analysis of his published and unpublished writings and other works. Ignatius can be called as a philhellenist. In his works he referred to the authority of the Orthodox East and apparently he knew the Greek language. His respectful attitude to the Greeks was not simply the delight of their faith. He was also a strong desire to free them from the Ottoman rule. His views of the Eastern patriarchates and their representatives were based on the concept of “Constantinople (Byzantium) heritage”. This theory prevailed in the official Moscow ideology in the second half of the XVII century.

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