Unknown Letter of the Archbishop of Ohrid Parthenios to the Russian Czar Vasilij Šujskij
Unknown Letter of the Archbishop of Ohrid Parthenios to the Russian Czar Vasilij Šujskij

Summary/Abstract: The article publishes and analyses the text of an unknown until now Slavic Athonite document preserved in the Wallacho-Moldavian archives of the monastery of Vatopedi. This charter was composed by the Archbishop of Ochrid, Paisios (1605-1614 г.), as a letter of recommendation intending to facilitate a mission of an unspecified Athonite monastery, which was dispatched to the Russian Czar Vasiliy Ivanovich (Shuyskiy). The name of the monastery is intentionally omitted, so its identification is possible only thanks to the mention that St. Sava of Serbia had taken his monastic vows in one of its towers. According to the well known Athonite legend, this event had taken place in the Russian Athonite monastery of St. Panteleimon.

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