Semiachko, S. A. TO THE HISTORY OF THE KIEVAN CAVES MONASTERY DISCIPLINARY CHARTER // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2020. Vol. 42. No 3. P. 19–24. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2020.460


Literary studies

TO THE HISTORY OF THE KIEVAN CAVES MONASTERY DISCIPLINARY CHARTER

Semiachko
S. A. 		Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Keywords:
disciplinary monastery charter
the Stoudios Typicon
charter of the Kievan Caves Monastery
“Charter of the Holy Mountain” by Archimandrite Dosifei
the Epistle from Simon to Polycarp		 Summary: The article is devoted to the restoration of the Kievan Caves Monastery disciplinary charter in the early period of its history. It is known that Theodosius of the Caves adopted the Stoudios Typicon in his monastery. However, the Kievan Caves Monastery’s manuscript copies of this charter are unknown. And we hardly know about the charter-creating activities in this monastery. The article discusses attempts, both by medieval authors and researchers of the New Age, to interpret some texts as the result of the charter-creating work of the Kievan Caves Monastery monks. One such case concerns the Augmented Psalter (РГБ, ф. 98 (собр. Егорова), № 201) of 1796, in which the “Charter of the Holy Mountain” by the Nizhny Novgorod Caves Monastery Archimandrite Dosifey was attributed to Theodosius of the Caves. Another case relates to a manuscript miscellany (РГБ, ф. 98 (собр. Егорова), № 926) of the late 15th century in cluding “The Edification of Simeon the Bishop to a Certain Monk of the Caves Monastery”. This text is an edited initial fragment of the Epistle from Simon to Polycarp of the Kievan Caves Patericon. The article describes the transformation of this Epistle into a charter text under the influence of works of charter nature.



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