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Andrei Rublev
(b ?c.1360; d Moscow, 1430).The most famous of Russian icon painters. The 600th anniversary of his birth was celebrated by Soviet Russia in 1960, but the date is not firmly documented and there is ...
Beloozero
The White Lake, situated about 500 kilometres north of Moscow, gave its name to a region of forest and swamp which was erected into a principality from 1238 to 1485 ...
Pachomij Logofet
Or Pachomios the Logothete, hagiographer; born ca.1405, died before 1484?.Of Serbian origin, Pachomij was a monk on Athos until he moved (ca.1429–38) to Rus᾽, where he spent the rest ...
Pyrrhos
(Πύρρος), patriarch of Constantinople (20 Dec. 638–29 Sept. 641; 8/9 Jan.–1 June 654); died Constantinople.A favorite of Herakleios (he was godson of the emperor's sister) and Patr. Sergios I ...
Russian Orthodox Church
The Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow. Although Christianity spread into Russia early (1st cent.), it was insignificant until the 10th cent. St Vladimir of Kiev proclaimed Greek Christianity the faith ...
Trinity-Sergii
(monastery) Apart from the Kievan Caves monastery we know very little about pre-Mongol monastic foundations among the East Slavs. Most were destroyed with only their name being preserved, together ...
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