Saint Sergius of Radonezh, His Trinity Monastery, and the Formation of Russian Identity
This book tells three stories. The first traces the biography of the monk Sergii of Radonezh (1322–92), founder of the Trinity monastery at the place now called Sergiev Posad (“Zagorsk” for much of the Soviet period) about forty miles northeast of Moscow. The second story tells of Sergii's afte...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2012, Volume: 54, Issue: 4, Pages: 658-660 |
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| Summary: | This book tells three stories. The first traces the biography of the monk Sergii of Radonezh (1322–92), founder of the Trinity monastery at the place now called Sergiev Posad (“Zagorsk” for much of the Soviet period) about forty miles northeast of Moscow. The second story tells of Sergii's afterlife as Russia's most revered native saint, credited as the inspiration for the expansion of cenobitic monasticism, a worker of healing miracles, and intercessor for the Russian land and for its ruling dynasty, as foreshadowed by his (alleged) role in the first Muscovite military victory over their Mongol overlords in 1380. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/css096 |