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Feofan Prokopovich, in the world of Elisha (Eliazar) Tseresky (1681–1736)-enlightener, publicist, socio-political and church figure of Peterovo time, outstanding theologian, philosopher, writer, preacher, historian. Bishop of Pskov and Narvsky (1718), Archbishop of Novgorod (1724). With the institution of the Holy Synod in 1721-became his vice president, in 1725-the president. Born in Kyiv, sorted early, brought up in the house of Uncle, Professor, later the rector of the Kiev-Mogilyansk Collegium, Feofan Prokopovich. Studied in Kyiv, then in Rome, in the collegium of St. Athanasius, for which he accepted the Uniagistry. In 1704, returning to Kyiv, he again turned to Orthodoxy.
One of the most educated people of his time; Decisively supported the transformative activity of Peter I. Accompanied Peter in the Prut campaign (1711); Upon returning to Kyiv, the rector of the Academy; Teaching piics and rhetoric. In 1715, he was called to St. Petersburg, where he became an assistant to Peter in the management of the Church (the destruction of the patriarchate and the institution of the Synod). He organized a school for the poor in St. Petersburg on the Karpovka River (the famous “Karpov school”), composed the primer “first teachings of the youths”, which endured 11 publications. Later in. N. Tatishchev called this primer “the best moralizing for young men”. Participated in the creation of the Russian Academy. He wrote Russian and Latin poems, was a passionate and eloquent preacher. Was at the bed of the king at his death on January 28, 1725. Immediately after the death of Peter, he performed with memorial speeches, gaining wide fame. He left a number of historical works: “The story of Emperor Peter the Great from the birth of him to Poltava’s battal” (about 1713), “The story of the election and accession to the throne of the Sovereign Anna Ioannovna” (1730) and others) and others).
N. X. Unknown artist. SPb, 2012. With. 82.
