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Russian Language Journal

Early Russian Hagiography: The Life of Prince Fedor the Black by Gail Lenhoff

Keywords

Prince Fedor Rostislavovoch, Russian higiography

Abstract

Gail Lenhoff s new book is a comprehensive study of Prince Fedor Rostislavovoch of Smolensk and Iaroslavl' known as "the Black" because he became a monk (died in 1299; canonized by Russian Orthodox Church in 1469). During and expecially after his life, Prince Fedor the Black was a subject of numerous writings which represent almost every major school of Russian higiography. Lehoff analyzes these mostly previously unpublished materials and attempts to recreate the multifaceted historical and sociocultural context of Fedor's veneration, from the discovery of his uncorrupted remains in the fourteenth century through the pre- Petrine, Imperial and Soviet periods to the pres

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