Повесть о Феодорите Кольском (The Tale of Feodorit Kol'skij)

This is a biography written by Prince A. M. Kurbskij about his spiritual father, Feodorit Kol'skij. It is the only work dedicated to Feodorit in the Old Russian literature. The vita offers extraordinary information about Feodorit's missionary work amongst the Lapponians of the Murmansk reg...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Poljarnyj vestnik
Main Author: V. V. Kalugin
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Russian
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 1998
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7557/6.1427
https://doaj.org/article/00222a502e1f40d2b6830f33c6fc93cd
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Summary:This is a biography written by Prince A. M. Kurbskij about his spiritual father, Feodorit Kol'skij. It is the only work dedicated to Feodorit in the Old Russian literature. The vita offers extraordinary information about Feodorit's missionary work amongst the Lapponians of the Murmansk region, and his translations of Church Slavonic texts into the Saami language. On the whole, the reliability of Kurbskij's story is confirmed by other sources. It is a valuable testimony by a contemporary, and it con-tains unique facts about the colonization and conversion of the Kola Pen- insula.