Troitsky, Ivan Egorovich

Born in the family of the clerk. After graduating from the Kargopol Theological College and the Olonets Theological Seminary , he entered the St. Petersburg Theological Academy , which he graduated in 1859 with a master's degree.

He taught logic, psychology, patristics and Latin in the Olonets Theological Seminary . Since 1861 he taught at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy at the Department of Greek; 1863 - at the Department of General Church History. In 1875 he defended his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Theology. From 1884 until his retirement, he occupied the Department of History and Analysis of Western Confessions.

Since 1874, he lectured on church history at the historical and philological faculty of St. Petersburg University as a privat-docent. In the years 1880-1901. - Professor of this university in the department of church history. ^[2]

In 1876-1891, he annually published the historical review “The Orthodox East and the Non-Orthodox West in the past year” in the journal “Church Vestnik”. He was a member of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society .

In 1880-1890, he was the editor and censor of the Christian Reading magazine.

From 1878 to 1898, through him, as an adviser to the Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod , KP Pobedonostsev , all diplomatic mail from the East ( Constantinople , Jerusalem , etc.) went through concerning church affairs; all measures taken by the Holy Synod in Eastern politics were coordinated (or developed) by him ^[3] . He was one of the organizers of the Russian Archaeological Institute in Constantinople (the question of its establishment has been discussed since December 1888 ^[4] ). Since 1878 he was in intensive correspondence with George Pavlovich Begleri ( 1850 - 1923 ), a Greek born in Constantinople and accepted Russian citizenship; the latter informed Troitsky about the state of affairs and moods in the Patriarchate and other church, political and scientific news ^[5] . Troitsky redirected most of the letters from Beglery to Pobedonostsev.

Since 1892, he was a member of the Commission of the Holy Synod on the Old Catholic Question.

In 1899 he retired.

He died on August 2, 1901, and was buried on August 4 at the Nikolsky cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra .

Since 1874, he lectured on church history at St. Petersburg University , first with the rank of associate professor, then an extraordinary and since 1884, ordinary professor.

The overwhelming majority of Trinity's works are devoted to the history of the Christian East. Doctoral dissertation - “An exposition of the Armenian faith, inscribed by Narzes , the Catholicos of Armenia, at the request of the God-loving Emperor of the Greeks Manuel” (St. Petersburg, 1875). Some of his articles in journals are whole books, for example, “Arseny, the Patriarch of Nicaea and Constantinople, and Arsenites” ( Christian Reading Magazine: 1867, 1869, 1871 and 1872).

For several years he studied Greek manuscripts in Moscow bookstores. Only some of the materials he extracted from there were printed (for example, "The Autobiography of Emperor Mikhail Paleolog" in the journal Christian Reading, 1885, in the original with a Russian translation and notes). For the later era of the history of the Russian Church , the historical materials printed by him about the Olonets Archbishop of Arcadia (Lysom) are especially important.

He considered the synodal structure of the Russian Church optimal, and its actual position in universal Orthodoxy the first ^[6] ; in his assessments and political activities proceeded from the "thesis of the complete solidarity of the interests of the church and the state in the field of international relations " ^[7] . His report ^[6] on a trip to Constantinople and Mount Athos in August 1886 was compiled as “an apology of the Russian church presence and Russian politics in the East” ^[8] . He argued with Terti Filippov , who spoke out from the standpoint of the need for solidarity with the Ecumenical Patriarchate in church and political matters. In his judgments about the Greek Church in general, he was distinguished by extreme tendentiousness and Hellenophobia, while having very superficial and indirect knowledge and information about the contemporary life of the Orthodox East ^[9] , where he briefly visited for the first time only in 1886. Some of his illustrations of the “extreme breakdown of church order and the decline of church discipline” in the Greek Church are a projection of the peculiarities of Russian church-liturgical practice (for example, the Greeks do not have to confess immediately before the sacrament ).

Printed Works

• Arseny, Patriarch of Nicaea and Constantinople and Arsenites: (On the history of the Eastern Church in the 13th century). - SPb .: Type. Dep. inheritance, 1873. - 534 p.
• The creed of Western confessions: A course of lectures given to students of the III and IV courses of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy by ordinary professor. Ivan Egorovich Troitsky ... - Kazan: Tipo-lit. Yazdovsky, Cens. 1886.
  • ... 1885/86 textbook. g. - Cens. 1886. - [2], 264 p. - Lithograph.
  • ... 1887/88 textbook. g. - Cens. 1888. - 316 p. - Lithograph.
  • ... in 1889/90 - St. Petersburg: Lit. Funeral, Cens. 1890. - 330 p.
  • ... 1891–1892 - [1892]. - 240 p.
  • ... in 1893/94 - [St. Petersburg]: Lit. Bogdanova, Cens. 1894. –231 p.
  • ... in 1897/98 - [St. Petersburg]: Lit. Fomina, Cens. 1898 .-- 335 s.
• A note on the situation of Orthodoxy and Russian affairs in Palestine, professor of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy I.E. Trinity // Orthodox in the Holy Land. - B.M., [189-]. - S. 143–173.
• Notes on the history of the Western Church by its separation from the Eastern. - [St. Petersburg]: Lit. Tranchelles, [1877]. - 196 p.
• A statement of the faith of the Armenian Church, inscribed by Nerses, the Catholicos of Armenia, at the request of God-loving sovereign of the Greeks Manuel: Ist.-dogma, issled. in connection with the issue of the reunification of the Armenian Church with the Orthodox. - SPb .: Type. Eleansky and Popovitsky, 1875. - IX, 339, IV p. Provisions ... - Cens. 1875. - 3 p.
• History of Western Religions. - [St. Petersburg]: Lit. Yazdovsky, [188-]. - 267 p.
• History of Western Confessions: Lectures by prof. I.E. Trinity. - [St. Petersburg]: Lit. Bogdanova, Cens. 1895. - 183 p.
• History and analysis of Western confessions: Summary of lectures by prof. I.E. Troitsky, 1896/97 - [St. Petersburg]: Lit. Bogdanova. [1897] .– 180s.
• Summary of readings on the history of the West Russian Church in the St. Petersburg Theological Academy for the 1894/95 textbook. year. - [St. Petersburg]: Lit. Bogdanova, 1895 .-- 36 p.
• Lectures on the history of Western confessions: Read to students of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy in 1884/85 acad. ordinary prof. I.E. Trinity. - Kazan, [188-]. - 235 p. - Lithograph.
• Lectures on the history of Western confessions. - [SPb.]: Theological Academy, Censorship. 1893. - 194 p. - Lithograph.
• On the work of Archimandrite Amphilochius under the name: Condacarius in the Greek script of the XII-XIII centuries. according to the manuscript of the Moscow Synodal Library No. 437: From ancient glory. per. kondaky and ikos, which are translated and from adj. extracts of kondakas and icos from the service. Greek hand. Minea from glories, ancient per. and 2, from glories, service. miney hand. with Greek. with and without text and with different interpretations in both languages ​​with pictures in the number of 229 s. Moscow, 1879 - [SPb.]: Type. Imp. Acad. Sciences, [1881]. - 24 p. - Ott. from: Report on the twenty-third award of Count Uvarov ... - SPb., 1881.
• Review of the work of Mr. Teplov under the title: The Greek-Bulgarian Church Question on Unpublished Sources. - [SPb.]: Type. Imp. Acad. Sciences, [1886]. - 10s. - Ott. from: Report on the twenty-eighth award of Count Count Uvarov ... - SPb., 1886.
• A sketch of the history of the Eastern Church on its separation from the Western to the present (IX-XIX centuries). - SPb .: Lit. Trenche la, [1877] .– 93s.
• A detailed summary of the new common church history. - SPb .: Lit. Tranchelles, 1877 .-- 50 p.
• The church side of the Bulgarian question . - SPb., 1888. - 30 s. - Sep. Ott. from: Yearly Act Imp. St. Petersburg University for 1887

Compilation

• Michael Paleolog (imp. Byzant.). Autobiography of Emperor Michael Paleologus and an excerpt from the Charter given to him by the monastery of St. Demetrius: According to the manuscript of Mosk. synod, bk # 363 ed. (and comp. afterword) prof. I. Troitsky. - SPb .: Type. Eleonsky, 1885. - [4], 51s. - Text Rus., Greek. - Extracted. from: Christian reading. - 1885.

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• Barinov D.A., Rostovtsev E.A. Troitsky Ivan Egorovich // Biography of St. Petersburg State University
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• Troitsky, Ivan Yegorovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.