Archimandrite Anthony (in the world Andrei Germanovich Platkovsky ; 1682 (?) - July 15 (26), 1746 , Pereslavl-Zalessky ) - Archimandrite of the Pereslavl Danilov Monastery , head of the Beijing Spiritual Mission , one of the first Sinologists in Russia.
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Biography
The son of a Cossack, who became a priest in Kiev. In 1701-1710 he studied at Kiev schools.
After moving to Moscow in 1710 to his aunt Catherine Borzakovskaya (a nun who lived in the house of Princess Catherine Alekseevna ) due to his illness, in 1712 he was tonsured a monk with the name Anthony .
In 1719 he was taken by the Tobolsk Metropolitan Philofei to the archdeacon . Soon Anthony was elevated to the rank of Archimandrite of the Irkutsk Ascension Monastery . In 1721, he opened a school at the monastery, in which he himself taught children the Mongolian language . The first acquainted East Siberia with the methodological education of youth by opening a Mongolian school in the Irkutsk monastery; made a charter of the school, gathered students, found a teacher and arranged a room. He expelled drinking establishments from the monastery lands.
In 1727, he was appointed head of the Beijing spiritual mission . Having gone there with his students, Anthony returned with them from Selenginsk back due to the contention. In 1729, Anthony made his second trip to Beijing, and this time he lived there for five years. In Beijing, he continued the work of educating children and bothered to print a lexicon in Russian, Latin, Chinese and Manchurian; He took care of the improvement of the church in the embassy courtyard, expanded the premises for the Russians and set up a new courtyard for the newly baptized.
On November 6, 1734, he was returned to Russia through denunciations of the ruin of Irkutsk monasteries and embezzlement of money allocated for the construction of a church in Beijing. The trial dragged on for a long time, ending on January 9, 1741 with the following ruling: “ Anthony should have been deprived of the archimandrite, hieromonk and monastic dignity, confiscating his estate and exiling him for a permanent residence in the monastery, but, according to the gracious manifest on October 23, 1740, his guilt to let go, for the thieves' misconduct of archimandrism and hieromonasticism, to deprive him and be him a simple monk, with permission to live in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra . "
In 1742, Anthony was appointed treasurer of the laurels and introduced to the Empress , and in 1744 he was again elevated to the rank of Archimandrite of the Pereslavl Danilov Monastery, where he lived until his death.
Links
- Russian Biographical Dictionary : In 25 volumes / under the supervision of A. A. Polovtsov. 1896-1918.
- ANTHONY // Orthodox Encyclopedia . - M .: Church Scientific Center "Orthodox Encyclopedia" , 2001. - T. II. - S. 637. - 752 p. - 40,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89572-007-2 .