Hieromonk Zosima - hierodeacon and later hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church , traveler to the Holy Land , author of the work “The book is the verb Xenos, or wanderer of deacon Zosim on the way of Jerusalem to Tsarigrad and to Jerusalem”, or “The Walk of the Monk Zosim”.
Zosima, apparently, belonged to the brotherhood of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery . In 1414, he first visited Constantinople , accompanying Princess Anna Vasilievna , who was engaged to John , the son of Emperor Manuel II Paleolog .
In the spring of 1419, Zosima again took a trip to the East, visited Athos , the islands of Chios , Patmos and on April 7, 1420 reached Jerusalem . In his "Wanderer" he described in detail the sights of the Holy City.
The Wanderer Zosima was published in The Tales of the Russian People by Ivan Sakharov [1] and in the Orthodox Palestinian Collection [2] .
Notes
- ↑ II. P. 59.
- ↑ T. VIII. - Vol. 3. - St. Petersburg., 1889, under the editorship of H. M. Lopareva
Literature
- Old Russian pilgrims, F. Grekova, 1891 , I (ed. Imp. Rights. Palest. Total.).
- Peretz V.N. Zosima, Hieromonk of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- FROM THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN TRAVELS AND THE STUDY OF THE MIDDLE EAST IN DOPETROVSK RUSSIA