The Composition of the Brothers and Ministers of the Svyatogorsk Monastery of the Pskov Diocese at the End of the 18th Century

The Svyatogorsk Monastery of the Pskov Diocese was once famous throughout Russia for its miraculous icons of the Mother of God (1563–1569). Currently, the monastery is better known as the burial place of A. S. Pushkin. During the Soviet period, researchers who wrote about the monastery were limited by certain ideological frameworks, and mostly paid attention to the monastery as a place inextricably linked with the name of the great poet. The main available research that sheds light on the pages of the history of the monastery is the work of Hegumen John (Mazʹ) Description of the Svyatogorsk Dormition Monastery of the Pskov Diocese (Pskov, 1899). In describing the Synodal period in this work Fr. John limited himself to brief information about the history of the monastery. This article attempts to supplement the information given by Fr. John about the abbots and monks of the monastery at the end of the 18th century on the basis of archival materials from the Svyatogorsk Monastery collection, preserved in the State Archives of the Pskov Region (GAPO. collection 328) and in need of a thorough and systematic study.