Ivan the Terrible sticherons on the «podoben» (sample) in honor of St. Peter the metropolitan All Russia

The authors first examine the chants of Ivan the Terrible - sticherons in honor of St. Peter the Metropolitan of All Russia, in which the tsar applied to traditional old Russian musical hymnographical art principle - to compose chants following the sample (podoben). The researchers conducted a study based on textual method of structural formulae analysis, worked out by them. They argue that tsar took as a model the ancient podoben “Kymi pokhvalnimi ventsami” (“What laudable crowns”). But it is not only this. He used a series of hymnographical texts ascending to it. It was above all the sticherons in honor of some Saints of the highest rank including chants in in honor of St. Peter written earlier by Metropolitan Cyprian. the problem of tsar authorship is disclosed. Ivan the Terrible, in fact, created new hymnographical artworks, reflecting on the Moscow Metropolitan new role and place in the history of the country.