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Danilov Monastery, the Glossary

Danilov Monastery (also Svyato-Danilov Monastery or Holy Danilov Monastery; Danilov monastyr', Svyato-Danilov monastyr') is a walled monastery on the right bank of the Moskva River in Moscow.^[1]

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Alexander Nevsky

Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky (Александр Ярославич Невский;; monastic name: Aleksiy; 13 May 1221 – 14 November 1263) was Prince of Novgorod (1236–1240; 1241–1256; 1258–1259), Grand Prince of Kiev (1246–1263) and Grand Prince of Vladimir (1252–1263).

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Alexis of Russia

Alexei Mikhailovich (Алексей Михайлович,; –), also known as Alexis, was Tsar of all Russia from 1645 until his death in 1676.

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Almshouse

An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) is charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during the Middle Ages.

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Archimandrite

The title archimandrite (archimandritēs.), used in Eastern Christianity, originally referred to a superior abbot (hegumenos, ἡγούμενος, present participle of the verb meaning "to lead") whom a bishop appointed to supervise several "ordinary" abbots and monasteries, or as the abbot of some especially great and important monastery.

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Ğazı II Giray

Ğazı II Giray (1554 – November 1607) was a khan of the Crimean Khanate.

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Baker Library/Bloomberg Center

The Baker Library/Bloomberg Center is a building complex at Harvard Business School on the campus of Harvard University in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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Bishop

A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution.

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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary (abbr.; 35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume encyclopaedia in Russian.

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Chapel

A chapel (from cappella) is a Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small.

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Charles Richard Crane

Charles Richard Crane (August 7, 1858 – February 15, 1939) was a wealthy American businessman, heir to a large industrial fortune and connoisseur of Arab culture, a noted Arabist.

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Christianization of Kievan Rus'

The Christianization of Kievan Rus' was a long and complicated process that took place in several stages.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Crimean Khanate

The Crimean Khanate, self-defined as the Throne of Crimea and Desht-i Kipchak, and in old European historiography and geography known as Little Tartary, was a Crimean Tatar state existing from 1441–1783, the longest-lived of the Turkic khanates that succeeded the empire of the Golden Horde.

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Daniel of Moscow

Daniil Aleksandrovich (Russian: Даниил Александрович; 1261 – 5 March 1303), also known as Daniil of Moscow, was the youngest son of Alexander Nevsky and forefather of all Princes of Moscow.

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Dessiatin

A dessiatin or desyatina (десятина) is an archaic, rudimentary land measurement used in tsarist Russia.

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Fabergé egg

A Fabergé egg (yaytso Faberzhe) is a jewelled egg created by the jewellery firm House of Fabergé, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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Feodor I of Russia

Fyodor I Ivanovich (Фёдор I Иванович) or Feodor I Ioannovich (label; 31 May 1557 – 17 January 1598), nicknamed the Blessed (label), was Tsar of all Russia from 1584 until his death in 1598.

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First seven ecumenical councils

In the history of Christianity, the first seven ecumenical councils include the following: the First Council of Nicaea in 325, the First Council of Constantinople in 381, the Council of Ephesus in 431, the Council of Chalcedon in 451, the Second Council of Constantinople in 553, the Third Council of Constantinople from 680 to 681 and finally, the Second Council of Nicaea in 787.

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French invasion of Russia

The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign (Campagne de Russie) and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 (Otéchestvennaya voyná 1812 góda), was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian Empire to comply with the continental blockade of the United Kingdom.

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Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (translit) serves by Church statute as the supreme administrative governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church in the periods between Bishops' Councils.

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Ivan Bolotnikov

Ivan Isayevich Bolotnikov (Ива́н Иса́евич Боло́тников; 1565–1608) headed a popular uprising in Russia in 1606–1607 known as the Bolotnikov Rebellion (Восстание Ивана Болотникова).

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Ivan the Terrible

Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Иван IV Васильевич; 25 August 1530 –), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584.

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Katholikon

A katholikon or catholicon (καθολικόν) or sobor (Slavonic: съборъ) refers to one of three things in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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Khan (title)

Khan is a historic Mongolic and Turkic title originating among nomadic tribes in the Central and Eastern Eurasian Steppe to refer to a king.

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Kremlin

The Moscow Kremlin (Moskovskiy Kreml'), or simply the Kremlin, is a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia. Danilov Monastery and Kremlin are Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Moscow.

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List of impostors

An impostor (also spelled imposter) is a person who pretends to be somebody else, often through means of disguise.

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List of metropolitans and patriarchs of Moscow

This article lists the metropolitans and patriarchs of Moscow, spiritual heads of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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Lowell House

Lowell House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University, located at 10 Holyoke Place facing Mount Auburn Street between Harvard Yard and the Charles River.

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Monastery

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).

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Monk

A monk (from μοναχός, monachos, "single, solitary" via Latin monachus) is a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Moskva (river)

The Moskva (река Москва, Москва-река, Moskva-reka) is a river that flows through western Russia.

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Nikephoros Theotokis

Nikephoros Theotokis or Nikiforos Theotokis (Никифор Феотоки or Никифор Феотокис; 1731–1800) was a Greek scholar and theologian, who became an archbishop in the southern provinces of the Russian Empire.

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Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the grotesque in his writings, for example in his works "The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat", and "Nevsky Prospekt". These stories, and others such as "Diary of a Madman", have also been noted for their proto-surrealist qualities.

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Nikolai Rubinstein

Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (Николай Григорьевич Рубинштейн; &ndash) was a Russian pianist, conductor, and composer.

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Nikolay Yazykov

Nikolay Mikhailovich Yazykov (Никола́й Миха́йлович Язы́ков; –) was a Russian poet and Slavophile who in the 1820s rivalled Alexander Pushkin and Yevgeny Baratynsky as the most popular poet of his generation.

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NKVD

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del), abbreviated as NKVD, was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946.

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Novice

A novice is a person who has entered a religious order and is under probation, before taking vows.

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Novodevichy Cemetery

Novodevichy Cemetery (Novodevichye kladbishche) is a cemetery in Moscow. Danilov Monastery and Novodevichy Cemetery are Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Moscow.

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October Revolution

The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup,, britannica.com Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923.

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Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'

The Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (translit), also known as the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, is the title of the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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Pulpit

A pulpit is a raised stand for preachers in a Christian church.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Moskovskiy patriarkhat), is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church.

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Russian units of measurement

Traditional Russian units of measurement were standardized and used in Imperial Russia and after the Russian Revolution, but were abandoned after 21 July 1925, when the Soviet Union adopted the metric system, per the order of the Council of People's Commissars.

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Sacristy

A sacristy, also known as a vestry or preparation room, is a room in Christian churches for the keeping of vestments (such as the alb and chasuble) and other church furnishings, sacred vessels, and parish records.

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Saint

In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God.

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Soviet people

The Soviet people (sovetsky narod) were the citizens and nationals of the Soviet Union.

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Time of Troubles

The Time of Troubles (Smutnoye vremya), also known as Smuta (troubles), was a period of political crisis in Russia which began in 1598 with the death of Feodor I, the last of the House of Rurik, and ended in 1613 with the accession of Michael I of the House of Romanov.

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Treasury

A treasury is either.

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Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius

The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius (Троице-Сергиева лавра) is a lavra and the most important Russian monastery, being the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church. Danilov Monastery and Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius are Russian Orthodox monasteries in Russia.

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Tsarevich

Tsarevich (царевич) was a title given to the sons of tsars.

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Vasili IV of Russia

Vasili IV Ivanovich Shuisky (Vasiliy IV Ivanovich Shuyskiy, 12 September 1612) was Tsar of all Russia from 1606 to 1610, after the murder of False Dmitri I. His rule coincided with the Time of Troubles.

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Vasily Perov

Vasily Grigorevich Perov (Василий Григорьевич Перов; 2 January 1834 – 10 June 1882) was a Russian painter, a key figure of the Russian Realist movement and one of the founding members of Peredvizhniki.

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Viktor Vekselberg

Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg (born April 14, 1957) is a Russian oligarch, billionaire, and businessman.

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Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)

Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov (Влади́мир Серге́евич Соловьёв; –) was a Russian philosopher, theologian, poet, pamphleteer, and literary critic, who played a significant role in the development of Russian philosophy and poetry at the end of the 19th century and in the spiritual renaissance of the early 20th century.

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Vologda

Vologda (Во́логда) is a city and the administrative center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the river Vologda within the watershed of the Northern Dvina.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danilov_Monastery

Also known as Danilov Cemetery, St. Daniel Monastery, St. Daniel's monastery, Данилов монастырь, Свято-Данилов монастырь.

, Time of Troubles, Treasury, Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, Tsarevich, Vasili IV of Russia, Vasily Perov, Viktor Vekselberg, Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher), Vologda.

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Episcopal palaces

Monasteries in Moscow

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