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SERGIYEVO , a See also:town of See also:Russia, in the See also:government of See also:Moscow, 44 M. by See also:rail N.N.E. of Moscow. It has grown up See also:round the monastery or lavra of Troitsko-Sergiyevskaya. It is situated in a beautiful See also:country, the buildings extending partly over the See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill occupied by the monastery and partly over the valley below. Including the suburbs it had, in 1884, 31,400 inhabitants, and 31,413 in r90o. Sergiyevo has See also:long been renowned for its manufacture of See also:holy pictures (painted and carved), spoons, and other articles carved in See also:wood, especially toys, which are sold to pilgrims who resort to the See also:place to the number of roo,000 annually.
The Troltsk or Trinity monastery is the most sacred spot in See also:middle Russia, the See also:Great Russians regarding it with more veneration than even the cathedrals and See also:relics of the Kremlin at Moscow. It occupies a picturesque site on the See also:top of a hill, protected on two sides by deep ravines and steep slopes. The walls, 25 to 50 ft. in height, are fortified by nine towers, one of which is a See also:prison for both See also:civil and ecclesiastical offenders. Thirteen churches, including the Troitskiy (Trinity) and Uspenskiy cathedrals, a See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
bell-See also:tower, a theological See also:academy, various buildings for monks and pilgrims, and a See also:hospital stand within the precincts, which are two-thirds of a mile in See also:circuit. A small wooden See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, erected by the See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk See also:Sergius, and afterwards burned (1391) by the See also:Tatars, stood on the site now occupied by the See also:cathedral of the Trinity, which was built in 1422, and contains the relics of Sergius, as well as ecclesiastic treasures of priceless value and a holy picture which has frequently been brought into requisition in See also:Russian See also:campaigns. The Uspensky cathedral was erected in 1585; See also:close beside it are the See also:graves of See also:Tsar Boris Godunov (died in 16o5) and his See also:family. In the See also:southern See also:part of the monastery is the church of Sergius, beneath which are spacious rooms where 200,000 dinners are distributed gratis every See also:year to the pilgrims. The bell-tower, 320 ft. high, has a bell weighing 64 tons. Several monasteries of less importance exist in the neighbourhood. In 1340 two See also:brothers erected a church on the spot. The See also:elder took monastic orders under the name of Sergius, and became famous among the peasants around. His monastery acquired great fame and became the wealthiest in middle Russia. See also:Ivan the Terrible in 1561 made it the centre of the ecclesiastical See also:province of Moscow. During the See also:Polish invasion at the beginning of the 17th See also:century it organized the See also:national resistance. In 1608–1609 it withstood a sixteen months' See also:siege by the Poles; at a later date the monks took a lively part in the organization of the See also:army which crushed the outbreak of the peasants. In 1685 See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter the Great took See also:refuge here from the revolted streltzi, or See also:Muscovite military See also:guards. The theological See also:seminary, founded in 1744 and transformed in 1814 into an academy, reckoned See also:Platon and Philarete among its pupils.
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