After the news of Peter Mohyla’s participation in the Battle of Khotin, biographical information about him and his subsequent ordination to the rank of Kyiv-Pechersk Archimandrite almost completely ceased. It is possible to cite no more than two or three fragmentary indications that can serve as some data in understanding the activities of our Metropolitan during this period of time. Here we include - 1st, the spiritual will of Peter Mohyla, where he denies his brother Moses three estates in the Belga Voivodeship (Great Eyes, Zmievisvo n Volva), acquired by the metropolitan when he was still in a secular rank *); 2, notes found in the handwritten notes of Peter Mohyla about his repeated visits to Kyiv - precisely in the middle of Lent of the year in which Sagaidachny died (1622) and on the feasts of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1625, 1626 and 1627 *) and, 3, protest and letters Smotrntsvoy, where there are indications that Mshila, while still in a secular rank, took an active part in the plan of Meletius Smotritsvoy to persuade the Orthodox Church into agreement with the Uniate *)... What can be extracted from these data to characterize our metropolitan? - The acquisition of estates shows that he was thinking of settling firmly in Polish Harrow; a visit to Kyiv in 1622, during the grave illness of Hetman Sagaidachny, can serve as an indication of the friendly relations of Mogila with this zealot of Orthodoxy; annual trips to the Pechersk Lavra, which at that time was the main support of Orthodoxy
*) Shares. Kyiv. commis. vol. II, from. 1, page 163.
*) P. Mogila’s handwritten notes, the loss of which Metropolitan Eugene regretted (Description of the Kyiv-Sophia Society, p. 182) were found in 1850 and are currently stored in the Kyiv-Sophia Library. Some excerpts from these notes have been published. to Kyiv. Epar. Veda, 1861 and 1862, most of it remains unpublished to this day.
*) Rgoeviasua, iad. 1628, and letters from Smotrvtsky, printed. in 11 t. Lithuanian derk. Boyalovich Union.
vgograoichhopya SWED. about PVTRE graves before poov. him to the rank of archimandrite.
m, testify to the jealousy of the Mogila for the faith of their fathers, and the desire for a strong alliance with the defenders of this faith. Those connections are mi¬
Tropolit with M. Smotritsky, which we pointed out above cannot contradict this. Mogila pursued good goals when entering into relations with Meletius. The reasons that prompted P. Mogila to accept the title of Kyiv-Pechersk archimandrite and then all his subsequent activities both in this title and subsequently in the rank of metropolitan completely convince us of this.
Prince Mikhail Vasilyevich Skopin-Shuisky.
Reading by V. S. Inonniyom.
I.
The Skopin-Shuisky branch was not large. It started with the prince's great-grandfather. Mikhail Vasilyevich, nicknamed Osprey, and ended with the hero of the time of troubles (see genealogy table, in Ist. Solovyov, table UI; Genealogy book of Prince P. Dolgorukov, I, 234),). The latter’s grandfather, Fyodor Ivanovich, along with the other Shuiskys, took part in the reign during Ivan Grovny’s childhood, contributed to the removal of the Tsar’s favorite, Vorontsov, suffered exile along with his relatives from the Glinskys and became their avenger during the terrible Moscow fires of 1547.
') Ivan Swapa descended in direct line from Prince Dm. Konstantinovich Nizhny Novgorod (Genealogy book in the Times of Moscow General History, X, 44). Osprey is a bird of prey from the genus of eagles (Dictionary of Church Slavic Languages, published by Ak. Sciences and Regions. Dahl’s Dictionary). Nikita Romanov's ancestral patrimony - Ostrozhok - to Tsar. Alexei Mikhailovich takes the name Skopinskaya Sloboda (later the city of Skopin), from the Osprey bird that lived in its vicinity. And now this bird, depicted flying on a blue field, serves as the coat of arms of the mountains. Save on (Statistical description. Ryazan province. Baranovich, 512; Geographer. Words. Semenov, IV, 621). There is an indication that most of the Skopinsky volosts belonged to the Skopin-Shuisky family. (Notes about the land of Ryazan in Reading Moscow General History, Iod I, book I, 23; cf. Otech. Zap. 1829, part Xb, Archaeological and Statistical Review of the City of Skopin, 412-413).
KOPIN-SHUISKY.