Prince Ioannovich of All Russia's nephew. Mich. Shuisky - Skopin. stop
I entered the summer of 7118 (1610), April on the twenty-third day, in memory of the great martyr. George, at the last hour of the night." Ancient Russian Vivl., XI, 232. The Tale of the Birth of Prince Skopin is in complete agreement with this definition of the day and hour.
3) This brave commander fell ill at the christening feast... And so, barely reaching the monastery bosom, then the ore was released... and death abduction abided" (Manuscript Philaret, 25-26). In Abraham Salitsin; "Having been slightly ill, the terrible young man went to the Lord" (p. 231. Pskov, 59 years old; Nikonov and others like her do not separate these events).
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indications that Skopin's illness lasted more than a week, even up to two weeks *). Therefore, other scientists adhere to one of these testimonies (“several days” in Kostomarov, P, 337; “two weeks” in Solovyov, VIII, 312-313), but attribute the onset of Skopin’s illness to April 23, at a feast at Vorotynsky.
It seems to us that both conclusions are incorrect. There is no doubt that Skopin's illness lasted up to two weeks. Not to mention Palitsyn's too general expression ("having been ill a little*"), which indicates rather a duration than a quick outcome of it, one cannot reject other, more accurate indications. Sigismund's Diary speaks of this very clearly; and Zholvevsny reports that Skopin's illness was accompanied by fever (1st ed. 63, 2nd ed. 38), therefore, symptoms also longer. The chronicle data we cited above (note) are expressed in such a general form that they do not give the right to draw a conclusion in the opposite sense, and even more so since they do not contradict the news given now.
With all this, we remain with the indication that Skopin’s death occurred on April 23. This is confirmed by church records and a more careful explanation of the sources. In the Stolyarovsky chronograph, which belonged to Karamzin, instead of indicating the date and month of death, it is noted: “and by the judgment of God in his belly there is no flock after great days soon* (Izborn. Popov 344); and this can only be said about April 23, and not about two days later; since the first day of Easter in 1610 fell on 8 April. The chronicler's expression (“great days*”) can, of course, refer to the entire bright week, and then another definition (“soon”) is quite accurate; but the chronicler would hardly have allowed himself to express himself this way if Skopin had died two weeks or even a week after April 23 (i.e. May 7 or April 30) 2). And these considerations are quite suitable
') For example, in the Diary of Sigismund III's campaign, in which news was written down as they were received in the camp, it is noted: “They said that he was sick for two weeks and could not recover * (584).
From Herkman: “His illness intensified so much that after” 8 or 9 days he died* (315).
*) (Lazania about the birth of Skopin says: “G ao the outcome of the day confirmed by the Diary of Sigismund's campaign. The news of Skopin's death was recorded in it on May 13 of the new style, or May 3 of the old style, with the remark that he had been ill for two weeks. It was received near Smolensk from Mozhaisk (based on the testimony of two transferred boyars), where, after Skopin’s death, alms were sent to almshouses for a memorial for his soul. Taking into account the time required for these relations, the duration of Skopin’s illness and the confirmation of the said news by Slug (recorded under the same date), sent to Moscow from the king and senators to negotiate with the tsar and boyars (his departure is mentioned in the diary on April 29, new style, or 19 old), it should be concluded that death Skopina followed precisely on April 23, and the catastrophe that happened to the ppm at the feast at Vorotynsky should be attributed two weeks earlier (Diary 585-86, 578).
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