A handwritten note by the late Metropolitan of Kyiv, Evgeniy Bolkhovitinov, about the appearance of the Metropolitan to him has been preserved. Paul at the time when a new crypt was built under the great church of the Lavra and it was ordered to transfer there, to the newly built graves, all the coffins, both buried in the ground and placed in the crypt under the cathedral. “On the 12th day of June 1827, they reported to me (writes Metropolitan Evgeniy) that in the tomb, under the Stefanovo chapel, the body of the Tobolsk bishop Pavel, resting in a coffin on top of the ground and designated for burial in a new place, turned out to be incorrupt, which is why I ordered it to be left to look at for myself, but that day I did not have time to make an inspection. The next night, when I fell asleep, a storm appeared to me, shaking the atmosphere, from which I woke up and heard someone walking steadily and very firmly through the halls into my bedroom. The doors opened and an unknown man entered, illuminated by the light, in a bishop’s vestment, with anger on his face, I wanted to get up and bow to him, but I could not, because I had legs, and especially knees. They trembled violently. The one who appeared said to me: Chi dasi, don’t let us taste it, I won’t give it to you either.
feel free! Then he walked out of the bedroom with measured steps. The next morning I came in the coffin of the bishop, whom I had supposed to examine the day before, and, after removing the roof, I saw the same saint of God, Paul, who appeared to me at night, and in the same vestments. With tears I kissed his hands, served a memorial service and ordered the coffin to be left in the same place."
This dream of M. Eugene remains, first of all, an event in his personal mental life, and from this point of view it should be assessed.
Gazette of 1786 about persons staying in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, on the basis of the decrees of St. synod 1).
1) Rev. Seraphim, Metropolitan of Lacedaemon, has been in the Lavra since June 1778, according to what he received from St. Synod Ave. 777 Oct. On the 13th and 781st of May, the 25th of the decrees, by which it was prescribed for people to live in the Lavra to be decent and similar to his rank. He receives a cash pension of 500 rubles per year, and in addition to the laurels for the sake of his maintenance, he receives half a white sieve bread per day from the cellar, three servings of simple bread for ministers, two rolls on holidays and Sundays, two quarts of buckwheat per month, two quarts of millet, 20 or 4 pounds of salt, 5 quarts of hemp oil per month; fresh fish, and at times salted for three dishes, all kinds of fish, cheese and cow’s butter against the cathedral are also sold; from Vlyuchnya for a week, 2 quarts of wine, 2 quarts of strong vodka, 7 quarts of honey, 3 quarts of beer every day and 2 quarts of acid; Yes, for the holidays of Christmas, Resurrection and Assumption, 3 buckets of strong vodka and 2 quarts of sweet vodka. Large tallow candle for a month for 30. From the kitchen beetroot, cabbage and all kinds of garden vegetables, and to save money for the servants on meat days, butter and lard. And wood for heating the stoves.
2) Archimandrite Spiridon Vitkooich of the Serbian nation by decree
*) Yves archival documents of St. Synod.
ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF THE Kyiv TH CENTURY.
St. Proceedings of the Synod 778 Apr. 27 in the Lavra received, by the force of the personal highest decree held, assigned to residence and maintenance against the cathedral hieromonk receives from the Kyiv treasury chamber a monetary pension of 150 rubles per year, and from the Lavra for the circle section 25 rubles per year. The same is allotted to him for his maintenance per week from the spring house, quarts of strong vodka, 1 quart of honey, etc.
3) Former Archimandrite of the Baturinskaya Krupetskaya St. Nicholas Monastery Barsanuphius, sent to the Lavra at the decree of St. Proceedings of the Synod of 780, March 30, on his promise, as he was in the Lavra and tonsured, for the cathedral portion.
4) Archimandrite Eozma Vestaris, who was under the late Patriarch of Constantinople Seraphim - May 28, 781, according to what was received from St. Proceedings of the Synod in the Lavra decree, at his request he lives with content in everything against the cathedral Lavra hieromonk.
5) Former cellarer of the Trinity Sergius Lavra, Hieromonk Innocent, at his request and desire in treating the disease, by decree of St. Ave. of the Synod, received in the Lavra on December 1, 767, was given a residence permit in order to maintain it with decent respect. He receives a pension of 150 rubles, and on top of that, he receives maintenance from the Lavra like the above-mentioned archimandrites.
6) Court tafem-deker Lukian Eorolkevich, mentally damaged, November 763, 4 days, under a decree from St. the representative of the synod was sent to the Lavra for stay and mental correction with an order to satisfy his Korolkevich with food and clothing. That’s why his allowance is made from the Lavra, on a day of sieve bread a quarter, and on holidays and rolls, and from the meal two quarts of food and beer from the key. The robe is given for his sake from the Lavra treasury. Moreover, the soldier who is with him for the service and preservation of his health, appointed by the Kyiv Chief Commandant's Office, is given an ordinary portion of bread every day and food from the meal, like all Lavra novices, is given out.
In total, according to the decrees of those living in the monastery, there are six - 6.
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From the history of the Kyiv Greek Catherine Monastery x).