For some reason, the original report of Archimandrite Zosima, with the attachment of the original will of M. Paul, disappeared in the mail. Most likely, this happened because the plague that devastated Kyiv in 1770 threatened the rest of the empire, and postal communications were extremely hampered by quarantines. Be that as it may, St. The synod learned of the death of Metropolitan. Paul only from a private letter from the Kyiv-Pechersk archimandrite Gabriel of Bremenetsky, the archbishop of St. Petersburg, who at that time had already been appointed to the Kyiv metropolitanate. The Holy Synod was very concerned about the slowdown in the burial of Metropolitan Paul, especially in view of the current circumstances in Kyiv. And although Gabriel Kremenetsky had already let Archimandrite know. Zosima that “the body of that late Right Reverend, if, under the current circumstances in Kyiv, it is doubtful to delay, it can be interred even before receiving a decree from the Holy Synod,” nevertheless St. the synod considered it necessary to confirm
F. A. Ternovsky by decree of December 4. 1770 L: 1891 about the immediate ion body of the reverend. Paul - if it has not yet been buried - burial.
Archim. Zosnma reported that even before receiving the synodal decree, the synod had written by letter. member of Gabriel, burial of the body of Rev. Paul on December 19th committed. But, as can be seen, by burial the rector of the monastery meant the burial service of the body of St. Pact, and not his interment.
The memory of M. Pavel is surrounded by legends. Some of them are given in the article by Count M.V. Tolstoy, published in Readings of Moscow. total et. and ancient 1870. These legends are:
They say that on the night before the synodal trial, the accused saint appeared in a dream to one of the synodal members (Metropolitan Dimitri Sechenov) and uttered the following menacing words: Koia Ergepa Essésiae ébegipi, apaietaiis otpiubiz beigasiogibiis iziogiš Bopogit (?), eiiat edo, bto resaiog ei Esseziae Szhizii Erizsoriz Ishii&ppz, pop teotsiyet oge, zed ogeteogpt raigit, РЪі, deigasiogi Essiesiaziisogit ЪІІогпт, аpаСеtа і іпоріпаят сгогиет ргоГего ".
To evaluate this legend, it is enough to remember that the trial of Metropolitan Pavel took place in April 1768, and Metropolitan. Sechenov died on December 11. 1767, next 4 months before the terrible confession, which foreshadowed his futile death.
"When leaving St. Petersburg, they gave M. Paul, at the will of the Empress, some money, including several thousand rubles. Paul did not accept, saying that it was fire. They sent them with a reliable person appointed to accompany the Metropolitan to Kyiv. There, the governor of the Lavra suggested to the saint: accept this gift, at least for the Holy Lavra: we will arrange on them something pleasing to God. Paul said: What will you do, Father, for this fire?
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to thrash, through fire, church chapters. Behold, Pavel answered. The money was accepted and used to gild the heads of the great church6.
In the archives of St. Synod there is no news of monetary awards upon the resignation of Metropolitan Pavel. Yes, this did not correspond to the personal attitude of the empress towards him, who was generally not generous with dismissed bishops. If Saint Tikhon of Voronezh, after a three-time request, was barely questioned for dismissal from the department, received only a modest pension of 500 rubles. With.; then why on earth should we assume special generosity towards M. Paul from the monarch, who considered him a persecutor, a fanatic and a person who, even after his dismissal, remained on trial? Moreover, the mention of the governor of the Lavra shows that the legend was already formed when the archimandriteship in the Lavra was united with the rank of Metropolitan of Kyiv. But when M. Pavel lived in the Lavra, the Lavra had a special archimandrite Zosima Walkevich, and he, of course, should have the honor of talking with M. Pavel about the Lavra’s structure.