Another seven years passed, and the Montenegrin archimandrite Dometian Vladevich entered Kyiv. He was carrying with him a letter from the Minister of Police A. Balashov to the Kyiv Metropolitan. Seranion. The letter was as follows: "Your Eminence Vladyka! Gracious Sovereign! Archimandrite Dometian from the Black Mountains, who has shown his commitment to Russia, is leaving with the Highest permission to live in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. On this occasion, I received an order from the Sovereign Emperor to notify Your Eminence about this, and to inform that it is His will The Majesty is that Father Dometian be given both premises and contents appropriate to his rank, having the honor to fulfill the royal will, I humbly ask you to honor me with a notification, entrusting yourself and others to A. Balashov.
No. 31. Jan. 14, 1813. Headquarters, the town of Johannisburg in Prussia."
M. Seranion could only fulfill the highest will - to accept the archimandrite. Dometian for residence in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and ask St. Synod permission for the designated archimandrite to serve as priest.
The further fate of D. Vladevich is unknown to us. From the case it is only clear that since 1813 he received 300 rubles from the Kyiv treasury chamber. With. annual pension.
Some facts about the history of the death penalty in Russia.
Reading by A.F. Klstayuvsky.
The study of the history of the death penalty in the country, in addition to public interest, is of extremely important scientific importance.
How did it happen that Russia, a country in cultural terms that was once far inferior to the states of Western Europe and is still, although not to the same extent, inferior to them as how, I say, Russia could acquire fame in Europe as a country in which the death penalty was abolished in 1753, that is, earlier than any state thought about it, and even earlier than Beccaria first dared to scientifically prove the injustice, uselessness and inconsistency of this punishment. This is a question, the answer to which I will try to find in the history of the Russian death penalty.
And another no less important question appears to the mind of a historian of Russian criminal law, the question: can an impartial historical study confirm the conviction established in our country and in Europe that in our fatherland the death penalty was abolished, at least for general crimes, under the Empress Elizabeth, in the years from 1743 to 1753. A question of no small importance for the following reasons. On the one hand, thanks to the authority of Beccaria, who pointed out to Europe that Elizabeth had abolished the death penalty, the name of the Russians even in Europe established a reputation as a people who, since half of the last century, had eliminated the death penalty from their laws. On the other hand, people who follow the movement of historical
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science in Russia, the opinion of your historian of the 18th century has recently become known. Prince Shcherbatov, who wrote against Bekvari and even then expressed an opinion that had died out among superficial, albeit dominant, beliefs, and was far from agreeing with the generally accepted one, according to which the death penalty was abolished in our country for general crimes in half of the last century.
These are the questions that I intend, among other things, to resolve by presenting a general and brief historical outline of the death penalty in Russia.
What is the death penalty? This is a punishment consisting of taking away the life of the person who committed the crime in various ways.
Coming from this point of view, in the history of the world and our Russian I look for two types of the death penalty, and at the same time I divide its history into two periods. The period of the death penalty, carried out through private revenge, and the second period, the period of the death penalty, carried out by the activities of public and state authorities. In the first period, the death penalty is in the form of murder committed by a representative of the family and clan, in the form of private revenge. In the second period, the death penalty takes on the character of taking the life of a criminal, committed by a representative of the national government, in the form of public vengeance. In the first period, the death penalty is a semi-private, semi-public matter, regulated by custom. In the second, it is surrounded by strict formalities, and the most brutal antics of the period of vengeance are elevated throughout the entire period into rules consecrated by time and law.