to the blessedly reposed Sovereign Emperor Pavel Petrovich. The Lord Emperor submitted my petition to the Synod. Right The Synod, without knowing the consequences, I don’t know what it was based on, having discovered the hidden theft, I don’t know about it, because before it was filed, I didn’t. The Majesty was not subject to any fines, either through court or without trial - he ordered that he be deprived of his ranks and sent abroad; and in 797, innocently and cruelly punished, and since that time I have been wandering in foreign lands in a deplorable state without food. Upon entry, your Imp. Majesty to the All-Russian Imp. throne on the basis of the most merciful manifesto issued by V.I.V. on the forgiveness of crimes other than murder, therefore I, from those distant lands, undertook the most difficult journey to reach the capital city of St. Petersburg and, falling at the most sacred feet of V.I.V., I most reverently ask: having most graciously respected my innocent suffering and the most difficult path, most mercifully command St. Synod, so that it would bless me and allow me, and still appoint me to the monastery as one of the brethren. The package handed to me in Hungary in the name of the Most High V.I.V. from the Orthodox Rev. Bishop Bochkoy and Segedinsky hereby most reverently attaching, I am V.I.V.
all-subject former Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra hieromonk
Dometian, and now the unfortunate Dimitri Vladevich.
The Emperor was apparently disposed to indulgence and instructed St. synod to consider: does the request deserve attention and can it be satisfied without violating order and justice? But the synod for this rabbi remained with the previous resolution, entrusting the mntr. Ambrose to report to the sovereign about the case of Vladevich with that of St. the synod is of the opinion that it (i.e., the synod) and now cannot proceed with the return to him, Vladevich, of the hieromonastic order in accordance with the 12th rule of the local Antioch council, as well as in appointing him to that Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, as before, in order to avoid further worries from him.
Another four years passed. 22 Dec 1805 one of the members of St. Synod - it must be assumed that Ambrose, Metropolitan of St. Petersburg, received the following letter from the Montenegrin Metropolitan:
[fragment illegible in the scan of the first edition]
Most Holy Master, Gracious Sovereign and Archpastor!
The former Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Hieromonk Dometian Vladevich, who is my secretary, is a Montenegrin nobleman from his ancestors. Eight years ago, due to some unfortunate past adventures, he was dismissed from the Kyiv Lavra, and out of jealousy for the holy monastery he decided to endure sorrows, but according to his honest behavior and according to my note, he is not so guilty, he endures long-term sorrows; but his good behavior deserves respect and for his faithful service in my presence, relating to our Most High Court with considerable zeal, and His Imperial Majesty’s favor. We are based on a good conscience and good Christian behavior, and therefore, moreover, he, Vladevich, due to his most zealous commitment to our Highest Court and according to his ability in this region, was and is useful in the service of our Supreme Patron. And for this reason, I most humbly ask Your Holiness, do not leave the archpastoral permission to him, Dometian Vladevich, to do this. Also, according to Zelensky, his desire to be included in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, in his tonsure, is to be ordered - if you please. Show me and this people sensitive pleasure. However, entrusting to myself the archpastoral favor of Your Holiness, I am, with the deepest respect for Your Holiness, the most humble servant of the Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky's cavalier Petr Petrovich.
In Cetinje August 23, 1805
And this letter - in itself - had no success. But it is obvious that the sovereign received another—one must assume modern—petition from the Montenegrin metropolitan, and the sovereign, through his comrade in foreign affairs, Prince Adam Czartoryski, instructed the synodal chief prosecutor, Prince A. N. Golitsyn, to propose to St. synod to satisfy the request of the Montenegrin ruler. The Synod did not resist the royal will and on March 1, 1806, decided to allow the Montenegrin ruler to return D. Vladevich’s hieromonkhood with a nominal inclusion of him in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, but with a ban on ever entering Russia, and with remaining forever under the Montenegrin metropolitan.
F THE Kyiv DIOCESE IN THE XXIII CENTURY.