At the end of the meeting, member of the Society F.A. Gernovsviy made a report on two books on the history of the Orthodox East that had recently been published in Kyiv. One of them is the doctoral dissertation of the founding member and vice-president of the society I. I. Malyshevsky about the Alexandrian patriarch Meletius Pigas. Under this modest title is contained a complete outline—little known in Russian scholarship—of the history of the Orthodox East in the 17th century. Another book, published by Mr. Ternovsky himself, is a collection of acts of the Russian monastery on Leon (Greek, Slavic in 1873-77
and Moldavian), reporting other data on the history of legal customs of Svita Gora.
The meeting of the Society members on May 20 was dedicated to listening to the singer of ancient epics, peasant Basil Peter, who came from Olonets province for a pilgrimage. Shchegolenkov, who retold epics about Ilya Muromets, Duke Stepanovich and the dove. book, with significant variations against printed editions of epics.
At the 7th private meeting, held on September 16, member V.B. Antonovich reported details about the treasure found in Chernihiv by Samokvasov, including the remains of a noble person burned by funeral custom.
At the meeting on October 7th, member N.I. Petrov reported a statement he had found in the archives of the Kyiv Theological Academy, the statement of the Mezhigorsk abbot Theodosius Vaskovsky about the situation of the Kyiv townspeople before the Khmelnitsky war; the document was written on December 10, 1699. This abbot, as he himself writes in a statement, lived in Kyiv for sixty-four years and before his abbot he raised the children of Pan Bochkovsky in the Tyshkevich voivodeship. The old-timer abbot spreads the fact that the Kyiv artisans lived up to the Kyiv castle and did not have the right to use city land and hayfields, and if they used them, they paid taxes for it to the Dominican and Bernardine priests. In addition, the latter took other taxes from the city inhabitants. Hegumen Mezhigorsky, apparently, wanted to provide his monastery with the same advantages that Catholic monks enjoyed before Khmelnytsky (see appendix).
Following this, I. I. Petrov announced that he had found a Collection consisting of translated articles borrowed from the Greek patericons, which, among other things, contains questions from Antiochus to Athanasius the Great. The articles in the collection contain interesting poetic ideas about the afterlife.
On October 28, the third general meeting of the Society members took place, in the presence of outsiders. At this meeting, Dr. Member V.V. Andreev read an essay: “The boundaries of the historical world, states and cities in their consistent development.”
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The second message was made by I.P. Khrushchov and consisted of a story about pile buildings in Switzerland, which the author became familiar with on the spot.
The meeting on November 11 was devoted to the reading of Associate Member N.P. Za*deratsky about the Slavic holiday of Morana (winter, death). The author traced this holiday among the Indians, Germans, French and English, among the ancient and modern Greeks, Romans, etc., and dwelled on the details of its celebration among the Lusatians, Poles, Czechs, Moravans, and some South Slavs, and made some conclusions; The most important of them is that this holiday expressed the inseparable cult of fire and water, and that its meaning is exclusively pagan, and not Christian. The author then focused on the goddess Zhiva, the opposite of Moran, and attributed her to the witty, but unfounded inventions of the imagination of Slavic mythologists.
In this, the last meeting of 1873, the Nestor Society, by agreement with the founding members of the proposed historical society at the University of St. Vladimir, decided to declare to the University Council the desire of both societies to form one historical Society at the University, which petition, based on the Council’s proposal, was approved by the Minister of Breed Education in March 1874.
The meetings of the Society in the first half of 1874 (January 15, February 3, April 10, April 29 and May 20) were devoted partly to the continuation of previous readings (F. A. Ternovsky on Byzantine chronographs, N. GT. Zaderatsky on Slavic mythology), partly to new readings (N. I. Petrov’s reports on the manuscripts of the Church Archaeological Museum at the Kyiv D. Academy, F.A. Ternovsky about the traise supplied to Rod and Rozhanitsy), as well as a discussion of issues related to the necessary preparations for the archaeological congress in Kyiv, for which the Society served as an intermediary with individuals and other scientific societies taking part in the congress.