MERRSU CONSISTENCY LIST

The following list gives the forms used in MERRSU, including hyphenation and capitalization.

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z 

A

Aaron (1688-1726?)

Aaron, secular name Andrew Zhukov (d. 1789), leader of Aaronites

Aaron Moriakin (1780-1844)

Aaron Nartsissov (1771-1841)

Aaron ben Meir of Brest, (d. 1807)

Aaron of Pinsk (d. 1841)

Aaronites

Abadzeg

Abbas I (1571-1629; r. 1587-1629)

abbot: there are several categories of abbot in the Russian Orthodox church:

archimandrite (arkhimandrit); hegumen (igumen); and others that may be named "father superior," "superior," or "abbot" (namestnik, nastoiatel', stroitel')

abdication of Nicholas II (2/15 March 1917)

Abdulhamid II (r. 1876-1909)

Abel (Vasily Vasilev) (1757-1841)

Abgar V (d. A.D. 56), king of Edessa

Abkhazians

about= c. with space after c. but no comma (c. 1406)

above-cited

Abraham (d. 1375)

Abraham-Abele Posveler (1764-1836)

Abraham ben Elijah (1750-1808)

Abraham ben Joseph Solomon (1792-1855)

Abraham ben Josiah (c.1685-c.1735)

Abraham ben Veniamin (d. 1700)

Abraham of Chukhloma (d. 1375)

Abraham of Rostov (Averky) (dates unknown)

Abraham of Smolensk (dates unknown)

Abraham Palitsyn. Secular name Averky Ivanovich Palitsyn (1555?-1626)

Abraham Baer Gottlober (1810-1899)

Abraham the Bulgar (d. 1229)

Abraham the Hegumen (d. 1092),

Abraham the Hermit (d. 1360)

Abraham, monk (Afanasy) (d. 1681?)

Abramowitsch, Shalom Moiseevich (1835-1917)

Abrikosova, Anna Ivanovna (1882-1936)

abroad: [Russian] Orthodox Church Abroad

Abstainers (trezvenniki)

Ac = Acts

Academy of Sciences.

acmeist

Acting Patriarch Sergius

acting patriarch (locum tenens)

Action Committee for Reunion with the Russian Orthodox Church

(Initsiativnaia gruppa po vossoedineniiu s Russkoi Pravoslavnoi Tserkov'iu)

Action Committee for Calling a Baptist Congress

Adalbert (d. 981)

adat: Muslim tribal law system, customary courts, common law

administrative staff (consistory) of the archbishop

Adrian, Patriarch (1627-1700; r. 1690-1700)

Adygei

Afanasy of Vologda (d. 1737)

Afanasy (Andrei), metr. of Moscow (r. 1564-1566) (d. after 1568)

Afanasy Filipovich (d. 1648)

Afanasy Liubimov, bishop of Kholmogory (1641-1702)

Afanasy Sakharov, 1887-1962

Agafangel Preobrazhensky (1854-1928)

Afanasy Mislavsky (d. 1714), abbot of Kievan caves, 1710-1714

Afanasy Volkovsky (d. 1776)

age-old

agitators-propagandists

Ahad Ha-am (pseudonym of Asher Hirsch Ginsburg) (1856-1927)

Ahura-Mazda

Aivazov, Ivan Georgievich (1872-1918?)

akathistos (plural, akathistoi); akathistos of the Holy Mother of God; Akathistos hymn

Akchurin, Sergei Vasilevich (1722-1790); procurator general, 1775-1786

Akchurin, Vasily Grigorievich (1689-1760)

Akchurin, Yusuf (1876-1935)

Akhmatov, Alexei Petrovich (1818-1870), procurator general, 1862-1865

Akhmatova, Anna (pseudonym of Anna Andreevna Gorenko) (1889-1966)

Akindin (d. 1164), abbot of Kievan caves monastery, 1156-1164

Akindin (d. 1231), abbot of Kievan caves monastery, 1214-1231

Aksakov, Ivan S. (1823-1886)

Aksakov, Konstantin Sergeevich (1817-1860)

al-Afghani, Jamal Ad-Din (1839-1897)

Alans

Albert of Riga (c.1165-1229)

Albertus Magnus (1193-1280)

Albigensian

Alesha , not Alyosha

Alexander I (1775-1825, r. 1801-1825)

Alexander II (1818-1881, r. 1855-1881)

Alexander III (1845-1894, r. 1881-1894)

Alexander Lyceum, the

Alexander Nevsky (1220-1263)

Alexander Nevsky Lavra

Alexander Paulus (1872-1953)

Alexander of Svir, Saint; (Amos Stefanovich) (1448-1533)

Alexander the Great (356-323 b.c.)

Alexander's Settlement (Aleksandrovskaia sloboda)

Alexander-Mariinsky ecclesiastical school

Alexander Zakke (or Zakis) (1834-1899)

Alexandra

Alexandra (Agafiia Simeonovna Belokopytova) (d. 1789)

Alexandrovich, Alexandrovna

Alexeev, Ivan (1718-1776), leader of "Novopomortsy"

Alexeevich, Alexeevna

Alexis (1298-1378), metropolitan of Kiev, 1353-1378

Alexis Alexeevich (d. 1676)

Alexis Dekhterev (1889-1959)

Alexis Gromadsky (1862-1943), archbishop

Alexis Mikhailovich (1629-1676, r. 1645-1676)

Alexis Petrovich (1690-1718)

Alexis II Ridiger (b. 1929), elected patriarch, 1990

Alexis I Simansky (1877-1970), patriarch of Moscow and all-Russia (r. 1945-1970)

Alexis, metropolitan of Moscow (r. 1355-1378)

Alexius I Comnenus (r. 1081-1118)

Alf, Gottfreid (1831-1898)

Ali (c.600-661)

Alimpy (d. 1859)

Alimpy Gusev

Alipy (1054?-1114?), alternative forms, Alimpy, Olimpy

Alipy Voronov (1914-1975)

Alkaveta

all: as prefix, usually takes hyphen

All Saints: the Sunday of All Saints

All-Night Vigil, the (vsenoshchnoe bdenie)

all-night vigil, an

all-Russia: of Moscow and all-Russia (hyphenated)

All-Russian Muslim Congress (13-23 January 1906 )

All-Russian Muslim League 117

All-Russian Teacher's Congress

All-Russian Union of Democratic Clergy and

Laity (ARUDCL); All-Russian Congress of Clergy and laity (4-12 June 1917)

all-Russian council

All-Ukrainian Orthodox Church Council

all-Ukrainian council

All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (AUCECB)

alleluia: "double" (sugubia) alleluia; "triple" (tregubaia) alleluia

Alliance Israelite Universelle

Almighty (Pantokrator), the.

Altai region

altar Gospel of 1571

Altaras, Jacob Isaac (1786-1873)

Alyosha, do not use; Alesha, instead

Amanor : beginning of the new year, called Amanor or Navasart.

Ambrose (1791-1863)

Ambrose Grenkov (1812-1891)

Ambrose Morev (r. 1828-1832)

Ambrose of Milan (c.339-397)

Ambrose Yushkevich (1690-1745)

Ambrose Zertis (1708-1771)

American Joint Distribution Committee

Anahit

analoi: icon stand

Anastasia (d. 1560), wife of Ivan IV

Anastasius of Mount Sinai (d. c.700)

Anatoly Vasilevich Lunacharsky (1875-1933)

anchorite (skhimnik)

anchoritic monasticism

Ancient Apostolic Church.

Ancient Church of the East

Ancient of Days, the

Andra

Andrei Bogoliubsky (b. 1111?, r. 1157-1174)

Andrei Rublev (c.1370-c.1430)

Andrei Sheptytsky (1865-1944) of Lviv

Andrei Ukhtomsky of Ufa (1872-1944?)

Andrew of Crete (c.660-740)

Andrew the First-called; Andrew the Baptizer of the Russian land.

Andronik (d. 13 June 1374)

Andropov, Yury, general secretary of the Communist party (1982-1984)

Andrusovo, treaty of .(1667)

angels: the neuter pronoun for angels is preferred

Anhelovych : Antin Anhelovych (1756-1814)

Anichkov, Dmitry Sergeevich (1733-1788)

Anna Ivanovna (r. 1730-1740)

Anna Kashinskaia

Anna Leopoldovna (1718-1746)

Annunciation: church of the Annunciation;

cathedral of the Annunciation; feast of the Annunciation; Annunciation of the Holy Virgin; Annunciation of the Most Holy Mother of God; Annunciation-in-Gorodische, church of the

Anserov, Pavel Alexandrovich (d. 1883)

Anthim (c.1701?-1757) 31

Anthony the Great of Egypt (c.251-356)

anti-Bolshevik propaganda

anti-Catholic

Antichrist : the Antichrist, kingdom of Antichrist

anti-Christian

anticommunist

Anti-Fascist Committee (AFC)

anti-Islamic

anti-Jewish

Antin Anhelovych (1756-1814), bishop of Przemysl

antinationalist

Antipa. Secular name Alexander Lukian (1816-1882)

antipatriarchal True Orthodox Christians

antiphons of degrees or ascents (antifony stepenny)

antireligious

antireligious campaign: Khrushchev antireligious campaign; antireligious propaganda.

Antireligioznik (The Antireligionist)

anti-Russian

anti-Soviet

Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public

(Antizionisticheskii komitet sovetskogo obshchestva)

antisectarian

antisemitism

antitsarist

Anton I (1721-1788), catholicos of Georgian Orthodox church, 1744-1755 and 1762-1788

Anton II (1764?-1827) catholicos of Georgian Orthodox church, 1788-1811

Antonin Granovksy (1865-1927)

Antony Klimov, d. 1876)

Antony Khrapovitsky (1863-1936)

Antony of Polotsk (r. 1568-1572), archbishop

Antony of the Caves (983?-1073?)

Antony Pelvetsky (d. 1957)

Antony Platkovsky (d. 1746)

Antony the Roman, Saint (d. 1147)

Antony Stakhovsky of Chernigov (d. 1740)

Antony Vadkovsky (1846-1912), (r. 1898-1912)

apocryphal Protoevangelium of James (c.150 a.d.)

Apollinarius (c.310-392)

Apollinary

Apollon Maikov (1821-1897)

apostle, the apostles, the twelve apostles;

but, the Apostle Andrew, and the church of the Twelve Apostles; church of the Holy Apostles in Salonika

Apostle Peter, the

Apostol: the Apostle (Apostol)

Apostolic Canons

Appearance (Znamenie) of the Virgin, cathedral of the

Apraksin,Stepan Fedorovich (1702-1758)

Arakcheev Cadet School in Nizhny Novgorod, the

Arakcheevshchina: "the dark era of Arakcheev"

Aramazd

Archangel Gabriel; Archangel Michael, cathedral of Archangel Michael

archbishop's household (arkhiereiskii dom)

archbishop: archbishop of Stanislav and Kolomyia; archbishop of Tobolsk

archimandrite

archpriest (protoierei)

Arethas of Najran (d. 523)

Argumenty i Fakty: (Arguments and Facts), no italics for periodical

Arkady Dorofeev (d. 1889), Belokrinitsa bishop

Arkady Shaposhnikov ( d. 1868)

Arkhangelsk; Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory: bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory

arkhiereiskii dom: archbishop's household

army: the Volunteer Army; White armies; the Red Army; the Soviet Army

Arseniev, Konstantin I. (1789-1865)

Arseniev, Konstantin K. (1837-1919).

Arsenius the Great (354-449).

Arseny (1797-1876), metropolitan of Kiev

Arseny Briantsev (1839-1914)

Arseny Matseevich (1696-1772)

Arseny Moskvin (1797-1876)

Arseny Stadnitsky (1862-1936) of Novgorod

Arseny the Deaf (Glukhoi, d. 1643),

Artavazd : the legendary King Artavazd

ascetic (podvizhnik)

assembly of the land (zemskii sobor)

Associations, law Concerning Religious, of 8 April 1929

AtatŸrk , Mustafa Kemal (1881-1938)

Atel, Victor (1890-1941)

Athanasius the Athonite (c.920-1003)

Athinogen

audio-visual equipment

Autocephalous Orthodox church of Poland

avant-garde

Avenarius, Richard (1843-1896)

Avgustin Peterson (1873-1957)

Avramov, Mikhail Petrovich (1670-1746)

Avvakum (1621-1682)

Axelrod, Pavel (1850-1928)

Azerbaijani Turks, Azerbaijanis, Azerbaijan SSR

B

b. = born

Bachynsky, Andrii (1732-1809),bishop of Mukachiv

Badmaev, Peter A. (1851-1919)

Bagrationi, John (1768-1830)

Baha-Ullah

bakalavr: docent, adjunct, instructor, assistant

Bakhchisarai

Bakunin, Mikhail (1814-1876)

Balaban, Gedeon (1530-1607)

Balasescu, Isaia , bishop in Bukovina (1823-1834)

Balikhin, Feodor P. (1854-1919)

Balfour Declaration

Balkans, the

Balsamon, Theodore (1105-1195)

band of hollow brickwork (porebrik)

Baptists: Union of Russian Baptists; Baptist Union of Germany

Baptist World Alliance

Barbara (Varvarskie) gates,the Saint

barmy: the mantle (barmy) worn by the Muscovite rulers on the day of their coronation.

baroque

Bartsh, Johann (1757-1821)

Barsanuphius, monastery of Saint (Varsonofievskii, closed 1764 )

Barudi, Alimjan (1857-1921)

Bashkiria

Basil II (r. 976-1025)

Basil the Great (329-379), of Caesarea

Basil the Holy Fool (d. 1552)

Basmachi: movement for the national liberation ofáTurkistan (Basmachi)

Basmanov, Ivan Fedorovich (d. 1603)

Bathory, Stefan (1533-1586)

battle of Borodino (26 August 1812), the;

Batu Khan (d. 1255)

Baturin, Nikolai Georgievich (1927-1988)

Bauer, Bruno (1809-1882)

Besht, pseudonym of Israel ben Eliezer (c.1700-1760)

Beatitudes, the

beginning of the new year, called Amanor or Navasart.

beglye popy: fugitive priests

begunets: runner, fugitive

beguny: Fugitives

Beheading of John the Baptist at Diakovo, church of the

Beijing, Russian ecclesiastical mission in Beijing

Beilis, Mendel (1874-1934)

Bekbulatovich, Simeon (1545?-1616 )

Belaia Krinitsa community, the

Belev

Belgrade (Yugoslavia)

Belgorod, bishop of Belgorod

Belobereg hermitage (pustyn)

Belokrinitsa (or Austrian) hierarchy

Belousov, Sergei Vasilevich (1882-1925)

Belsky, Bogdan (d. 1611)

Bely, Andrei (1880-1934)

Bendella, Teofil , metropolitan of Bukovina (Bendelia, 1873-1875)

Benjamin Aga ben Samuel (d. 1824),

Benois, Alexander (1870-1960)

Berdiaev, Nicholas (1874-1948)

Berezovsky, Maxim Sozontovich (1745-1777)

Bergelson, David (1884-1952)

Beria, Lavrenty P. (1899-1953)

Bering, Vitus (1681-1741)

Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)

Berthold (d. 1198), bishop

Beslenei

Bessarabia

bet ha-midrash, Jewish prayer and study house; the bet ha-midrash (seminary)

betrothal (obruchenie)

Beveridge,William, Bishop of Saint Asaph (1637-1708),

Bezbozhnik (The Atheist)

Bezbozhnik u stanka (The Atheist at the Workbench)

bezpopovtsy: priestless (bezpopovtsy) Old Believers; "bezpopovtsy" may be used in text

Bible of Prague, 1488

biblical

Bichurin, Nikita (1777-1853), monk Yakinf

Bigi, Musa Jarullah (1875-1949)

Biliansky, Peter (1736-1798)

bimonthly

Birobidzhan.Jewish Autonomous Region (Evreiskaia avtonomnaia oblast')

Birobidzhan State Theater

Biron, Ernst (in German, BŸhren) (1690-1772)

Bironovshchina: German Yoke

bishops' council (arkhierskii sobor)

bishop's pallium (omofor)

bishop: bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory; bishop of Belgorod; bishop of Chigirin;

Bismarck, Otto von (1815-1898)

Blachernae. Virgin of Blachernae (Blacherniotissa)

Black Hundreds

Black Lake (Chernoe ozero)

Black Sea

black and white illustration

black years for Soviet Jews (1948-1953)

blagochestivyi: pious:

blagochinnyi: dean

Blagoveshchenie ustiuzhskoe: Ustiug Annunciation

Blanc, Louis (1811-1882)

Blazhevych, Teoktyst, metropolitan of Bukovina (1877-1879)

Blessed Virgin Mary

Blok, Alexander (1880-1921)

Blokhin, Andrei Ivanov (1742-?)

bloodthirsty

Bloody Sunday (9 January 1905)

boards, Muslim ecclesiastical (dukhovnye upravleniia musul'man):

Ufa, the European part of USSR and Siberia (Sunnite, Hanafi rite); Tashkent, Uzbek, Kirghiz, Turkmen, Tajik and Kazakh SSRs (Sunnite, Hanafi rite); Makhchkala for Daghestan (Sunnite, Shafei rite); and Baku for Sunnite and Shiite Muslims of Transcaucasia.

Bobrinsky, Count Alexis Pavlovich (1826-1890)

bogatyr, translate epic here (bogatyr')

Bogdanov, Alexander Alexandrovich (Alexander Alexandrovich Malinovsky), 1873-1928

bogoiavlenskii . Epiphany

Bogoliubov, Dmitry (1869-1953)

bogoliubtsy. 'God-lovers"

Boiarsky, Alexander I. (1888-1946)

Boldyrev, A.V. (1780-1842)

Boleslaus (c.966-1025)

Bolshevik coup in Petrograd, the

Boltin, Ivan (dates unknown), first procurator general of the Holy Synod

Bonch-Bruevich, Vladimir Dmitrievich (1873-1955)

Bondar, Semen Dmitrievich (fl. 1910-1916)

Bondarenko, Ivan Ivanovich (d. 1948?)

bonnet-shaped ogees (kokoshniks)

Book About the Faith

Book of Cyril (Kirillovskaia kniga, 1644)

Book of Degrees (Stepennaia kniga); Book of Degrees

of the Imperial Genealogy (Stepennaia kniga tsarskogo rodosloviia)

Book of Profound Wisdom or Book of the Dove (Golubinaia kniga)

Book of the Kahal (Kniga kagala)

book-keeper (bukhgalter)

Boris and Gleb (d. 1015)

Boris Godunov (r. 1598-1605)

Borovitsy

Bortniansky, Dmitry Stepanovich (1751-1825)

Bosmanov, Ivan Fedorovich (d. 1603)

boiarin noble, nobleman; spelled "boyar" if the word is used in text

boiarskie deti: minor nobility

Brafman, Jacob (c.1825-1879)

Bratskoe slovo (Fraternal Word)

Bratsky vestnik (Fraternal Herald)

Braun, Jacob (1791-1868)

Brest, council of (1596); Union of Brest (1596)

Brethren of the Sword (Fratres Militiae Christi), the

Brezhnev, Leonid (1906-1982)

Bright Monday, the day after Easter

British and Foreign Bible Society

Briusov, Valery (1873-1924)

broad-based

Bronfman, Edgar (b. 1929)

brotherhood of the Holy Cross

Bruno Bauer (1809-1882)

Bubi, Abdullah (1871-1922)

Budberg, Andrei F. (1820-1881)

Buddeus, Johann (1667-1729)

Budkiewicz, Constantine (1867-1923)

Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich (1888-1938)

bukhgalter. book-keeper

Bukovina

Bulatovich, Alexander Ksaverievich (1870-1919)

Bulavin revolt in 1707-1708

Bulgakov, Afanasy Ivanovich (1859-1907)

Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasievich (1891-1940)

Bulgakov, Sergius Nikolaevich (1871-1944)

Bulhak, Josephat (1758-1838)

Bumilev, Nikolai (1886-1921)

Buturlin, Alexander Borisovich ( 1694-1767)

Butyrka prison hospital, the

byliny: heroic epics, if used in text, do not italicize

Bzhedug

Byzantine emperors:

Leo III (r. 717-741), Constantine V (r. 741-775), Leo IV (r. 775-780), Constantine VI (r. 780-797), Leo V (r. 813-820), Michael II (r. 820-829), Theophilus.(r. 829-842)

C

Cadet Infantry Corps school

Calif.: California

candidate (kandidat), candidate's degree

Carthage, council of (401)

Cathedral Square

cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Kiev; cathedral of the Dormition

Catherine I (1684-1727,(r. 1725-1727)

Catherine II (1729-1796, r. 1762-1796)

Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

Catholic College: the Roman Catholic College in St. Petersburg.

Catholic-dominated region

Catholicism

catholicos, Armenian:

Khoren (r. 1932-1937), Kevork (r. 1945-1954), Vazgen (r. 1955- )

catholicos-patriarch, the Georgian Orthodox church:

Kirion III (r. 1917-1918). (1918-1921), Ambrose (1921-1927), Khristofor III (1927-1932) Kallistrat (1932-1952), Melkhisedek III (r. 1952-1960), Efrem II (1960-1972), David V (1972-1977), Ilya II (elected 1977)

Caucasus, the

cave monastery of Kiev

Caves Patericon : the Kievan Caves Patericon

caves: the Near Caves or the caves of Saint Antony

cellarer (storehouse manager)

Central Asia

central committee of the CPSU, (not capitalized)

Chagall, Marc, (1887-1985)

Charlemagne (742?-814)

Charter of the Nobility (1785)

Chebyshev, Peter Petrovich, procurator general, 1768-1774

Chechen-Ingush ASSR

Cheka (political police)

Cheremyss

Cherkassky, Prince Alexis Mikhailovich (1680-1742)

Cherkess

Cherniaev, General Mikhail G.(1828-1898)

Chernobyl

Chertkov, Vladimir G. (1854-1936)

"Cherubim Song" (Kheruvimskaia pesn')

Chicherin, Georgi (1872-1936)

Chigirin: bishop of Chigirin

children: refer to them by the family name, not Christian name.

Chodkiewicz, Jan

Chortitsa, use Khortitsa

chosen thousand (izbranaia tysiacha)

Christ Enthroned

Christ-faith (khristovshchina)

Christ-killer

Christ-loving

Christian Brotherhood of the Struggle

Christian Church, the

chronicle, the: the Russian Primary Chronicle (not italicized)

Chrysostom, Saint John(344-407)

Chrysoberges, Luke (r. 1156-1169); patriarch of Constantinople

chtets: reader

Chudov: monastery of the Miracle (Chudov),

Church Censorship Administration (Dukhovnoe tsenzurnoe upravlenie)

Church Slavonic

church council (sobor); church council of 1666-1667

church-going

church-sponsored antisemitism

church-state relationship

Church: capitalized:

Ancient Apostolic Church; Ancient Church of the East; Church of Regeneration; Christian Church; Church Universal; Orthodox Church Abroad; Orthodox Church of America

church: not-capitalized:

Russian Orthodox church; church of Christ the Savior ; church of the Holy Sepulcher; church of the Intercession (Pokrov); church of the Presentation; church of Saint Andrew in Kiev

Churikov, 'Brother" Ivan (Ioann) A. (1862-1930)

Chuvash

Chwolson, Daniel (1819-1911)

Cicero (d. 43 b.c.)

Cieplak, Jan (1857-1926) auxiliary bishop

Cilicia, Armenian kingdom of (1080-1375)

Cisbaikal

city assembly (veche)

Ciupercovici, Arcadie, metropolitan of Bukovina, 1896-1902

civil councils (zemstvos)

civil war (1917-1921)

Clement XI (r. 1700-1721)

Clement XIV (r. 1769-1774)

Clement of Alexandria (c.155-c.220)

clergy: white: (secular, parish);

ordained (sviashchennosluzhitel'):, deacon (diakon), priest (ierei, sviashchennik), archpriest, (protoierei); unordained: sexton, sacristan (diachok, ponomar, tserkovnsluzhitel', prichetnik), reader (chtets) and cantor (psalmoshchik); black: (monastic); ordained: monastic priest, hieromonk, ieromonakh, monastic deacon, hierodeacon, ierodeakon)

clerics (mullahs), Muslim

coactors

codefendants

coexist

col. ; cols.: = column(s)

cold war

College of Foreign Affairs

Colonel General

commander in chief

Commissariat for Education

Commissariat of Justice

Commission for Ecclesiastical Schools (Komissiia dukhovnykh uchilishch)

Commission for the Scholarly Publication of the Slavonic Bible (1915-1927)

Commission on Church Schools.

Committee for Aid to the Starving (Pomgol)

Committee for Review of the Jewish Question

Committee for the Defense of the Rights of Muslim Turko-Tatar Peoples of Russia

Committee of Ministers (komitet ministrov)

Common Menaion (Obshchaia meneiia)

common life (coenobium), the

Communist Youth League (komsomol)

communist (as general adjective)

Communists (when referring to the party and party members); local Communists

Concerning Religious Associations, law, of 8 April 1929

Confederation of Livonia

Confederation of Warsaw (1573)

Congregation of the Most Holy Trinity

Congregation of the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God

Congress of Berlin (1878)

Congress of Vienna

Consecrated Ecclesiastical Council (dukhovnyi osviashchennyi sobor)

consistory: administrative staff (consistory) of the archbishop

Constantine, use Konstantin for all Muscovite and later Russian figures, except for Constantine Pavlovich and Constantine Nikolaevich.

Constantine (c. 274-337; r. 312-337)

Constantine Nikolaevich, Grand Duke (1827-1892)

Constantine V (r. 741-775), Constantine VI (r. 780-797), Constantine (c.960-1028)

Constantine Constantinovich of Ostrih (Ostrozhsky, 1526-1608).

Constantine Ivanovich of Ostrih (Ostrozhsky, c.1460-1530)

Constantine Porphyrogenitus (r. 908-959)

constituent assembly (5/18 January 1918)

Constitutional Democratic party (Kadet)

convent: convent of the Dormition. ; convent of the Presentation (sretenie)

Coolidge, Calvin (1923-1929)

Copernicus, Nicholas (1473-1543)

coreligionist

cossack: a (the) cossack; the Don Cossacks, the Ural Cossacks; Zaporozhe Cossacks

Cotlarciuk, Nectarie, metropolitan of Bukovina (1925-1935)

Council for Religious Affairs (CRA)

Council for Religious Cults

Council for Russian Orthodox Church Affairs (CROCA).

Council of Churches of Evangelical Christians-Baptists (CCECB)

Council of Lyons, second (1724)

Council of Ministers

Council of People's Commissars (Sovet narodnykh kommissarov, SNK)

council (sobor)

council of the Hundred Chapters (Stoglav)

Counterreformation; the Catholic Counterreformation

counterreformationist

counterrevolutionary

countrywide

cover-up

coworker

CPSU

CrŽmieux, Adolphe (1796-1880)

Crimean khan

Crimea, annexation of the (1783)

Crimean War (1853-1856)

cross-examination

cross-shaped comet

crowning (venchanie)

cube-shaped church

culture-bearers

Cyprian , use Kiprian

Cyril, metropolitan of Kiev (r. 1243-1280)

Cyril Book=Book of Cyril (Kirillovaia kniga)

Cyril Florinsky (d. 1744)

Cyril Lucaris (1572-1638)

Cyril monastery of the White Lake (Belozersk)

Cyril of Alexandria (d. 444)

Cyril of Jerusalem (315-386)

Cyril of Kazan, Metropolitan (d. 1944)

Cyril, Metropolitan (r. 1243-1280)

Cyril, Saint (826-869)

Czartorysky, Adam (1770-1861)

D

d'iachok: sexton

Daghestan, Daghestanis,Daghestan ASSR

Daniel Bitiukovsky (1763-1811)

Daniel Cherny (1360?-1430?)

Daniel Mirdamsky (r. 1806-1813),

Daniel of Bessarabia

Daniel of Moscow and all-Russia (1492-1547)

Daniel, not Daniil; monasteryof Saint Daniel (Danilov monastyr')

dar-ul-Islam (the lands of Islam)

Datsko, Pavel Iakovlevich (1884-1941)

David (d. 1321)

David IV the Builder (1089-1125)

day, saint's: do not capitalize 'day;"

Saint Nicholas' day (9 May); Saint Peter's day (29 June); Saint George's day (26 November)

Dazhbog

de jure

de Maistre, Joseph

de Rouvroy, Louis (1675-1755)

Deacon Fyodor (d. 1682)

Deacon's Responses (Diakonovy otvety, 1719)

dean (blagochinnyi); dean (nastoiatel)

death-bed

Decembrist uprising, 14 December 1825

decision-making

deep-seated

deesis. prayer tier (or row)

de facto

degree: candidate in Theological Sciences; master's (magister)

deification (Russian, obozhenie; Greek, theosis or theopoesis)

deist

Deliakov, Yakov D. (1829-1898)

Demetre I (1125 -1256), Georgian king

Demetrius: Saint Demetrius monastery

Demetry of Soluna (Dmitry Solunsky)

Democratic Reform, party of: liberal party begun by K.K. Arseniev, inter alia

Denikin, General Anton I. (1872-1947)

Denisov, Andrei (1672-1730) and Semen (1682-1741)

Department of Religious Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (tsarist)

Der Nister (1848-1950)

Derevensky bezbozhnik (The Village Atheist)

Derzhavvin, Gavrila Romanovich (1743-1816)

Descent of the Virgin into Hell, (Khozhdenie Bogoroditsy po mukam)

dessiatine = 2.7 acres

d'Herbigny, Bishop Michel (1880-1957)

diak: state secretary

Diaspora, the (when referring to Jews)

Dibich-Zabalkansky, Ivan Ivanovich (1785-1831)

Diderot (1713-1784)

died: d. (d. 1320)

diocese:

diocese of Leningrad and Novgorod; diocese of Nizhny Novgorod ; diocese of Tula and Belev; diocese of Voronezh and Zadonsk

Diocletian (r. 284-305)

Diodore

Dionisy (r. 1581-1586), metropolitan of Moscow

Dionisy (1570?-1633)

Dionisy of Suzdal (r. 1374-1385)

Dionisy Zbyruisky (Sbiruisky, d. 1604)

Dionisy (dates unknown)

Dionysus of Alexandria (d. c.264)

Dionysios of Constantinople

Dionysius the Less (Exiguus)

Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881)

district (raion )

district committees (raikom)

Ditton, Humphry (1675-1715)

Div of the Lay of Igor's Campaign,

Divine Wisdom (Hagia Sophia)

divinely-inspired leader

Dmitry

Dmitry Ivanovich (1581-1591), canonized, 1606

Dmitry, False, first (1582-1606) (r. 1605-1606)

Dmitry Donskoy (1350-1389, r. 1359-1389)

Dmitry Muretov (1811-1883), archbishop of Kherson

Dmitry of Prilutsk

Dmitry of Rostov (1651-1709)

Dmitry of Tushino, false

Dmitry Sechenov (1709-1767)

Dmitry Solunsky (Demetry of Soluna)

Dmitry Sulima (d. 1844) abp. of Kishinev

Dmitry Tuptalo (d. 1709)

Dnieper river

Dniester river

Dobruja

Dobrynin, Nikita (Pustosviat, d. 1682); Nikita the Hypocrite (Pustosviat)

docent: instructor

doctor of Theological Sciences

Dolgoruky, Princess Elena Vladimirovna (b. 1632)

Domenti III (r. 1705-1725, 1739-1741)

domestic churches (domovye tserkvi)

Dominican (1216)

Don Cossack region

Don monastery

Dondukov-Korsakov, Prince A.N. (1820-1890)

Dormition brotherhood of Lviv (1586-1788)

Dormition, cathedral of the

Dormition monastery in Pozhaitsk

Dosifei Glebov, archbishop of Rostov (d. 1718)

Dositheus, patriarch of Jerusalem (1663-1707)

Dostoevsky, Fedor (1821-1881)

double-headed

Dov Baer of Mezhirech (d. 1772)

Dragomirnu

Dragunsky, David (b. 1910)

Dresden bible c. 1380

dual Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, 1817-1824

Dukhobors

dukhovnik. spiritual father

dukhovnye upravleniia musul'man: Muslim ecclesiastical boards

dukhovnye stikhi: religious verses

dukhovnyi osviashchennyi sobor: Consecrated Ecclesiastical Council

dukhovnyi: in proper names, usually "ecclesiastical";

dukhovnaia akademiia: ecclesiastical academy; Dukhovnyi reglamen: Ecclesiastical Regulation

Duma: the Duma, the Third Duma (1907-1912)

dvoeverie: dual faith

dvorianstvo. nobles

dvuperstnoe znamenie: two-finger sign of the cross

E

East, the; the Orthodox East, the modern Muslim East; the Greek East

East Germany

Easter Sunday

Easter Week

eastern church, the

eastern Europe, eastern Russia

Eastern Old Ritualist Church without Ecclesiastical Hierarchy (Riga)

Eastern Orthodoxy

Eastern Question, the

Eastern Rite Catholic (Uniate); but Eastern rite (when not naming religion or believers)

Ecclesiastical College

Ecclesiastical Conciliar Government (Dukhovnoe sobornoe pravitel'stvo)

ecclesiastical mission, in Beijing

Ecclesiastical Regulation the (1721)

ecclesiastical board of Transcaucasia

Echmiadzin

Economy College (Kollegiia ekonomii)

ecumenical : first ecumenical council of Nicea (325);

II. Constantinople (381); III. Ephesus (431); IV. Chalcedon (451); V. Constantinople II (553); VI (Constantinople III, 680-681); VII (Nicaea II, 787); also the Quinisextum council at Constantinople (692); (Constantinople, 869-870)

ed.; eds.: editor(s)

edinoglasie: "single-voicedness"

edinoverie . "single faith"

Efes Damim (1883)

Efim (d. 1792), founder of Old Believers sect of Fugitives, Wanderers

Efimovskaia, Countess E.V., 1850-1925

Efrem (Russian)

Egeruki

Ehrenburg, Ilya (1891-1967)

Eichmann, Adolph (1906-1962)

Eideman, Robert (1895-1937)

Eikhenbaum, Boris (1886-1959)

Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)

Eisenstein, Sergei (1898-1948)

Ekaterinoslav, diocese of (originally called Slaviansk diocese)

ekonom: steward

elder (starets)

eldership (starchestvo)

Elevation of the Cross, cathedral of the

eleventh-century Rus

Elevfery of Vilnius, Bishop

Eliezer, Israel ben (c. 1700-1760)

Elisavetgrad, Kherson province

Elisei Pletenetsky (d. 1624), archimandrite of Kievan caves monastery, 1605-1624

Elizabeth Petrovna (r. 1741-1762), empress

Elizaveta

ŽmigrŽ

emir: Muslim governor (emir)

Encratites

Endeka, Archpriest Alexander Pavlovich (executed in 1929)

enkolpion: pectoral icon

Enlightener (Prosvetitel'), the, by Joseph Sanin

Enlightenment: the Enlightenment

en masse (no ital.)

Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem

Ephraim the Syrian (d. 373)

Ephrem the Less (d. c.1100)

epic hero (bogatyr')

Epifany Slavinetsky (d. 1675)

Epifany the Wise (d. 1419?)

epistles, the (not capitalized when referring generally to parts of the NT)

epitrakhil': stole, bishop's stole

Erakle II (1720-1798)

Eretz Israel (the land of Israel)

Erevan: use Yerevan

Eristov, Varlam (d. 1830)

Erlich, Henryk (1821-1941)

Ermolov, Alexis (1777-1861)

Esenin, Sergei (1895-1925)

eternal memory (vechnaia pamiat')

Eucharist, the

eucharistic

Eudoxia (d.152); saint

Eusebius (c.265-c.339)

Eustratius of Nicaea (c.1100)

Euthymius of Mount Athos (d. 1028)

Euthymius, patriarch of Const (1410-1416)

Eutropius (d.c.399)

Evangelical Christians-Baptists

Evangelical: Union of Evangelical Christians

Evangelical Union, Swiss-based

Evdokiia Feodorovna Lopukhin (1669-1731);

Evdokim Meshchersky (1869-1935)

Evdoky

Evfimy (d. 1792)

Evfimy of Novgorod, Archbishop (r. 1434-1458)

Evfimy Viazhitsky (r. 1434-1458)

Evfimy-Savior monastery (Spaso-Evfimiev), Suzdal, (Saint)

Evlavia, catholicos (r. 552-560)

Evlogy

Evlogy Georgievsky (1868-1946), metropolitan

Evrei (Jew)

Evstraty

eyewitness

Eynikeyt (Unity), Yiddish periodical

F

fairy tale

faith : Book About the Faith

Faizabad, district of

Fakhreddin, Rizaeddin (1855 or 1858-1936)

Fall, the: in Eden

Far Caves (sometimes called the Feodosy Caves)

Far East: Soviet Far East, the Far East

far-fetched

far-reaching, far-reaching effect

fascist

Fath Ali Akjundzade (1812-1878)

Fatima (c.605-633)

feast-day tier

feast: feast of Epiphany ;

feast of the Baptism of the Lord ; feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin; feast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Mother of God

Fedor Alexeevich (r. 1676-1682)

Fedor Ivanovich (1557-1598, r. 1584-1598)

Fedor Nikitich Romanov (1553?-1633)

Fedor Rostislavich ("the Black," d. 1299)

Fedorov, Ivan Fedorovich (d. 1583)

Fedorov, Leonid (1879-1935)

Fedosians (fedoseevtsy)

Fefer, Itzik (1900-1952)

Feldman, Boris (1890-1937)

Feodosy (c.1470-early 1500s)

Feodosy of the Caves (c.1036-1074)

Feodosy (d. 1156), abbot of Kievan caves monastery, 1142-1156

Feodosy Vasiliev (d. 1711)

Feodosy Yanovsky of Novgorod (r. 1721-1725) (d. 1726)

Feofan Prokopovich (1681-1736).

Feofil Pashkovsky (b. 1874), metropolitan

Feofilakt Lopatinsky (d. 1741), archbishop

Feofilakt Rusanov (1765-1821)

Feoktist

Feoktist (d. 1120), abbot of Kievan caves monastery, before 1108?-1112

Ferdinand (r. 1835-1848); Emperor

Fetler, William (1883-1957)

Feuerbach, Ludwig (1804-1872)

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814)

Filaret (1553?-1633, r. 1619-1633)

Filaret Amfiteatrov (1779-1857, archbishop of Kaluga (r. 1819-1825)

Filaret Drozdov (1782-1867), metropolitan of Moscow (r. 1821-1867)

Filaret Gumilevsky (1805-1866)

Filaret of Kiev (b. 1929)

Filaret of Minsk (b. 1935)

Filaret of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh (r. 1658-1671)

filioque: western filioque in the creed

Filipp (1507-1569), metropolitan of Moscow (r. 1566-1568)

Filipp, metropolitan of Moscow (r. 1464-1473)

Filippovites (filippovtsy)

Filofei of Pskov (d. 1542)

Filofei Polev (d. 1561)

Filofei Leshchinsky (1650-1727)

Finno-Ugric

first Five Year Plan

Fishman, Yakov (d. 4 June 1983)

Five Year Plan, the first Five Year Plan (1928-1932)

Flagellants (Khlysty)

Flavian

flesh-and-blood

Flor, Saint , monastery of (Florovskii monastyr')

Florence, council of (1438-1439)

Florensky, Pavel Alexandrovich (1882-1943?)

Florinsky, Cyril (d. 1744)

follow-up (adj.)

fool for the sake of Christ (iurodivyi Khrista radi)

foot = .3 meter

forbidden books (otrechennyia knigi)

Forpost (1936-1938)

Foty (d. 1431)

Foty Spassky (1792-1838), archimandrite.

Foty Tappiro (1884-1952), bishop

Foty the Greek (r. 1409-1410)

Foty, metropolitan of Kiev (d. 1431),

four-footed beasts

four-pointed cross

Fourier,Charles (1772-1837)

fourth-year student

fractions: not hyphenated, one fourth, one third, one half, two thirds

Francis I (1494-1547) of France

Francis I (1768-1835) of Austrian empire (he was Francis II as Holy Roman emperor)

Frank, Semen L. (1877-1950)

Frederick II (1194-1250; r. 1212-1250) emperor

Frederick II (r. 1740-1786), king of Prussia

freethinkers ,freethinking

free-wheeling

Freemasonry

Free Russian Orthodox Church (Svobodnaia Rossisskaia Pravoslavnaia Tserkov')

Friedrich-Wilhelm of Courland (d. 1711), duke

Fugitives, or "Wanderers" (beguny, stranniki)

full-blown

full-time

Fumasoni-Biondi, Mgr. Pietro (r. 1922-1933)

fund-raising

Fundamentals of Scientific Atheism (Osnovy nauchnogo ateizma)

G

Gabriel of Kiev, (1770-1783)

Gabriel Petrov, metropolitan of Novgorod and St. Petersburg (1730-1801)

Gafuri, Majit (1880-1934)

Gagarin, Ivan Sergeevich (1814-1882)

Galich: metropolis of Halych (established 1303)

Galich lake

Galuppi, Baldassare (1706-1785)

Gapon: Father Georgy Gapon (1870-1906)

Gasparri , Cardinal Pietro (1914-1930)

Gaspirali, Ismail Bey (1851-1914)(Gasprinsky)

Gavriil, use Gabriel

Gatchina estate

Gedeon

Gedeon, metropolitan of Kiev (d. 1690)

Gedeon Balaban (1530-1607)

Gedeon Krinovsky (d. 23 June 1763)

Gedimin, Prince (1315-1341)

Gelasius I, Pope (r. 492-496)

Genghis Khan (1167?-1227)

Gennady (d. 1506); metropolitan

George XII (1746-1800)

Georgia:

east Georgia kingdoms=Kartli and Kakheti; west Georgia=Imereti; Kutatis=capital of Imereti; Telavi=capital of Kakheti; Mtskheta=ancient capital of Kartli; Tiflis (now Tbilisi)=capital of Kartli and united Georgia

Georgian Orthodox church

Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, the

Georgievsk: treaty of Georgievsk (1783)

Georgy Dashkov of Rostov (d. 1739)

Georgy Vsevolodovich (1189-1238)

Gerasim Lenkov (d. 1559)

German Enlightenment the

German Yoke or "Bironovshchina"

Germogen, patriarch (r. 1606-1612)

German, monk (1756-1837)

German Kontsevich (d. 1735)

Germogen, patriarch (r. 1606-1611)

Geronty, Metropolitan (r. 1473-1489)

Gershenzon, Mikhail (1869-1925)

getman: may be translated "commander" or used as part of title: Hetman Mazepa

Gevorg IV, Armenian catholicos, 1866-1882

Giray, Haji Khan (d. 1466)

glasnost: policy of openness (glasnost)

Glebov, Alexander (1717-1790)

gnostics

God-bearer (Bogonosets)

God-fearing

God-seekers

Godunov,Boris (1551-1605); tsar (r. 1598-1605)

Gogol, Nikolai (1809-1852)

going to the people: populist "going to the people" movement

Golda Meyerson (later Meir, 1898-1978)

Golden Gate

Golden Horde, the

Goliaev, Ilia A. (1859-1942)

Golitsyn, Alexander N. (1773-1844), (procurator general, 1803-1817)

Golovin , Fedor (1650-1706)

Golubinaia kniga: Book of Profound Wisdom or Book of the Dove

Golubinsky, Evgeny Evstigneevich (1834-1912)

Golubkina , Anna (1864-1927)

Good Friday

Gorbachev, Mikhail (b. 1931)

Gorbachev-sponsored

Gorky, Maxim (1868-1936)

gospel : the Gospel

(evangelie, capitalized when referring to an edition of the NT or part of liturgy or Christian doctrine); the gospels (not capitalized when referring generally to the first four books of NT); the gospel of Saint Matthew

Gospel, altar

Gottlober, Abraham Baer (1810-1899)

Governing Senate

governor general

governors general or viceroys (namestniki)

grass roots

grease-stained piece

Great Lent

Great Litany, the

Great Menaion (Velikie cheti-minei), the;

Great Menology (Liturgical Handbook) of Metropolitan Makary (1552)

Great Northern War,the

Great Panagia Virgin

Great Patriotic War

Great Saturday

Great Soviet Encyclopedia

Great Vespers

great-grandfather

great-grandson

Greek war of independence (1821-1830)

Gregory IX, pope (r. 1227-1241)

Gregory of Nazianzus (c.330-c.390)

Gregory of Nyssa (330-c.395)

Gregory Palamas (c.1296-1359)

Gregory the Great (540-604)

Gregory (Grigor) the Illuminator (c.240-332)

Gregory the Theologian of the ninth century

Grigory

Grigory Chukov (1870-1955), metropolitan

Grigory Zakaliak (d. 1984), archbishop

Grodno

Gromyko, Andrei (1909-1989)

Grotius, Hugh (1583-1645)

Group of Thirty-two

Gruzenberg, Oscar Osipovich (1866-1940)

Gubeydulla, (Ubeydulla, b. 1865)

Gudziszki : Polish Old Believer council of Gudziszki in 1751

Gulistan, treaty of (1813)

guilt-ridden

Gulak, Nikolai Ivanovich (1822-1899)

Gumilev, Nikolai (1886-1921)

Gumilevsky, Alexander (1830-1869), priest

Gury of Kazan

Gury, Saint (d. 1561)

Guslitsy

H

Hackmann, Eugen, bishop of Bukovina (1835-1873)

hadith (sayings and customs of Muhammed)

Hagia Sophia, Divine Wisdom

Haji Giray (d. 1466)

hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca), no italics

hakham (Hebrew, sage)

halakhah (law)

half brother

half sister

half-hearted

half-length

half-naked

Halych , metropolis of (established 1303)

handbook for icon painters (Ikonopisnyi podlinnik)

Harpe, Cesar la (1754?-1838)

Hartwig, archbishop of Bremen (served 1185-1207)

haskalah: the (Jewish) enlightenment era (haskalah) in Russia

Hasan (624-680)

hasidism, hasidic Jews

Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (1542-1620)

head-on

heart-breaking

Heavenly Queen

Hegel , Georg W. F. (1770-1831),

Hegesippus of Rome (second century)

hegumen (igumen)

Helena (c. 248-c. 327)

Herbest, Benedict (1530-1593)

Herescu, Dositei bishop of Radauti (1750-1789)

hermitage, skete (skit)

heroic epics (byliny)

Herzen, Alexander (1812-1870)

Herzl, Theodor (1860-1904)

hesychasm

Hesychius (d. 311?)

hierodeacon (ierodiakon) a monk who is a deacon

hieromonk (ieromonakh) a monk who is a priest; monastic priest, monk-priest

high-level

high-rises

high-sounding principles

high-water mark

Higher Church Administration (Vysshee tserkovnoe upravlenie)

Higher Church Council (Vysshii tserkovnyi sovet)

highest-ranking hierarchs

Hilarion (r. 1051-1054)

Hilarion Negrebetsky (d. 1740), abbot of Kievan caves, 1737-1740

Hippius, Zinaida (1869-1945)

Hippolytus (170-235)

Historical Museum (Moscow)

History of Religion and Atheism, museum of the

Hodigitria, the pointing Virgin

Holy City, the

Holy Communion

Holy Cross, brotherhood of the; monastery of the Holy Cross

Holy Host (Sviashchennaia druzhina)

Holy Land, the

Holy Martyr

Holy Mountain (Athos), the

Holy of Holies, the

Holy Scriptures

Holy Spirit

Holy Synod (Sviateishii sinod); Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox church

Holy Week

Holy Wisdom, cathedral of, in Kiev, Constantinople

holy fool: "fool for the sake of Christ" (iurodivyi Khrista radi)

hometown

Horde: the Tatar Horde

Hugh of Lincoln (1246-1255)

Husayn (626-680)

I

Iasi: see jassy

Iason: thus because the first letter is "I" not "ya"

ibid. not italicized

Ibragimov, Abdurresid (1853?-1944)

Ibrahim(0v), Vel, (d. 1928)

icon of the Blessed Lady of Vladimir, the; the icon of the Mother of God of Kherson

icon painter, icon painting

idiorrhythmic

i.e., followed by comma (i.e., xxxxx)

ieromonakh: monastic priest, monk-priest

Iese (r. 1714-1716, 1724-1727), Georgia

Ignatiev, Nikolai Pavlovich (1832-1908)

Ignatius the God-bearer (Bogonosets, d. 110?)

Ignaty, patriarch (r. 1605-1606)

Ignaty Brianchaninov (1807-1867), bishop

Ignaty of Kolomna (d. 1741)

Ignaty of Solovki

Ignaty Rimsky-Korsakov (d. 1701), metropolitan of Tobolsk

Ignaty Smola (d. 1741)

igumen: hegumen

Ikonopisnyi podlinnik . handbook for icon painters,

Ilarion, use Hilarion for metropolitan of Kiev

Ilarion Lezhaisky (d. 1719), archimandrite

Ilia (for Il'ia)

ill-fated project

ill. = illustration (ills.)

Illiamna, lake

Illuminati

Ilminsky, Nikolai I. (1821-1891)

imam, specialist in Muslim law

Imereti: western Georgia

Immanuel

Imperial Geographic Society

Imperial Philanthropic Society

Imperial Society of Russian History and Antiquities

in camera

Incarnation, the

Initsiativniki (from initsiativnaia gruppa or "action group")

Innocent III, pope (r. 1198-1216)

Innokentsy

Innokenty Gizel (d. 1684), abbot of Kievan caves monastery, 1656-1684

Innokenty Kulchitsky (c.1680-1731), Bishop

Innokenty Selnokrinov, Archbishop (r. 1832-1840)

Innokenty, Metropolitan (r. 1868-1879), Ivan Veniaminov (1797-1879)

Inonu, Ismet (1884-1973)

inorodtsy: non-Russians in empire, non-natives

inspektor. superintendent

Institute of Scientific Atheism of the Academy of Social Sciences

instructor (docent)

intercession (pokrov); Intercession of the Blessed Virgin;

church of the Intercession (Pokrov)

Interrepublican

invitations (vyzovy, pl.)

Ioakim (1620-1690) ; patriarch, r. 1674-1690)

Ioann (1876-1934), bp. of Riga

Ioann (d.1089); metropolitan

Ioann Maximovich (d. 1715), archbishop

Ioann Neronov (1591-1670)

Ioann Vostorgov (1867-1918)

Ioann Yanyshev (1826-1910)

Ioann, metropolitan of Kiev and Galich

Ioanniky Rudnev (1826-1900)

Ioanniky Seniutovich (d. 1729), abbot of Kievan caves, 1715-1729

Ioannites

Ioasaf (bp. of Kodiak, r. 1761-1799)

Ioasaf I (d. 1641)

Ioasaf II (r. 1667-1672)

Ioasaf Krokovsky (d. 1718), abbot of Kievan caves, 1697-1708

Iona (served 1599-1605)

Iona, metropolitan of Moscow (d. 1461, r. 1448-1461))

Iona of Novgorod (d. 1470), archbishop

Ioasaf Gorlenko (1705-1754), canonized 1911

Iosif (r. 1642-1652)

Iosif, patr. of Constantinople (r. 1416-1439)

Iosif Chernov (d. 1975) metropolitan of Alma-Ata

Iosif of Voronezh (d. 1726)

Iosif Oransky (d. 1751), abbot of Kievan caves, 1748-1751

Iosif Savrasha (d. 1984)

Iosif Semashko (1798-1868)

Iosif Trizna (d. 1655), abbot of Kievan caves monastery, 1647-1655

Iov (d. 1607)

Ipaty Potsei (d. 1605), abbot of Kievan caves monastery, 1599-1605

Ipaty Poty, Adam Poty (Poceij, 1541-1613), metropolitan of Kiev, 1599-1613

Irenaeus of Lyons (late second century)

Irenaeus (fl. c. 175-c. 195); bishop

Irgiz river, the

Irkutsk Ecclesiastical Seminary

Isaac ben Solomon Luria (1634-1572)

Isidor (d. 1463)

Islah reformist movement

islamicizing

Ismail (1487-1524) sheikh

Ismail Bey Gaspirali (1851-1914)

iurodivyi: holy fool, "fool for the sake of Christ" (Khrista radi)

Ivan (1554-1581)

Ivan Alexeevich (1666-1696)

Ivan I Kalita (c.1303-1340, r. 1325-1340)

Ivan II (1353-1358)

Ivan III, Grand Prince (r. 1462-1505)

Ivan IV (1530-1584);Ivan IV the Terrible (r. 1533-1584)

Ivan V (1666-1696)

Ivan VI (r. 1740-1741)

Ivan the Great bell tower

Ivan Veniaminov (1797-1879)

Ivan VI (1740-1764)

Ivanov, Viacheslav (1866-1949)

Ivanov-Klyshnikov, Pavel Vasilevich (1886-1941)

Ivanov-Klyshnikov, Vasily V. (1849-1919)

Ivanovich, Vasily (1552-1612)

Iveria

izbornik . anthology

izbranaia tysiacha: chosen thousand

Iziaslav, Prince (r. 1054-1078)

Izvestia: not italicized

J

Jackson-Vanik amendment (1974)

Jacob of Medzpin, Saint

jadid: Muslim reform or renaissance movement

jadidism, jadidist

Jadwiga (1373-1399), Polish queen

Jafar al-Sadiq (c.700-765),

Jagiello (Jogaila, c.1351-1434)

Jamal Ad-Din al-Afghani (1839-1897)

James, apocryphal Protoevangelium of (c.150 a.d.)

Jassy: for iasi

Jeremiah II, patriarch (1536-1595)

Jerome (c.345-c.419)

Jesuit (1534)

Jesuit College (in SPb.)

Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (AFC)

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jewish World Council for Russian War Relief

Job, metropolitan of Novgorod (r. 1697-1716)

John Chyrsostom (344-407)

John Italus (c.1025-1082)

John of Damascus, Saint (c.675-c.749)

John of Kronstadt, Father (Ivan Sergeiev, 1829-1909),

died 20 Dec 1908/2 Jan 1909 canonized 1990

John Scholasticus (d. 577)

John the Theologian

Joseph II (r. 1780-1790)

Josephians (possessors)

Joseph of Volokolamsk monastery

Joseph Reshilov (d. 1738)

Joseph Sanin of Volokolamsk (1440?-1515)

Joseph-Solomon ben Moisei of Lutsk (d. 1844)

Josephite Schism

Josyf Slipy, metropolitan of Lviv (1892-1984)

Judaizers (Zhidovstvuiushchie)

Judgment : the Last Judgment

Julie von KrŸdener, Baroness (1764-1824)

K

K. = Kiev

Kabanov: Ksenos (pseudonym of Ilarion Egorov Kabanov, d. 1882)

Kabardinian

Kabardino-Cherkess

kabbalist; kabbalistic tradition

kadim (old), Islamic movement

kahal: community; Book of the Kahal (Kniga kagala)

Kakhetiia

Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanonvich (1875-1946)

Kallistrat, Patriarch-Catholicos (r. 1932-1952)

Kalmyk

Kalnev, Mikhail Aleksandrovich (d. 1942)

Kalweit, Martin (1833-1911)

Kamen-Kashinsk: bishop of Kamen-Kashinsk

Kamenev, Lev (1883-1936)

Kangxi (Kang Hsi, 1661-1772), Manchu emperor

Karachai

Karaite

Karaite Religious Consistory (Karaimskoe dukhovnoe pravlenie)

Karakhan , Leo (1889-1937)

Karamzin, Nicholas (1766-1826)

Karelia and Ladoga, bishop of

Karev Alexander (1894-1971)

Kargel, Ivan V. (1849-1937)

Karlovci synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad

Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary)

Karpov, Georgy G. (b. 1898)

Kartalinsky Nerses

Kartashev, Anton V. (1875-1960)

Kashin

Katkov, Mikhail Mikoforovich (1875-1928)

Kaufmann, Konstantin P. (1818-1882), governor general

Kaunas (formerly Kovno)

Kazaks

Kazan diocese

kelar': cellarer; storehouse manager

keleinik. cell-servant

Ken : the river Ken near Lake Onega

Kerensky, Alexander F. (1881-1970)

Khabarov, Erofei (1610-1667)

khan of the Crimea

Kharchev, Konstantine (1934-1994)

Khategnash, protector of gardens

Khazars

Kheruvimskaia pesn'. 'Cherubim Song"

Khlysty or Flagellants

Kholm (or Chelm) in the kingdom of Poland

Kholmogory and Vaga, diocese of

Khors

Khortitsa, not Chortitsa

Khotin, district of Bessarabia.

khristovshchina: Christ-faith

Khrushchev antireligious campaign

Khrushchev, Nikita (1894-1971)

Kiakhta, treaty of (14 June 1728)

kibitka. covered cart

Kiev Ecclesiastical Academy; Kiev Mohyla Academy; Kiev Mohyla Ecclesiastical Academy

Kiev, annexed by Moscow (1667)

Kievan Rus

Kievan Caves Patericon, the; the patericon

kilometer: km; km = .62 mile

King James version

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)

Kiprian (d. 1406)

Kirgizia

Kireevsky, Ivan (1806-1856)

Kirill (secular name, Kiprian Timofeev, d. 1873)

Kirill of Belozersk (1337-1427), Saint Kirill of the White Lake

Kirill of Smolensk (b. 1946)

Kirill of Turov (d. 1183)

Kirill Terletsky (d. 1607), bishop of Lutsk of Ostrih (r. 1585-1607)

Kirill, metropolitan (r. 1568-1572)

Kirillovskaia kniga. Book of Cyril (1644)

Kishenev

Kitai-gorod: walled lower city, White City, in Moscow

Kitovras (centaur), the

Kizilbash (literally, red head)

Kizliar

Klassen, Abram (1810-1864)

Kliuchevsky, Vasily Osipovich (1841-1911)

Kliuev, Nikolai (1887-1937)

Klychkov, Sergei (1889-1940)

kniaz: prince

Knowledge society (Znanie):

Knowledge society was the Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge

Kochubei, Viktor P. (1768-1834)

kokoshniks: bonnet-shaped ogees, bonnet-shaped eves

Kolchak, Admiral Alexander V. (1873?-1920)

Kolokol (The Bell)

Kolomna and Kashira, diocese of

Koltovskaia, Anna Alexeevna (d. 1629)

komsomol, Communist Youth League

Konon (d. 1884) of Novozybkov

Konstantin, for most Russian forms of the name, not Constantine

Koo ,Wellington (1888-1985)

kopecks

Kopystensky, Mikhail (d. 1612)

Koran

Korff, Count Modest Modestovich (d. 1933)

Koriun (fl. 445-451); bishop

Kormchaia kniga,Pilot Book (Kormchaia kniga)

Kornilov, Lava (1870-1918)

Kornily of Novgorod (r. 1674-1695)

korobka, or communal tax

Korolenko, Vladimir (1853-1921)

Kostomarov, Nikolai Ivanovich (1817-1885)

Kostelnyk, Havryil (1886-1948)

Kostroma

Kotzubue, August (1761-1819)

Kovalevsky, Maxim Maximovich (1851-1916)

Kovner, Rabbi Yankale (Kovensky) = Yakov Barit (1797-1883)

Kovno, Kaunas (formerly Kovno)

Kovylin, Ilya (1731-1809), merchant, leader of Pomorie Old Believers in Moscow

Kozma Kosoi

krai: territory

Krasikov, Peter A. (1870-1939)

Krasnitsky, Vladimir Dmitrievich (1880-1936)

Kremjanets

Kremlin, the: capitalized in Moscow only

kremlin: Novgorod's cathedral of Holy Wisdom inside the kremlin

krestovyi ieromonakh. monastic priest of the patriarchal headquarters

Krieser, Jacob (1905-1952)

Kriuchkov, Gennady K. (b. 1927)

Kriuchkov, Ksenofont Nikiforovich (d. 1909)

kriuk (hook) notation (kriukovoe penie)

Krupskaia, Nadezhda (1869-1939)

KrŸdener, Julie von, Baroness (1764-1824)

Krutitsy: ancient see resident in Moscow and second

most prestigious see in Russia; formerly diocese of Sarai

Krylenko, Nikolai (1885-1938)

Ksenos (pseudonym of Ilarion Egorov Kabanov, d. 1882)

Kuban Cossacks

Kuban region

Kuchuk-Kainarji, treaty of (1774)

Kudriavtsev, Viktor Dmitrievich (1828-1892)

Kuibyshev

kukol': monk's headpiece, esp. patriarch's

Kulish, Panteleimon (1819-1897)

Kurbsky, Andrei (1528-1583)

Kuroedov, Vladimir (d. Mar 1994)

Kutaisi

Kuzma Minin (d. 1616)

Kuzmich, Elder (starets) Fedor Kuzmich

Kypchak, Kypchak Turks

L

L. = Leningrad

Labunski: Polish noble

la Harpe, Cesar (1754?-1838)

lakes: Lake Dym; Lake Ilmen in Novgorod diocese;

Lake Illiamna, Lake Lagoda, Lake Chud, Lake Onega.

Lamennais, Felicite (1782-1854)

Lanskoy, S.S. (1787-1862)

large-scale

Last Judgment, the

late-Byzantine

last-minute (adj.)

Latin Rite Catholics; but, the Latin rite

Latinists (i.e., Catholics)

latinizing

Latyshev, Nikodim (r. 1969-1986)

Law Code (Sobornoe ulozhenie) of 1649

Law of God (zakon bozhii, that is, Orthodox doctrine or religious instruction)

Law, the (that is, Hebrew Torah or the Mosaic Law)

Lay of Igor's Campaign (Slovo o polku igoreva)

league: Communist Youth League (Komsomol)

League of Militant Atheists, see Union of M.A.

lections (zachala)

left-hand corner

Leibniz , Gottfried (1646-1716)

Leichoudes, Sophronios (1652-1730)

Lemberg (Russian, Lvov; Ukrainian, Lviv)

Lenin, Vladimir I. (1870-1924)

Leningrad and Novgorod,diocese of

Lents, Heinrich (1804-1865)

Leo III (r. 717-741)

Leo IV the Khazar (r. 775-780)

Leo V (r. 813-820)

Leo XIII (r. 1878-1903), pope

Leo the Great (c.400-461)

Leokhnovo

Leonid (1768-1841)

Leontiev, Konstantin (1831-1891)

Leonty Lebidinsky (d. 1893)

Leopold II (1747-1792)

Lepikhin, Yakov

Leroux, Pierre (1797-1871)

Leskov, Nikolai S. (1831-1895)

Lestchinsky, Jacob (1876-1966)

Lev, use this form except for Leo Tolstoy and Leon Trotsky

Lev Nagolkin (d. 11 Oct 1841)

Lev Yurlov of Voronezh (r.1727-1730)

Levindanto, Nikolai Alexandrovich (1896-1966)

Levinsohn, Issac Baer (1788-1860)

Liapunov, Prokopy (d. 1611)

Libau (now Liepaja, Latvia)

life (zhitie)

life-sustaining

lifelong

life-style (Web.)

Likhud Sofrony (Sophronios Leichoudes,1652-1730), Ioanniky (1633-1717)

Lisowski, Hereclius, bishop of Polotsk (r. 1785-1795)

literal-minded

Littoral Responses (Pomorskie otvety, 1723)

liturgical books: Triodion, Octoichos, Psalter, Kanon, menaion, Gospel, Apostle

Liturgikon

Liturgy of the Presanctified Hosts, the

Living Church (Zhivaia tserkov')

Livonia, wars with (1558-1583)

Litvinov, Maxim (1876-1951)

Lobnoe mesto: "Place of the Brow"

Locke, John (1632-1704) 99

locum tenens: acting patriarch; temporary administrator

Loggin (d. 1654)

long-awaited

long-distance

long-drawn-out

long lasting

long-range

long-run

long-standing

long-suffering

long-term

long-time

lower-class (attr.)

Lozovsky, Solomon A. (1878-1952)

Louis IX (1214-1270)

Lublin, Union of, in 1569

Lucaris, Cyril (1572-1638)

Luka Belousovich (d. 1761), abbot of Kievan caves, 1752-1761

Luke the Evangelist

Lunacharsky, Anatoly Vasilevich (1875-1933)

Luria, Isaac ben Solomon (1534-1572)

Lutostansky, Hippolyte (1835-1915)

Lutsykovka

Luzzatto, Moses Hayyim (1707-1746)

Lviv (Ukrainian city); Lwow, when in Poland; synod of Lviv (1946)

Lvov, Alexis F. (1798-1870)

Lvov, Fedor P. (1766-1836)

Lvov, Vladimir N. (served March-July 1917)

LycŽe at Tsarskoe Selo, the

Lypkivsky, Archpriest Basil (b. 1864)

lzhekanonicheskiia: false canonical

M

M. = Moscow

Mach, Ernst (1838-1916)

madhab (Muslim legal school)

magister: master's degree

Mahdi (Muslim savior/messiah)

Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204)

major general

Makary (1481?-1563), metropolitan of Moscow (r. 1542-1563)

Makary (1788-1860)

Makary Bulgakov (1816-1882)

Makary Ivanov (d. 7 September 1860)

Makary Oksiuuk (d. 1961) archbishop of Lviv

Makary of Zheltye Vody, Saint (d. 1504)

Makhno, Nestor

Makhosh

Maklokov, Vasily Alexeevich (1869-1957)

Malenkov, Georgi M. (1902-1988)

Mamin-Sibiriak, Dmitry

Mamkheg

Mamre : the oak of Mamre

Mandelshtam, Nadezhda (1899-1980)

Mandelshtam, Osip (1891-1938)

Mandeville, Sir John (14th century)

Mani, prophet (216-276)

Manuel II of Constantinople (r. 1244-1254)

Marcionites

Marco Polo (c.1254-1324)

Maria Alexandrovna (1824-1880)

Maria Naryshkina (1779-1854)

Maria Pavlovna (1786-1859), Grand Duchess

Maria Theresa (1717-1780)

Markell Rodyshevsky (d. 1743)

Markish, Perets (1895-1952)

Martini, Giovanni Battista (1706-1784)

Marsyas-Masses, god of lightning

Mary of Cleopas

Mary the Mother of God

masjit (Rus. masdzhid) Muslim prayer house:

Masonic

master of Theological Sciences

matins (utrenia)

Matthew of Kiev (r. 1200 or 1201-1220)

Maxim, metropolitan (r. 1287-1305)

Maxim the Greek (1470?-1556, canonized 1988)

Maximus the Confessor (580-662)

May Laws, the

Mazaev, Andrei M. (1848-1928)

Mazaev, Dei Ivanovich (d. 1922)

Mazepa: Hetman Ivan Stepanovich Mazepa (r. 1687-1709)

Mechetny

medresse, or upper level Muslim religious schools

Mefody (1700-1776), Archbishop

Meinhard, or Meinrad, (d. 1196)

Meir, Golda (1898-1978)

Mekhitar Petrosian of Sebastia (1676-1749)

mektep, or elementary Koranic schools

Meletius of Lycopolis (d. 326)

Melety Khrebtovich (d. 1590)

Melety Vuiakhevich (d. 1697), abbot of Kievan caves, 1690-1697

Melnikov-Pechersky, Pavel (1818-1883)

Melnyk, Mykhailo (1903-1955)

Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipeda in Lithuania)

menaion, or menology; menaia, pl.; see under "great"

Mennonite Brethren

Marchlewski, Julian (1865-1925)

Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeevich (1865-1941)

meshchane: townsmen

Meshchersky, Peter S. (1777-1856)

Meskhetian Georgians

Mesrob (or Mashtots), c.361-440)

Messiah and Savior

Methodius (c. 815-885)

metropolitan of Alaverdi ; metropolitan of Lviv; metropolitan of Moscow and all-Russia

Metternich, Count (for. minister of Austria, 1809-1848)

Meyerson, Golda (later Meir, 1898-1978)

mi. = miles

Michael III (r. 842-867); emperor

Michael VIII (r. 1261-1282); emperor

Mickiewicz, Adam (1798-1855)

mid-1943

mid-1950s

mid-nineteenth century

mid-seventeenth century

mid-twenties

mid: as prefix, usually not hyphenated; midcentury, midday, midnight, midway

Middle East

middle-eastern patriarchs

middle-aged

Middle Ages, the

Mickiewicz, Adam (1798-1855)

midrash: commentary, or "midrash"

Midwest

Mikael of Sebastia (1542-1570)

Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov (1596-1645, r. 1613-1645)

Mikhail, metropolitan (r. 1818-1821)

Mikhail Melnik (d. 1955), bishop of Drogobych

Mikhail Rohoza (Rogoza, d. 1599), metropolitan of Kiev

Mikhoels, Shlomo (1890-1948)

Mikoian (1896-1978)

mile = 1.6 km

Militant Atheists, Union of (Soiuz voinstvuiushchikh bezbozhnikov)

Miliutin, Dmitry (war minister, served 1861-1881)

millenarian

million: spell, two million

Mindaug, Lithuanian prince (d. 1263)

Minin, Kuzma (d. 1616)

minister of education

Ministry of National Education

Ministry of State Security (MGB)

Ministry of Transportation

Minor Entrance, the

Minsky, Nikolai (1855-1937)

miracle worker

miracle-working icons

Misail

Missionerskoe obozrenie (Missionary Review)

miter

Mitrofan (1623-1703)

Mitrofan (r. 1201-1211, 1219-1223)

Mkrtich I, Armenian catholicos, 1892-1907

Mniszech, Marina, wife of first False Dmitry

modus vivendi

Mohyla, Peter (1596-1646)

Moisei the Hungarian (d. 1043)

Moiseev, Ivan (d. 1972)

Moldavia

Mologa river, the

Molokans

Molotov, Viacheslav M. (1890-1986),

Monastery Chancellery (Monastyrskii prikaz)

monastery:

monastery (lavra) of Pochaev (founded 1240); monastery of Khutyn; monastery of Saint George (Yurev); monastery of the Dormition (Uspenskii); monastery of the Transfiguration in Yaroslavl, the; monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior in Murom, the; monastery of the Miracle (Chudov),

monastic (black) clergy

monastic deacon (ierodiakon)

monastic priest (hieromonk), monk-priest (ieromonakh)

monastic priest of the patriarchal headquarters (krestovyi ieromonakh)

moneylender

Montanists

Montefiore, Sir Moses (1784-1885), British Jew

Mother of God (Theotokos), Most Holy Mother of God

Morariu-Andrievici, Silvester , metropolitan of Bukovina (1880-1895)

Morchakov, Iosif (r. 1960-1969)

Mordvins

Morozova, the boyarina Feodosia (1639?-1675)

Moscow and all-Russia, metropolitan of

Moscow Ecclesiastical Academy

Moscow Kremlin, the

Moscow-appointed bishop

Moses Maimonides (1135-1204)

mother-in-law

motherland, the; the Soviet motherland

Mount of Olives, the

Movses of Tatev (1629-1632)

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick (b. 1927)

Mstislav Mstislavich (r. 1208-1218)

Mstyslav Skrypnyk (b. 1898)

Mstislavsky, Fedor Ivanovich (d. 1622)

Mstislavsky, Ivan Fedorovich (1530-1586); prince

Mt = Matthew

Mtskheta

much-sought

muderris (muderrises, pl.) teacher for medresse

mufti, muftiate: Muslim religious administrator (administration)

Muhammad (570?-632)

Muhammad II the Conqueror (1451-1481)

Muhammad al-Muntazar (disappeared 878)

Muhammediyeh, Muslim medresse in Kazan

Muharrem (the first month of the Muslim year)

mullahs: Muslim teachers, or clerics

multi: no space or hyphen in forming compunds: multiconfessional, multinational

Munnich, Burchard (1683-1767)

Murad II (r. 1421-1451)

Muraviev, Nikita (1796-1843)

Muromtsev, Sergei Andreevich (1850-1910)

Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism

musketeers (streltsy)

Muslim clerics:

mullah (ordinary teacher), mufti (religious administrator), kazi (judge), muderris (teacher for medresse), imam (specialist in Islamic law), muezzin (second rank religious person who calls the congregation to prayer), ulema (scholars)

Muslim law: shariat (religious, canon); adat (customary, common)

Muslim prayer house: (masjit)

Muslim schools: mektep (primary); medresse (upper level)

Muslim ecclesiastical board(s)

Muslim Sufi brotherhoods

MŸnnich,Burchard (1683-1767)

N

nachalnik: superior

Nadezhdin, Nikolai I. (1804-1856)

Nadir Shah (1688-1747)

Nahman ben Simhah of Bratslav (1772-1811)

Nakhichevan ASSR

Namangan district of the Uzbek SSR

name-giving ceremony

Name Worshipers" (imiaslavtsy)

namestnichestvo: political-military districts

namestnik: translate as "governor, " "governor general, " or "viceroy";

in monastery, "superior" or "abbot"; in cathedral, "vicar"

Napoleon I (1769-1821)

Naqshbandiya

narrow-mindedness

narty (heroes)

Narva

Naryshkina, Maria (1779-1854)

Nasedka, Ivan (1570-1660)

nastoiatel': abbot of monastery; dean of cathedral

Natalia Kirillovna (1651-1694)

National Education Commission (in Poland)

Nativity of Christ

Nativity of the Virgin Mary, the

Natukhai

Navasart: beginning of the new year, called Amanor or Navasart

Nazimov, Vladimir I. (1829-1874)

near-eastern Jews

nedel'nye: Sunday antiphons

Nekrasovites (Nekrasovtsy)

Nektarios , patriarch of Jerusalem (1661-1669)

neo-Christians

neoclassical

neo-Uniates: or "penitents" (pokutnyky, pl.)

Neronov : Ivan Neronov (1591-1670); Ioann

Nesselrode, Karl (1780-1862)

Nestah-Daredzhan, queen

Nestor Makhno

Nestor, monk (1056-1113)

Nestorius (d. 451?); Partriarch of Constantinople (r. 428-431)

Netter, Charles (1826-1882).

Neusky, Makary (1835-1926)

New Economic Policy (1921-1928)

new Jerusalem, the (biblical allusion, Rv 21.2); New Jerusalem monastery (Moscow)

New Russia

New Savior (Novospasskii) monastery

New Testament Apocalypse,the

newly acquired, newly corrected , newly established

Nicephorus the Confessor (r. 806-815)

Nicephorus Phocas (c.912-969)

Nicetas Stethatos (c.1000-c.1080)

Nicholas I (r. 1825-1855)

Nicholas I,patriarch of Constantinople (r. 901-907 and 912-925)

Nicholas II (1868-1918, r. 1894-1917); abdication of Nicholas II (2/15 March 1917)

Nicholas, Saint: Nicholas the Miracle Worker of Myra, Saint (280?-342)

Nifont

Nifont (r. 1130-1156), archbishop

Nikifor Tur (d. 1598), abbot of Kievan caves monastery, 1590-1598

Nikita (d. 1108), bishop

Nikita Dobrynin (Pustosviat, d. 1682); Nikita the Hypocrite (Pustosviat)

Nikodim Rotov (1929-1978)

Nikolaevsk

Nikolai Sokolov of Kaluga, Bishop (r. 1834-1851)

Nikolai Mogilevsky (d. 1955) metropolitan of Alma-Ata

Nikolai Yarushevich (1892-1961)

Nikolai Yurik (d. 1984), metropolitan

Nikoloz Kherkheulidze (r. 1741-1744)

Nikon (1605-1681); Patriarch Nikon (r. 1652-1667)

Nikon of the Black Mountain (Chernogorets, d. 1088)

Nil Isakovich (1799-1874), archbishop of Irkutsk

Nil Maikov of Sora (1433-1508)

Nil Popov (1833-1891)

nine tenths

Nino, Saint (276-338)

Nizhnekamchatsk

Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky, 1936-1991); Nizhny Novgorod, diocese of

nobleman (boyar) (boiarin); nobles (boiare)

nobles (dvorianstvo)

Nogai(s)

non-Europeans

non-Jew

non-Muslims

non-natives: (inorodtsy)

nonpolemical

nonpossessors (nestiazhateli)

non-Russian

nonreligious

nonsymbolic

Nordau, Max (1849-1923)

north-south axis

northeastern Rus

north-northeast

Novgorod-Seversk

Novgorodtsev, Pavel I. (1866-1924)

Novikov, Nikolai Ivanovich (1744-1816)

Novodevichy monastery, the

Novopomortsy (Old Believers)

Novosti, the Soviet press agency Novosti

Novruz, pre-Islamic celebration of spring

numbers: spell millions; 8000 (four digits, no commas)

Nusinov, Isaac (1889-1952)

O

oblast: region

obnovlentsy: renovationists

Obshchestvo liubitelei drevnei pismennosti: Society of Friends of Ancient Literature

October Manifesto

Octoichos: liturgical book

Odintsov, Nikolai Vasilevich (1889-1938?)

official press (pechatnyi dvor)

ogee zakomaras: shaped like a cross section of the onion dome (called ogee zakomaras)

Ohrid Apostol, archbishopric of Ohrid in Macedonia

Oka river, the

Okhotina, Ekaterina Pavlovna (d. 1882)

Old Belief

Old Bolsheviks

Old Catholics, the

Olearius, Adam (1599-1671)

Olga (r. 945-964, d. 969)

Olgerd (also spelled Algirdas, r. 1345-1377), Prince

Olympus, Mt., in Bithynia, present-day Ulu Dag in Turkey

omofor: bishop's pallium

Oncken, Johann G. (1800-1884)

Ondra, Karl (1839-1887)

one-apse church

one fourth

one third

one-to-one

ongoing

Onisifor

Onufry (d. 1894),Bishop

open-ended

openness (glasnost), policy of

oprichnina: personal royal domain (1565-1572)

Optina Pustyn, the

orar: deacon's stole

Orbeliani, Sulkhan-Saba (1658-1725)

order: order of Saint Alexander Nevsky;

order of Saint Andrew; order of Saint Anne ; order of Saint Vladimir; order of the Red Star

Ordzhonikidze (formerly Vladikavkaz)

Orenburg

Organizing Committee of the ECB Church

Origen (185-254)

Orlov, Alexis F. (1786-1861), chief of gendarmes of the Third Section

Orlov, Grigory Grigoryevich (1734-1783)

Orthodox Church Abroad

Orthodox Missionary Society 202

Orthodox-populated areas

Ossetians

Osterman, Heinrich (1686-1747)

Ostrih (Ostrog) Bible of 1581

Ostrozhsky,

Constantine Ivanovich of Ostrih (c.1460-1530); Constantine Constantinovich (1526-1608).

otherworldly

Otnaia hermitage,the

Otto the Great (r. 936-973)

Ottoman empire

Ottoman Turks

out-and-out

outbreak

OVIR, or the Department of Visas and Registration of Foreign Citizens)

P

Pachomius (c.287-346)

Pafnuty

Pafnuty of Kazan (d. 1890), Bishop

Paisy Velichkovsky (1722-1794)

Pakhomy

Pakhomy Logofet, a Greek hagiographer who settled in Muscovy in 1440

Palace of Facets

Palaeologus dynasty (1261-1453), Zoe (Sophia) Paleologus (d. 1503)

Pale of Settlement ; the pale

Pallady (Petr Ivanovich Kafarov, 1817-1878)

pallium: omofor

Pamiat (Memory)

panagia, "pectoral icon"

Panagia (All-Holy), the Virgin

panikhida: requiem; solemn service of prayer for the repose of the dead (panikhida)

pan-Islamic, pan-Orthodox

panslavism, panslav

Pantokrator, the Almighty.

panturkism, panturanianism, panturanism

panunity (vseedinstvo)

paperwork

Papias of Hierapolis (c.60-c.130)

paraman: patriarch's breastplate

Parfenius Levytsky, archbishop of Poltava

Parfinov, Irinarkh (r. 1941-1952)

Paris, Saint Sergius Russian Orthodox Theological Institute in

parish (white) clergy

Parnas, Rabbi Hayyim Nahman (d. 1854)

partition of Poland, first (1772), second (1793), third (1795)

part-time

Party: Communist Party; Socialist Revolutionary Party;

Pasha, Enver Bey (1881-1922)

Pashkov, Vasily Alexandrovich (1831-1902)

Pashkovites

Passion Week

patericon :

the Kievan Caves Patericon, not capitalized when referred to simply as "the patericon"

patriarch, the

patriarch of Moscow and all- Russia

Patriarch-Catholicos Kallistrat (r. 1932-1952)

patriarchs of Moscow:

Iov (r. 1589-1605), Ignaty (1605-1606), Germogen (1606-1611), Filaret (1619-1633), Ioasaf (1634-1640), Iosif (1642-152), Nikon (1652-1667), Ioasaf (1667-1672), Pitirim (1672-1673), Ioakim (1674-1690), Adrian (1690-1700); Patriarch Sergius (r. 1943-1944); Patriarch Alexis I (1877-1970, r. 1945-1970); Pimen (1971-1990); Alexis II (1990-)

Paul (1754-1801, r. 1796-1801)

Paul of Prussia (1821-1895)

Pauline epistles, the

Pavel (Petr Vasilev Velikodvorsky, b. 1808), Old Believer

Pavel, use Pavel except for Emperor Paul

Pavlov, Pavel (1883-1938)

Pavlov, Vasily G. (1854-1924)

peasant commune (obshchina, mir, artel)

pechatnyi dvor: official press, royal print shop

pectoral icon (panagia); pectoral medallion (panagia); pectoral icon (enkolpion)

Pelshe, Robert (1880-1955)

penitents (pokutnyky)

Pentecost: the day of Pentecost

Pentecostals

People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs

People's universities (narodnye universitety)

People's Will (Narodnaia volia)

percent

Pereiaslavl treaty, the (1654)

Peremyshl, Przemysl (Polish)

Pereslavl-Zalessky

Perovsky, Lev Alexeevich (1792-1856)

personal royal domain (oprichnina, 1565-1572)

Perun

Peter (d. 1326)

Peter A. Valuev (1815-1890); Peter I. Valuev (1815-1890)

Peter I (1672-1725, r. 1682-1725), Peter the Great

Peter II (r. 1727-1730)

Peter, metropolitan (r. 1308-1326)

Peter III (1728-1762) (r. 1762)

Peter Mohyla, metropolitan of Kiev (1596?-1647)

Peter Petrovich Chebyshev (served 1768-1774),

Peter Poliansky, metropolitan of Krutitsy (1863-1936)

Peter the Fuller (d. 488)

Peter, of Alaska (d. 1882)

Peters, Jacob (1813-1884); Oberschulze

Petliura, Simon V. (1879-1926)

Petr: translate Peter

Petrashevsky circle

Petrograd Soviet

Petrov, Andreian (1717-?)

Petrov, Paul (fl. 1760s), leader of Christ-faith

petty-bourgeois

Pg. = Petrograd

Phanariot

Phileas (d. 306)

Philo (15-10 b.c.-45-50 a.d.)

philosophes

Philotheos, patriarch of Constantinople (r. 1353-1354; 1364-1376)

Photius (c.820-c.895)

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)

pietism

Pilniak, Boris, 1894-1937?

Pilot Book (Kormchaia kniga)

Pimen (d. 1141), abbot of Kievan caves monastery, 1132-1141

Pimen of Novgorod (d. 1571), archbishop

Pimen, Sergei Mikhailovich Izvekov (1910-1990, r. 1971-1990)

Pine Grove hill

Pinsker, Lev Semenovich (1821-1891)

Pisarev, Dmitry I. (1840-1868)

Pitirim

Pitirim (patriarch, r. 1672-1673)

Pitirim of Nizhny Novgorod

Pius VI (r. 1775-1799)

Pius VII (r. 1800-1823)

Pius XI (r. 1922-1939)

Pius XII (r. 1939-1958)

Pivochka, Onysyfor (r. 1583-1588)

Plague Riot of 15-17 September,the

Platon Levshin, metropolitan of Moscow (1737-1812), (r. 1775-1812)

Platon, archbishop of Riga (r. 1848-1867)

Platonov, Sergei F. (1860-1933)

Plehve, Viacheslav K. (1846-1904)

Plekhanov, Georgy (1857-1918)

Pobedonostsev, Konstantin P. (1827-1907), procurator general, 1880 -1905)

Poceij, Adam (Poty) (1541-1613, r. 1591-1613)

pod spudom: covered casket (pod spudom)

podvig: spiritual attainment

podvizhnik: ascetic

Pogodin, Mikhail (1800-1875)

pogromshchiki pogrom makers

Pokrovsky, Mikhail N. (1868-1932)

pokutnyky: neo-Uniates, or "penitents"

Poland, partitions of , first (1772), second (1793), third (1795)

Polikarp of Kiev (d. 1182), abbot of Kievan caves monastery, 1165-1182

Polikarp Sikorsky of Lutsk (1877-1953), Bishop

Polish army

Polish Jewish Bund

Polish-Lithuanian

Political Literature Press (Izdatel'stvo politicheskoi literatury)

political-military districts (namestnichestvo)

Polotsk and Vitebsk, bishop of

Polotsk: the synod of Polotsk (1839)

Polovtsian (Cuman)

Polycarp of Smyrna (c.70-155)

Polycarp Saint

pomorie: coastal, littoral

Pomorie Old Believers

Pomorskie otvety, "Littoral Responses"

pope, the

Popov, Kornily (1874-1966)

Popov, Nil (1833-1891)

popovtsy: priestly (popovtsy) Old Believers

populist, populism

porebrik band of hollow brickwork

Porphyry's (232-c.305) neo-Platonist

Porte : the Sublime Porte

posadskoe stroenie. Suburbs Statute

Possevino, Antonio (1533?-1611)

postapostolic

post-Napoleonic

postwar

Potemkin, Grigory (1739-1791)

Poty, Adam (Poceij) (1541-1613, r. 1591-1613)

Poty, Ipoty (r. 1599-1613)

poverty-stricken parish

Pozharsky, Prince Dmitry (1578-1642)

Praskovia Fedorovna, Tsaritsa

Pravda: not italicized

prayer book (Trebnik)

prayer houses

prayer tier (deesis)

prazdnichnye: great holidays or feasts (prazdnichnye)

pre-Christian

pre-Marxist

pre-Mongol

pre: usually prefixed without hyphen: prewar; prerevolutionary;

Preobrazhensky cemetery (Preobrazhenskoe kladbishche)

Preobrazhensky Community of Old Ritualists of the Staropomorsk Concord

preparatory commission (predsobornoe prisutstvie)

Presentation : the feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the temple (Sretenie gospodne)

present-day

prewar

priestless (bezpopovtsy) Old Believers

priestly (popovtsy) Old Believers; the priestly variety

prikaz: chancellery

Primary Chronicle

prior (namestnik)

pritvor: vestibule

Pritzkau, Johann (1842-1924)

Privy Chancellery, the (Tainyi prikaz)

pro-Greek

pro-imperialism

pro-imperialist

procurator general: the lay supervisor of the Holy Synod;

"our eye and advocate concerning state matters" (oko nashe i striapchii o delakh gosudarstvennykh)

progressive-minded people

Prokhanov, Ivan Stepanovich (1869-1935)

Prokhor (d. 1126) abbot of Kievan caves monastery, 1112-1126

Prokhor of Gorodets (dates unknown)

Prokofiev, Alexis F. (b. 1915)

Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953)

Prokofievites (prokof'evtsy)

Prokopy Liapunov (d. 1611)

prophet Baruch, the

prophet Mani (216-276)

Protasov, Nikolai Alexandrovich (procurator general, 1836-1855)

Protastewicz-Suskowski, Walery (r. 1576-1579), Bishop

Protestant sectarianism

Protestantism

protŽgŽ

Protocols of the Elders of Zion

protodiakon: archdeacon

protoierei: archpriest

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph (1809-1865)

provincial assembly (zemstvo)

provincial government reform (1775)

Provisional Government,the

Pruth river

Przemysl

Psellus, Michael (c.1019-c.1078)

Pseudo-Methodius

pseudo: prefix without hyphen, pseudoreligious; pseudoscientific

Pskov

Pugachev, Emilian (1726-1775)

Puiu, Visarion, metropolitan of Bukovina (1935-1940)

Purgatory

purges of 1936-1938

Purishkevich, V.M. (1870-1920)

Pushkin, Alexander (1799-1837)

Pustosviat, see under Nikita

Pustozersk

pustyn: hermitage, wilderness hermitage, wilderness

Q

Qaddariyah

qadis, Muslim judges

Queen of Heaven

Quinisextum : ecumenical: the Quinisextum council at Constantinople (692)

R

Rabbi Asher ben Jehiel (Rosh)

rabbinate: office of rabbi

rabbinists, rabbinite Jews (in contrast with Karaites)

Rachmaninoff, Sergei Vasilievich (1873-1943)

Radio Moscow

Radstock, Lord (Granville A.W. Waldegrave, 1833-1913)

raikom: district committee

raion: district

Raising of Lazarus

Ramadan (the ninth month of the Muslim year)

rank and file

Rasputin, Grigory (1872-1916)

Ratushnyi, Mikhail (1830-1911)

razdorniki: dissenters

Razumovsky (1709-1771)

re-evaluation

reader (chtets)

Reagan, Ronald (b. 1911)

Red Army

Red Banner of Labor, the .

red tape

reddish-brown

Reds : the Reds (Bolsheviks)

reestablished

refectory (monks' commons)

Reformation, the; the Protestant Reformation

Regeneration: Union of Church Regeneration

regional committees (obkom)

region (oblast )

Religious and Philosophical Society, the

religious instruction (zakon bozhii)

religious verses (dukhovnye stikhi)

Religious-Philosophical Society of St. Petersburg

Remizov, Alexis M. (1877-1957)

Renaissance, Renaissance humanist

renovationist :

the renovationist (Living Church) movement; the renovationist schism; renovationists (obnovlentsy).

Repta, Vladimir , metropolitan of Bukovina (Volodymyr, 1902-1925)

requiem (panikhida)

revniteli blagochestiia: Zealots of Piety

revolution:

the Bolshevik revolution (25 October/7 November 1917); the French revolution; the October revolution

Riaboshapka, Ivan (1832-1902)

right wing

rite: the Latin rite, the Greek rite, Eastern Rite Catholics, Latin Rite Catholics

ritual slaughter (shekhit)

river: Volga river

riza. icon covering

Rock of Faith (Kamen' very), The

rococo style

Rodyshevsky, Markell (d. 1743)

Rogozhky cemetery (Rogozhskoe kladbishche)

Rohling, August (1839-1931)

Rohoza, Mikhail (Rogaza) (d. 1599); metropolitin of Kiev

Roman (d. 303)

Roman, bishop of Lithuania(r. 1354-1361)

Roman Kopa (d. 1736), Kievan caves abbot, 1730-1736

Roman Mstislavich (ruled 1160-1181)

Romania

romanization

Romanov, Fedor Nikitich (1553?-1633)

romanticism

Romodanovsky, Prince Fedor (1640-1717)

Ropp, Baron Edward von der (1851-1939)

Rostov diocese, the

Rostov the Great

Rostov-on-the-Don

Rovno

Rozanov, Vasily (1856-1919)

Rozhkov, Nikolai A. (1868-1927)

Rtishchev, F.M. (1626-1673)

ruble, kopeck

runner (begunets)

rusalki: water-nymphs

Russell, Bertrand (1872-1970)

Russian Bible Society (1813-1826)

Russian-born

Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov' zarubezhei, RPTsZ):

Karlovci synod of the Russian Church Abroad

Russian Geographical Society

russianized Georgian royal princess

Russian Jewry

Russian-language studies, Russian-language works

Russian Orthodox church

Russian People: Union of the Russian People

Russian Primary Chronicle, the

Russian Student Christian Movement

russifying, russification

Russo-Iranian war, first (1806-1813), second (1826-28)

Russo-Japanese war (1904-1905)

Russo-Polish war, 1919-1921

Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878, the;

other wars: 1735-1739, 1768-1774, 1787-1791, 1806-1812, 1828-1829

Rustaveli,Shota (fl. 1190)

Rutsky, Joseph Veliamyn Rutsky (1613-1637)

Rylo, Vassian (d. 1481)

S

Sabaoth or the Ancient of Days

Sabler, V.K. (b. 1847)

Saburova, Solomonia (d. 1542)

sacristan (psalomshchik); sacristans (readers and cantors)

Sahak (Isaac, r. c.390-438)

saint: spell out when naming saint, Saint Basil

Saint Peter's day (29 June)

Saint Sergius-Holy Trinity hermitage (pustyn) (St. Petersburg)

Saint Sergius-Holy Trinity Lavra (Radonezh, Zagorsk)

Saint Sergius Russian Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris

Saint Simon, Louis de Rouvroy de Saint Simon (1675-1755)

saint (prepodobnyi)

Sakharov, Andrei (1921-1990)

Saltykov, Nicholas Ivanovich (1736-1816)

Saltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail Evgrafovich (1826-1889)

Sanctus

Sava Vladislavich-Raguzinsky (c.1670-1738), Count

Savinkov, Boris (1879-1925)

Savior-not-made-by-hand (Nerukotvorenyi obraz Gospoda)

Savva (1169-1237)

Savvaty of Solovki

Savvaty Levshin (d. 1897)

sayyids (those claiming descent from Ali)

Sbiruisky, Dionisy (Zbiruisky) (d.1604)

Schelling , Friedrich (1775-1854)

schema (skhima)

schema-monk, or anchorite (skhimnik)

SchlŸsselberg fortress

schnorrer: beggar

scientific-educational approach

Scripture, the Scriptures (capitalize when referring to the Bible); scriptural

seclusion (Greek, anekhorisa)

second-class

second-class citizens

Second Coming, the

second-ranking

Secret Branch, political police (Catherine II)

Secret Chancellery

secularization of monastic lands (1764)

secular-minded

Sejm: the Polish parliament (Sejm)

self-administration

self-alienated

self-awareness

self-castration

self-contempt

self-defense

self-determination

self-government

self-hatred

self-help

self-immolation

self-mutilation

self-proclaimed

self-taught clergyman

self-worth

Selim II (r. 1566-1574)

Semashko, Iosif (1798-1868)

semi: prefix without hyphen, except +i: semimilitary; semireligious

seminary in Zhirovitsy

Serafim (1760-1833)

Serafim Glagolevsky (1763-1843); metropolitan of St. Petersburg (r. 1821-1843)

Serafim Gachkovsky (d. 1982) metropolitan of Alma-Ata

Serafim of Sarov, Saint (1759-1833)

Serafim of Voronezh (r. 1863-1886)

Serafim, metropolitan (r. 1821-1843)

Serapion, archbishop of Novgorod (r. 1506-1509) 219

Serapion (b. 1933); Archbishop

Sergei Alexandrovich, Grand Duke (1857-1905)

Sergius Liapidevsky(1820-1898)

Sergius of Radonezh, Saint (1321?-1392)

Sergius Stragorodsky (1867-1944); Patriarch Sergius (r. 1943-1944)

Sergius Voskresensky (1898?-1944)

service book (typikon)

service books, liturgical books: Triodion, Octoichos, Psalter, Kanon

Sestrcencewicz-Bohusz (Roman Catholic metropolitan)

setback

Sevastopol

seventeen-year-old youth

seventh ecumenical council (Nicaea II, 787)

Seventh-Day Adventism,

sexton (psalomshchik) (ponomar)

Shaevich, Adolf, (b. 1938)

Shah Nadir (1688-1747)

Shakhno Epstein

Shakovsky ,Yakov Petrovich (1705-1777)

Shalashov, A.A. (d.1963)

Shapsug

Sharaivsky, Nestor (1865-1929)

shariat (Koranic) law, canonic law

shater: tent; tent-shaped roof (shater)

Shcheglovitov, Ivan Gregorevich (1861-1918); minister of justice

Shchelkalov, Vasily (d. 1611)

Shcherbatov, Mikhail (1733-1790)

Shcherbina, Fedor (1849-1936)

sheikh

sheikh ul-Islam

Sheikh Safi al-Din (1253-1334)

shekhit: Jewish ritual slaughter

Shelikhov, Grigory Ivanovich (1747-1795)

Sheptytsky, Count Andrei (1865-1944)

Sheshkovsky, Stepan (1719-1794)

Shevardnadze, Eduard (b. 1928)

Shevchenko, Taras (1814-1861)

Shield of the Faith (Shchit very)

Shiite Muslim, Shiism, Shiites

Shio-Mghvime monastery

Shirinsky-Shikhmatov, Prince Alexander Prokhorovich (d. 1884)

Shishkov,Admiral Alexander (1754-1841)

short-lived

Shostakovich, Dmitry (1906-1975),

Shtern, Grigory (1900-1941)

shtetls: villages (shtetls)

Shtundists

(Russian, Shtundisty; German, Stundisten), Shtundism (Russian, Shtundizm; German, Stundismus)

Shuisky, Vasily Ivanovich (1552-1612, r. 1606-1610)

side by side

Siestrzencewicz, Stanislas (1774-1826)

Sigismund of Poland

Sigismund II Augustus (r. 1548-1572)

Sigismund III (1566-1632)

Siia river

Silvester (d. 1566)

Silvester Medvedev

Simargl

Simbirsk (now Ulianovsk)

Simeon Bekbulatovich (1545?-1616)

Simeon of Thessalonica (d. 1429); Simeon of Saloniki (d. 1429)

Simeon Polotsky (1629-1680)

Simeon, Grand Prince (r. 1341-1353)

Simeon the New Theologian (949-1022)

Simhah, Nahman ben (1772-1811) of Bratslav

Simkhah Bobovich

Simon of Erevan (1763-1780)

Siniavsky, Andrei (b. 1925)

sinodik: prayerbook

Sionskii vestnik (The Herald of Zion)

Six-Day War (1967)

six-tiered iconostasis

six-winged seraphim

sixteenth-century wall paintings

sixth ecumenical council (Constantinople III, 680-681)

Skarga, Peter (1536-1611)

skete, hermitage (skit); skete of All Saints

skhima: distinctive garb, cowl of an ascetic (skhimnik);

schema; schema-monk, or anchorite (skhimnik)

skhimnik: anchorite

Skobeev, Leonid (1851-1932)

Skoptsy

Skoropadsky, Hetman Ivan Ilich Skoropadsky (r. 1708-1722)

Skoropadsky, Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky (1873-1945)

Skvortsov-Stepanov, Ivan I. (1870-1928)

Skvortsov, Vasily Mikhailovich (1859-1932)

Slavery Chancellery

Slavic Benevolent Committee

slavicists

Slavonic-Greek-Latin Academy

slavophiles, slavophilism

Slesarev, Flavion (1879-1960)

Slipyi, Josyf, metropolitan of Lviv (1892-1984)

Slovo o polku igoreva: Lay of Igor's Campaign

Smela

Smidovich, P.G. (d. 1935)

Smirnov, Ivan

Smogorzhevsky , Iason (Smohozhevsky, Smogorzewski, 1714-1788)

so-called

sobor: church council

sobornost (spiritual community)

sobornye: the seven catholic (sobornye) epistles

social class (soslovie)

Social Democrats

Socialist Revolutionary party

socially-minded; socially-minded priests

Society for Religious and Moral Enlightenment.

Society for the Encouragement of Moral and Spiritual Reading

Society for the Restoration of Orthodox Christianity

Society of Friends of Ancient Literature: Obshchestvo liubitelei drevnei pismennosti

Society of the Red Cross, the

socio-economic conditions

Socrates (c.380-c.450)

Sofrony (secular name, Stepan Trifonov Zhirov)

soglasie. concord

soglasiia: compacts, sects

Sokolov, Boris (d. 1928), Archbishop

Sokolov, Ti Khon (r. 1763-1767) of Voronezh

Solomonia Saburova (d. 1542)

Soloviev, Sergei Mikhailovich (1820-1879)

Soloviev, Vladimir (1853-1900)

Solovki : the monastery at Solovki

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander (b. 1918)

Son of Heaven, emperor of China

sopherim (scribes and commentators)

Sophia Alexeevna: Tsarevna Sophia (1657-1704) (regent, 1682-1689)

Sophia: Zoe (Sophia) Paleologus (d. 1503), married Ivan III (1472)

sorcerers (kudesniki)

soslovie: social class

soulless

southcentral

southeast

Soviet Information Bureau (Sovinformbureau)

Soviet of People's Commissars of the RSFSR (Sovnarkom, 1917-1920)

Soviet of Workers' Deputies

Sovnarkom , 1917-1920

Sovremenny mir (The Contemporary World)

Sozeresh, god of planting

Sozh: river Sozh

Spathary, Nicholas (1636-1708)

Spasso-Preobrazhenskii: Transfiguration of the Savior

Speransky, Mikhail (1772-1839)

Spiridon (r. 1230-1249)

Spiritual Christians

spiritual attainment (podvig)

Sremski Karlovci (formerly Karlowitz)

Sretenie gospodne, Presentation of the Lord

SSRs

St. Petersburg Ecclesiastical Academy

St. Petersburg Religious-Philosophical Society

Stackelberg, Otto Magnus (1736-1800)

Stalin : Josef Stalin (1879-1953); Stalin's time (1928-1953)

Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukrainian SSR)

Stanislav and Kolomyia: archbishop of Stanislav and Kolomyia

Stanislaw II August Poniatowski (1732-1798, r. 1764-1795)

Stankevich , Nikolai (1813-1840)

Staraia Russa: bishop of Staraia Russa

starchestvo: eldership

starets: elder

State Council, state councilor

state secretary (diak)

state-sponsored; state-sponsored church

stauropigial (Russian, stavropigial'nyi),

from the Greek words stauros, cross, and pegnumi, fix,

Stefan (d. 1094) abbot of caves monastery of Kiev, 1074-1078

Stefan Bathory (1533-1586)

Stefan Vonifatiev (d. 1656)

Stefan Yavorsky of Riazan (1658-1722)

Stephen of Perm (1348?-1395), Saint

Stepennaia kniga:

Book of Degrees of the Imperial Genealogy (Stepennaia kniga tsarskogo rodosloviia)

Stepniak-Kravchinsky, Sergei M. (1851-1895)

stepping-stone

Stern, Lina

steward (ekonom)

Stoglav: council of the Hundred Chapters

stole, bishop's, epitrakhil' ; deacon's. orar

stoitel' superior

stolnik: a designation which signified the honor of serving as personal attendant to the ruler

Stolypin, Peter (1862-1911)

storehouse manager, cellarer (kelar')

straits: the Turkish straits

streltsy: musketeers

Stribog

Strigolniks

Struve,Peter B. (1870-1944)

student-preachers

Studite Regulation (Studiiskii ustav)

Sturdze, Alexander S. (1791-1854)

Suburbs Statute (posadskoe stroenie)

Sudebnik. 1550 Law Code

Sufi brotherhoods, Muslim

sultan: Turkish sultan

Sunday antiphons (nedel'nye)

Sunnite Muslim, Sunnites, Sunnism

superintendent (inspektor)

superior (nachalnik); superior (stoitel')

Supreme Privy Council (Verkhovnyi tainyi sovet) (1725-1730)

Surhan-Darya region

Sviatogor, the giant Sviatogor

Sviatopolk Vladimirovich (978?-1019)

Sviatopolk-Mirsky, Peter Danilovich (1857-1914)

Sviatoslav, Prince (r. 1073-1076)

Sviatovit, Slavic deity

Sviiaga river

Svir river

Symeon (893-927); Tsart

synagogue-going Jews

Synaxis of the Most Holy Mother of God

synod of Lviv (1946)

synod of Polotsk (1839)

synod of Zamosc (1720)

synod: Most Holy Governing Synod (or Holy Synod)

T

Tahir, Afzal (1890-1938)

Tahmasp I (r. 1524-1576)

Tainyi prikaz: the Privy Chancellery (Tainyi prikaz)

Tajiks, Tajik SSR,Tajikistan

Tanri, or Tengri

Tanzimat

Tarkovsky, Andrei A. (1932-1986)

TASS

Tatar: the Tatar Horde

Tatarinov, Alexander Alexeevich (1817-1886)

Tatarinov : the Skoptsy's prophetess Ekaterina Tatarinov (1783-1856)

Tauride province

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893)

Te Deum

teacher-training

Techiya (Revival)

Teheran

Teimuraz Erakles-dze Bagrationi (1764?-1827)

Teimuraz Ieses-dze Batonishvili (1721-1788)

Temirgoi (Kemirgoi)

Temporary Rules of May 1882

Ten Commandments

tent (shater)

Terletsky, Kirill (d. 1607)

Thebaid: Russia's "northern Thebaid,"

Theodore (759-826) of the Studion monastery in Constantinople

Theodore Abu Qurrah, Arab Christian bishop of Harran (c.740-820)

Theodore of Tiron, Saint

Theodoret (c.393-466)

Theodosius of the Caves: see Feodosy

Theodosius the Great (r. 379-395)

Theognost, Metropolitan (r. 1328-1353)

Theolyptus II, patriarch (r. 1585-1586)

Theophanes the Greek (c.1340-1405)

Theotokos (Mother of God)

Third Rome

Third Section, the; political police of the Third Section

Third World

this-worldly

Thomas: the day of Saint Thomas

Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274)

three half-columns

three-finger blessing (treoeperstnoe znamenie)

Tianjin (Tientsin) of 1858, treaty of

Tikhon Filatiev

Tikhon of Moscow (1865-1925); Patriarch Tikhon (r. 1917-1925);

canonized, 1989; secular name Vasily Belavin (1865-1925)

Tikhon of Zadonsk (1724-1783)

Tikhvin: Tikhvin Mother of God,the

Time of Troubles (1598-1613)

Timofei (d. 1131), abbot of Kievan caves monastery, 1124-1131

Timofei (1782-1862)

Timofei Shcherbatsky (d. 1767) abbot of Kievan caves, 1740-1748

Timoshenko, Mikhail Danilovich (b. 1888)

Timur (Tamerlane, 1336-1405)

Tiridates, see Trdat

Tiumen

Tiutchev, Fedor (1803-1873)

Tobolsk : archbishop of Tobolsk

Togan, Zeki Velidi (1890-1970)

Toilers of the East, Baku congress of the (September 1920)

Toktamysh (d. 1406)

toleration, decree of (17 April 1905)

Tolga monastery, the (Tol'gskii)

Tolstoians

Tolstoy, Alexis N. (1883-1945)

Tolstoy, Dmitry A. (1823-1889)

Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910)

Tolstoy, Alexis (1883-1945)

Torah (scriptural law)

Tormasov, Alexander (1752-1819)

Toropets

tosofat

Totleben, Eduard I. (1818-1884); General

Toussenel, Alphonse (1803-1885)

townsmen (meshchane)

trade-off

Transfiguration of the Lord

Trans-Siberian railroad

Transbaikal

Transcaucasus

trans-Volga elders

Trdat (250-330, r. 298-330), King

treasure trove (2 words)

treaty: treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji,

(1774); treaty of Georgievsk (1783); treaty of Kiakhta (14 June 1728); treaty of Gulistan (1813); treaty of Turkmanchai (1828); Adrianople (1829); treaty of Riga (1921); treaty of Aigun (1858)

Trebnik: prayer book; trans. as Typikon

Tree of Jesse

Tregubov, I.M. (1858-1932)

Trent, council of (April 1546)

treoeperstnoe znamenie: three-fingere blessing

Tretiakov Art Gallery in Moscow

trezvenniki: Abstainers

Trifon (d. 1468), Bishop

Trikka: Thessalian city, modern Trikala

Trinity-Elijah (Troitskii-Iliinskii) monastery

Trinity monastery of Saint Antony of Siia

Triodion, liturgical book

Trotsky, Leon (1879-1940),

Trotskyite

Troyan

Trubetskoy, Prince Dmitry (d. 1625)

True Orthodox Christians (istino-pravoslavnye)

tsaddik, or zaddik, Jewish "righteous man"

Tsymbal, Yuhim (or Efim) (d. 1880)

Tukhachevsky,M.N. (1893-1937)

Tula and Belev, diocese of

tunics (svitka)

turkicization

Turkish sultan

Turkistan, movement for the national liberation of á(Basmachi)

Turkistan National Unity society

Turkmanchai, treaty of (1828)

Turkmens, Turkmen SSR

turn-of-the-century

Tver (now the city of Kalinin)

Twelver Shiism

twenty-fifth day

two-dimensional

two-fingered sign of the cross (dvuperstnoe znamenie)

two thirds

two-volume

U

Ubeydulla (Gubeydulla, b. 1865)

uezd: "district"

Uighurs

ukaz: "order"

Ukhtomsky, Alexis Alexeevich (1875-1942)

Ukhtomsky, Dmitry Vasilevich (1719-1775)

Ukhtomsky, Esper Esperovich (1861-1921)

Ukraine, west bank

Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox church

Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox church

Ukrainian Eastern Rite Catholics

Ukrainian-trained clergy

ulema (Muslim scholars, or council of scholars)

Ulozhenie: Law Code

ultraconservative

umma.: Islamic unity of all believers

undereducated

Unger, Abraham (1820-1880)

Uniate: Eastern Rite Catholic (Uniate); (Catholics who followed the Orthodox rite)

Union of Artists

Union of Brest (1596); Union of Florence (1439);

the union (not capitalized when city name is omitted); do not use "unia" when referring to the union.

Union of Church Regeneration

Union of Evangelical Christians (founded 1909)

Union of Krevas (1386)

Union of Lublin (1569)

Union of Militant Atheists (Soiuz voinstvuiushchikh bezbozhnikov)

Union of Russian Baptists (founded 1884)

Union of Russian People

Union of Societies for Religious Laborers (Soiuz religiozno-trudovykh obshchin)

(founded 1922 by Belkov)

unionwide

United Council of Religious Societies and Groups

(Ob"edinennyi sovet religioznykh obshchin i grupp, OSROG)

United Nations

unordained: see "clergy"

Upper Lavra, of the caves monastery in Kiev

Urban V (r. 1362-1370)

Uspensky, Gleb (1843-1902)

Ustiug the Great (Ustiug Velikii)

utrenia: matins

Uvarov, Count S.S. (1786-1855)

Uzbeks, Uzbek SSR, Uzbekistan

V

Vaga (vazhskii)

Vakhtang I (c.466-522)

Vakhtang VI (1675-1737, r. 1703-1714, 1716-1724),

king of east Georgia kingdom of Kartli

Valaam island monastery

Valdemar II, king of Denmark (r. 1202-1241)

Valuev, Peter A. (1814-1890) [MERSH has b.1815]

Vardan Mamigonian, Saint (d. 451)

Vardanantz, battle of the (451), on the plain of Avarayr

Varlaam (d. 1105) (abbot of Kiev caves)

Varlaam (d. 1065), abbot of Kievan caves monstery, 1052-1062

Varlaam Vonatovich (1688-1751)

Varlaam Vysotsky (d. 1737), Archimandrite

Varlaam, metropolitan of Kiev (r. 1690-1707)

Varlaam, metropolitan of Moscow (r. 1511-1521)

Varlaam (d. 1601), metropolitan of Novgorod

Varlaam (r. 1583-1586); Archbishop of Krutitsa

Varlaam, Saint (d. 1193)

Varlaam Yasinsky (d. 1707), abbot of Kievan caves, 1684-1690

Varlam Petrov (r. 1768-1802)

Vasilevsky Island

Vasily I (r. 1389-1425)

Vasily II (r. 1425-1462)

Vasily III, Grand Prince (r. 1505-1533)

Vasily Kalika (r. 1331-1352), Novgorod

Vasily Logvinenko

Vasily Luzhansky (d. 1879)

Vasily Shuisky (r. 1606-1610)

Vassian Patrikeev (1470?-1532?)

veche, village assembly, city assembly

vechernia: evening service, vespers

vechnaia pamiat': Eternal Memory

Veles

Velikiia minei-chetii: the Great Menaion (Velikiia minei-chetii)

Veniamin Kazansky (1873-1922), metropolitan

Veniamin Fedchenkov (1880-1961), Archbishop

Veniamin Novitsky (1900-1976)

Veniamin of Kolomna and Kashira (r. 1730-1743)

Veniaminov, Ivan (1797-1879), Metropolitan Innokenty

Verkhnekamchatsk

verst = .6 miles (1.06 km)

Vestnik evropy (the European Herald) no italics

Vetka: Old Believer colony of

Vetrianka

vicar (namestnik)

vicar bishop: vicar bishop of Cheboksary; vicar bishop of Ostrih in Volyn diocese

vicariate: auxiliary diocese

vice president (two words, no hyphen)

Vik, Boris Ivanovich (1906-1965)

Vikulin, Danilo (1653-1733)

village assembly: (veche) (zemstvo); village assemblies (zemstva, pl.)

Vilna (Vilnius)

Vilna Gaon

Vilnius (formerly Vilna)

Vincent de Paul Society, Saint .

Virgin Mary, the Virgin, the Blessed Virgin

Visitation, the

Viskovaty, Ivan (d. 1570)

Vital, Hayyim ben Joseph (1542-1620)

Vlademar II of Denmark (r. 1202-1241)

Vladikavkaz (now Ordzhonikidze)

Vladimir (c. 956-1015, r. 978-1015)

Vladimir Bogoiavlensky (1848-1918) of Kiev

Vladimir Monomakh (1053-1125), (r. 1113-1125)

Vladimir of Pskov (b. 1929)

Vladimir of Rostov (b. 1935)

Vladimir-Suzdal

Vladimirovich, Sviatopolk (978?-1019)

Vladimirovich, Yury (c. 1090-1157); prince

Vladislavich-Raguzinsky, Sava (c. 1670-1738), count

Vlahovic , Danilo bishop in Bukovina (1789-1822)

Voinstvuiushchii ateizm (Militant Atheism)

Volga river

Volhynia, Volyn diocese, Volyn province

Volkhov river, the

volkhvy: pagan shamens (volkhvy)

Volkonsky, Zinaida Alexandrovna (1792-1862)

Vologda

Volos, or Veles

Voltaire (1694-1778)

Volunteer Army, the

Volyn

von der Ropp, Baron Edward (1851-1939)

Vonofatiev, Stefan (d. 1656)

Voprosy nauchnogo ateizma (Problems of Scientific Atheism)

Voronaev, Ivan (1886-1938?)

Voronezh and Zadonsk, diocese of

Voronezh diocese

Voronin, Nikita (1840-1905)

Vorontsov, Mikhail S. (1782-1856)

Vorovsky, Vatzlav (1871-1923)

Vostorgov, Ioann Ioannovich (1867-1918)

Votiaks

Vramshapuh (r. 401-409)

vsednevnye: weekday antiphons

vseedinstvo, panunity

Vsevolod Georgievich, Grand Prince (r. 1176-1212)

Vsevolod Yaroslavich (r. 1078-1093)

vvedenskii, the Presentation, the cemetery of the Presentation (vvedenskii)

Vvedensky, Alexander I. (1888-1946)

Vyborg fortress,the

Vyshinsky, Andrei (1883-1954)

Vysokogorsk Ascension hermitage, the

Vysotsky monastery in Serpukhov

Vysotsky, Vladimir (1938-1980)

W

Waldegrave, A.W. (Radstock) (1833-1913)

Wallachia

Walsh , Edmund A. (1885-1956)

waqf properties (religious endowments)

warmhearted

Warsaw. Confederation of Warsaw (1573)

week-long siege

weekday antiphons (vsednevnye)

well-being

well-developed

well-documented

well-known

well-to-do class, the

well: hyphenated when combined with participle in attributive position

West, the

west bank Ukraine

western:

western Catholics; western Christian; western filioque in the creed; western Georgia (Imereti);western civilization

westernizing

White armies

Whitechapel

White City (Belyi gorod or Kitai-gorod)

white (lower) clergy; white (secular) clergy

White Lake district

White Lake hermitage of Saint Porfiry (belozerskaia porfir'eva pustyn')

Whites (anti-Bolsheviks), the

wide-eyed

widespread

Wiebe, Gehard (1827-1900)

Wiebe, Heinrich (1839-1897)

Wieler, Johann G. (1835-1889)

wilderness monastery (pustyn)

William of Norwich (1132-1144)

Wis. = Wisconson

Witte, Sergei (1849-1915)

Wladyslaw

Wladyslaw IV (1595-1648, r. 1632-1648)

Wolff, Christian (1679-1754)

wonder-working

World Conference on Soviet Jewry

World Council of Churches

world-class

world view

World War I, World War II

worldwide

Wrangel, Peter, Baron (1878-1928)

X

Y

Yad Vashem

Yakir, Iona (1896-1937)

Yakov

Yakov, Saint (d. 1391)

Yanyshev, Father Ioann (1826-1910)

yarlyk: the charter (yarlyk)

Yaroslav the Wise (r. 1019-1054)

Yaroslavich, Grand Prince (r.1078-1093)

Yaroslavl

Yaroslavl Church District.

Yaroslavsky, Emelian (pseudonym of Minei Israelevich Gubelman, 1878-1943)

Yassy, see Jassy

Yemish, protector of the flocks

Yerevan

yeshivah (Jewish religious school)

Yiddish

Yiddish State Musical Theater

youth: Communist Youth League

Yuan Dynasty (1274-1368)

Yultiy, Daut (1893-1937)

Yung Chen (r. 1723-1725); emperor

Yunie bezbozhniki (Young Atheists)

Yuriev (now Tartu, Estonia)

Yurievich, Andrei (1111?-1174); Prince

Yury (Iurii)

Yuschinsky, Andrei (1898-1911)

Yuvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna (b. 1935)

Z

Zacharias-Elizabeth church in Petrograd

zachala: lections

zaddikism (tsadikizm)

Zaikonospassky monastery

Zakhary Kopystensky (d. 1627), abbot of Kievan caves monastery (1624-1626)

zakomaras: shaped like a cross section of the onion dome

(called ogee zakomaras); or bonnet shaped eves (zakomary, pl.)

zakon bozhii, religious instruction, Orthodox doctrine

Zamosc, synod of (1720)

Zamoyski, Jan (1542-1605)

Zaporozhe Cossacks,the

Zarudny, Alexander Sergeevich (b. 1863)

Zbyruisky, Dionisy (Sbiruisky) (d. 1604)

Zealots of Piety (revniteli blagochestiia)

zemskii sobor: assembly of the land, the

zemstvo: village or provincial assembly, civil council

Zeno (r. 474-491)

Zhdanov, Andrei (1896-1948)

Zhezl pravleniia: The Staff of Governance

Zhidkov, Yakov (1885-1966)

Zhidovstvuiushchie: Judaizers

Zhitomir and Ovruch: bishop of Zhitomir and Ovruch

Zhuralev, Andrei Ioannov (d. 1813)

Zinoviev, Grigory (1883-1936)

Zionism

Zizany, Stefan

Znamenie: cathedral of the Sign (Znamenie) of the Virgin

znamenny music (znamennyi raspev)

Zoe (Sophia) Paleologus (d. 1503)

Zoshchenko, Mikhail (1895-1958)

Zosima Valkevich (d. 1793), abbot of Kievan caves, 1762-1786

Zvenigorod

Zweifel, Eliezer (1815-1888)

Zubko, Antony (1797-1884)

Zyrians