Sylvester Medvedev

Sylvester (Russian: Сильвестр, romanized: Silvestr; secular name: Simeon Agafonovich Medvedev; 6 February 1641 – 21 February 1691) was a Russian writer, poet, and theologian.^[1] He was a student of Simeon of Polotsk.^[2]

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Life

Sylvester was born in Kursk;^[2] he was first a podyachy in Kursk and then Moscow.^[3]^[4]

In 1665, he entered the newly established Slavic Greek Latin Academy of Simeon of Polotsk (1629–1680) in the Zaikonospassky Monastery, where he learnt Latin, poetics and rhetoric.^[1] After Simeon's death, Sylvester re-established the school. In 1687, the school and the printing press schools were merged to form the Slavic Greek Latin Academy.^[5]

Sylvester supported Sophia (r. 1682–1689) during her regency and promoted the Roman Catholic understanding of the Eucharist,^[6] which led to theological disputes during the 1680s.^[7] In 1690, a sobor of the Russian Orthodox Church condemned the views of the Westernizing party.^[6] After Sophia's overthrow, Sylvester was executed for high treason against Tsar Peter I. He was buried at the Zaikonospassky Monastery.

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Sylvester Medvedev

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