Confirmation letter of Peter I of 1708 regarding the appointment of Joasaph (Krokovsky) to the Kyiv Metropolis: history, provenance and publication of the document
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https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2018.05.136Keywords:
confirm charter, Peter I, Yoasaf (Krokovskyi), Kyiv Metropolis, provenience, Saint Sophia Cathedral, cultural values.Abstract
The article deals with the history of provenience of a charter issued by Peter I. The charter of 1708 confirms Yoasaf (Krokovskyi) as metropolitan of Kyiv, and it was taken from Kyiv during the World War II. Since 1958 the charter has been in possession of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany). The provenience of this charter as well other charters, stored in the sacristy of St. Sophia-Cathedral of Kyiv, and its fate after the war are researched. The full and proved text of the charter is published for the firs time. Peter I charter of 1708 was the last royal charter for the freely elected Metropolitan of Kyiv, Yoasaf (Krokovskyi). It confirmed the rights and privileges granted previously to the Metropolitan Hedeon (Chetvertynskyi, 1686) and Varlaam (Yasynskyi, 1691), and also ratified the status of the Kyiv Metropolita as the “first” among all Metropolia belonging to the Moscow Patriarchate. The canonical territory of the Kyiv Metropolitan, however, was considerably reduced in comparison with 1686. The Archbishopric of Chernihiv and the Kyiv-Pechersk Monastery were out of the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan; in his power remained the Kyiv and the Pereiaslav dioceses, as well as the Hlukhiv, Borzna and Konotop protopopias previously belonging to Chernihiv diocese. The charter was stored in the sacristy of the Kyiv-Sofia Cathedral till 1922, when the library of the Kyiv-Sofia Cathedral, where it was already with the others charters from the sacristy, was transferred to the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences; in 1931, the manuscripts of the Kyiv-Sofia Library were transferred to the Department of Manuscripts of the National Library of Ukraine (now the V.Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine). In October 1941 it was withdrawn from there most likely by the Sonderkommando Künsberg along with at least 24 other documents from the sacristy of the St. Sophia Cathedral; the storage place of most of them remains unknown till nowadays.
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