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Историческая справка

The Epiphany Monastery is one of the oldest male monasteries in Moscow. It was founded by Daniel, the first prince of Moscow, around 1296. It is also believed that a would-be metropolitan Alexis became one of its monks in 1313. Stefan, Sergii Radonezhski's older brother, was the first recorded hegumen of this cloister.

In 1680-1687, the Epiphany Monastery was home to a school of the Likhud brothers, which would later be transferred to the Zaikonospassky monastery and transformed into the famous Slavic Greek Latin Academy, the first higher education institution of Russia.

Ioannicus and Sophronius Likhud were two Greek monks from Cephalonia, descendants of the Byzantine royal family. The brothers received their education at the Padua University in Italy. They arrived in Moscow on March 6, 1685, where they were given a warm welcome by Prince Vasily Galitzine (the head of Regent Sophia's government).

There were no estate privileges for students at the Academy: both the offspring of aristocratic families and merchant children, and even people of the simplest rank, could study there. The course lasted 12 years and was divided into stages with unusual names: the four primary classes were called "fara", "infirma", "grammar" and "syntaxima", the middle classes - "piitika" and "rhetoric", the higher - "philosophy" and "theology". By the way, students studied all year round without any summer holidays.

The Likhud brothers greatly influenced the development of education in Russia as they compiled textbooks on grammar, poetics, rhetoric, logic, physics, theology, wrote literary works, translations, preaching works, revised and corrected the Slavic text of the Old Testament. Ioannikios and Sophronios became teachers of many of the first Russian scientists such as: Fyodor Polikarpov, the author of one of the main Russian dictionaries of the 18th century, Doctor Peter Postnikov, the first Russian physiologist, Metropolitan Iov, the bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Palladiy Rogov, the first Russian Doctor of Philosophy and Theology who received a degree in Western Europe.

After Galitzine's fall from grace the Likhud brothers were removed from the Academy on charges of "latinism". The brothers moved their educational activities to Novgorod. After Ioannikios' death in 1717, Sophronios was sent to administer the Solotcha Monastery near Ryazan where he was taunted by the brethren and had to confine himself to his cell.

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