Biography Morozova Feodosiya Prokofyevna

Morozova Feodosiya Prokofyevna (a monk Theodore) (died 1672) – famous Believer since Alexis venerated as a saint splitters. Born Sokovnin, she 17 years old was married to nobleman Gleb Ivanovich Morozov (brother of the famous Boris Morozov), is one of the first places at the royal court. Left alone after the early death of her husband a widow, she gave herself wholeheartedly religion and for piety and was soon obsessed priest Avvakum into schism. With ardent enthusiastic about teaching the dissenters, it attracted him and his sister Eudoxia, Princess Urusov, but she was secretly tonsured. Neither persuasion ecclesiastical and secular authorities, or imprisonment and cruel tortures could not distract her from the division; then she and her sister was sent to Vorovsk and imprisoned in an earthen prison, where it was starved to death in 1672 Wed Tikhonravov, "Boyarynia M." ("Russian Messenger", 1865, ¼ 9); "Life M." (In "Materials for the history of the division," ed. N. Subbotin, v. 8); message to her archpriest Habakkuk (that is, v. 5).