Isidore – Metropolitan of Novgorod and the whole of Pomerania, before Superior Solovetsky monastery, a prominent figure in the Time of Troubles (see). Helped to Tsar Vasily Shumsky sign lucrative contract with a Swedish commander Delagardie, when the latter approached Novgorod, I. guided city protection and finally, I. sought Novgorod Mikhail Fedorovich forgiveness for forced [...]

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Joseph (1597 – 11.5.1671) – the first metropolitan of Astrakhan, was born in 1597 in Astrakhan, the same, was killed May 11, 1671 According to legend, was a child during the disturbances caused in Astrakhan stay Zarutsky and Marina Mnishek, he got hit in the head, from which he had all his life shook his [...]

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