Answers to Internet quiz questions

October 13, 2016

QUESTIONS:

1. What spiritual and political movement in the Russian Orthodox Church was Nil Sorsky an adherent of?

2. The wooden statues of four angels are presented in the permanent exhibition “History of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, Affiliated and Adjacent Cloisters”. What structure were they a part of?

3. What representatives of the Sheremetevs were buried in the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery and where were they buried?

ANSWERS:

1. Nil Sorsky was an adherent of the non-possessors.

2. The wooden statues of four angels presented in the permanent exhibition “History of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, Affiliated and Adjacent Cloisters” are a part of the carved gilded canopy built above the shrine of St. Nil Sorsky in 1865.

3. Eight members of the Sheremetevs were buried in the west parvis of the Dormition (Assumption) Cathedral in the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery: Ivan Vasilievich Bolshoi Sheremetev, his brothers Ivan Vasilievich Menshoi and Grigory Vasilievich; Ivan Bolshoi’s son Yeremey Ivanovich and daughter Princess Kaybalova; Ivan Menshoi’s son boyar Fyodor Ivanovich Sheremetev, his wife Yefrosinia and son Alexey Fyodorovich. Nikita Vasilievich executed by Ivan the Terrible in about 1563 was buried behind the sanctuary of the Dormition (Assumption) Cathedral.