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The article focuses on the previously unknown work of one of the most prolific Russian writers of the first half of the 17th century, Semyon Ivanovich Shakhovskoy.
The gathering, which survived as part of a compiled collection, contains a contemporary copy of the story of a miracle that took place on the night of 2 August 1646 in the Assumption Cathedral in Veliky Ustyug: in a fire caused by an unextinguished candle, a venerated icon of the Virgin Mary survived, which became the incentive for creating the work. The story is replete with rhetorical clichés, as well as quotations from the apostolic epistles, and vividly illustrates the writing style of Shakhovskoy, who encrypted his name in the afterword to the text.
The story, written by a direct witness of the event, allows us to correct the dating of the fire accepted in historiography (1631), explain the origin of the mistake and clarify the facts regarding the restructuring of the main cathedral of the city.
The text of the story is presented with a simplification of the spelling of the 17th century manuscript.
DOI: 10.31168/2305-6754.2023.2.06
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