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In 1685, Ivan Samoylovich, the hetman of the Left-Bank Ukraine, ordered a set of liturgical vessels and a treasure binding of a Gospel in the tsar’s workshop of the Moscow Kremlin to donate them to the Kyev Pechersk Lavra in memory of his deceased daughter Praskovia and son Semen. Main elements of the liturgical set, a chalice and paten, have been preserved to the present day, being exhibited in The Treasury of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine. Both chalice and paten were seriously damaged during the Great Patriotic War. For a very long time, they were considered to have been made by Ukrainian craftsmen and only recently, were attributed as masterpieces to masters of the Moscow Kremlin’s workshop, which is proven by art style, the technology, enamels etc. In the paper, this conclusion is supported by the correspondence between Samoylovich and prince Vasiliy Golitsyn, the head of the Posolsky prikaz, where the hetman’s order was discussed. These sources also mention that in 1685–1686, Samoylovich ordered in Moscow a treasure binding of the Gospel, which perhaps did not survive. The liturgical set ordered by Samoylovich was very similar to the most luxurious sets which had been manufactured for members of the Romanov dynasty in the second half of the 1670s — the first half of the 1680s. The attribution of the chalice and the paten of Samoylovich to Kremlin’s craftsmen, proven by written sources, makes it possible to put forward the hypothesis about a Russian influence on Ukrainian gold and silversmith.
DOI: 10.31168/2305-6754.2026.1.06
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