LIVES

OF

EMINENT RUSSIAN PRELATES.

LIVES

OF

EMINENT RUSSIAN PRELATES:

I. NIKON,

SIXTH PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW.

II. SAINT DEMETRIUS,

METROPOLITAN OF ROSTOFF.

III. MICHAEL,

METROPOLITAN OF NOVGOROD AND S. PETERSBURG.

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NOTICE.

THE Lives of S. Demetrius and Michael in this volume are simply translations from the Russian, for which the Editor is indebted to the Rev. R. W. Blackmore, Rector of Donhead S. Mary, in the Diocese of Sarum. The Life of Nikon and the Introduction have been compiled from English materials, by the Rev. R. Thornton, Fellow of S. John's College, Oxford.