Pavsky G.P. (1787-1863), Archpriest

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PAVSKY Gerasim Petrovich (1787, Churchyard of Pava of St. Petersburg province - 1863, St. Petersburg), archpriest, philologist and church historian, Doctor of Theology (1821), member of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1858). After graduating from St. Petersburg Theological Academy (1814), he taught there for the next twenty years at the chair of the Department of Yiddish, as well as at St. Petersburg University at the Chair of Theology (from 1819 to 1826). In 1815, he was ordained as a priest of Kazan Cathedral. In 1826, he started teaching Holy Scriptures and later became the confessor of Tsarevich Alexander Nikolaevich (future Emperor Alexander II). From 1814 to 1826, he was a member of the Biblical Society. Pavsky wrote a number of works on the problems of Russian philology, history of the church, and the methodology of teaching religion; in addition, he translated into Russian several separate books of the Bible and a number of patristic works. From 1836, he lived in the Taurida Palace where he held divine services in the domestic chapel. He was buried at the cemetery of the Porcelain Factory (the grave has not been preserved).

References: Родосский А. В. Ученейший человек своего времени // С.-Петерб. ун-т. 1996. № 26. С. 15-16; Русские писатели-богословы: Биобиблиогр. указ. М., 1999. Вып. 2. С. 161-166.

T. A. Bogdanova. Alexander II, Emperor
Pavsky Gerasim Petrovich, Protopresbyter
Русские писатели-богословы: Биобиблиогр. указ. М., 1999
Родосский А. В. Ученейший человек своего времени // С.-Петерб. ун-т, 1996 Russian Academy of Sciences
Theological Academy
State University, St. Petersburg
Kazan Cathedral
Biblical Society
Tauride Palace
Lomonosov Porcelain Factory
Lomonosov Porcelain Factory