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Irenaeus (Klementyevsky Ioann Andreevich, 1753-1818), Archbishop of Pskov, Livonia and Courland-spiritual writer, preacher, translator, member of the Russian Academy. He studied at the Moscow Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, was there as a teacher, later hegumen in different monasteries, preached in the court church in the presence of Empress Catherine II; from 1792 Bishop of Tver, since 1796 Archbishop of Pskov. There is a legend according to which Emperor Paul I made him his Adjutant General, granting him anxelbants.
Famous writer n.With. Maevsky c "family memories" 1881 gave a description of the Grace Irenaeus. "It was a magnificent handsome old man, with a friendly smile and meek expression of smart brown eyes. From him, it blows a sense of some sincere purely related greeting. He was a person known in due time… At the same time, he was distinguished by extraordinary simplicity, was not devoid of a sense of humor. As the cook Faddeich recalls him, once in the presence of the guests, a piglet was served to the table on the dish. Bishop, looking at the cook, crossed the dish with a big cross and said: "This pigle will turn to crucian carp", and the first first began to eat with appetite".
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