LEVSHIN PLATON (1737-1812)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V21,
Page 825
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
LEVSHIN PLATON (1737-1812)
, Russian divine, was born at Chashnikovo near Moscow, and educated in the academy of that city
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In 1763 the empress Catherine II. invited him to instruct her son Paul in theology, and he became one of the court chaplains
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Three years afterwards Platen was appointed arcllimandrite of the monastery of the Trinity (Troitskaya Lavra) near Moscow, in 1770 archbishop of Tver, and in 1787 archbishop of Moscow and metropolitan
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He died in 1812, one of his last acts having been to write an encouraging letter to the emperor Alexander I. in view of the French invasion
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Platen was a brilliant and learned man, and the author of several works which enjoyed a high reputation in their See also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
, including A Short History of the Russian See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
, which has been translated into English
.
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