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A.G. Avdeev, А.V. Engovatova (Moscow) – Burial of Ivan Andreevich Buturlin in the Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery: to the Question of the Date of Execution and Posthumous Fate of the Disgraced Man

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The article, written as part of the scientific project “Corpus Inscriptionum Rossicarum”, is a publication of a white-stone tombstone with an epitaph to Ivan Andreevich Buturlin. The monument was found in situ in 2007 during archaeological observations in the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, to the east of the southern narthex of the Assumption Cathedral. Under the slab, an undisturbed burial of an adult man was partially cleared, who had a broken fifth cervical vertebra, and all the teeth on the lower jaw and the front teeth on the upper jaw were knocked out approximately three months before his death. The epitaph made it possible to identify the discovered remains with the boyar Ivan Andreevich Buturlin, executed in the case of “treason” against Leonid, the Novgorod Archbishop, and to establish that he was executed on October 22, 1575, which was not known from other sources. Thus, the epitaph under study, in combination with archaeological, annalistic, hagiographic and memorial sources, provides important material for understanding the events of the internal political history of Russia in the last decade of Ivan the Terrible’s reign.

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Epigraphy of Moscow Russia, Corpus Inscriptionum Rossicarum, Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, archaeological excavations, necropolis, Buturliny, Ivan the Terrible’s terror, funeral culture.

Aleksander G. Avdeev, Orthodox St.-Tikhon’s University, Moscow, Russia; Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Аsya V. Engovatova, Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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