Golubinsky Eugeny

Golubinsky Eugeny (1834–1912) – cclesiastic historian.

He was born in the family of Priest Evstigney Peskov in Kostroma; he gave his son surname Golubinsky in honour of Russian philosopher Archpriest F. A. Golubinsky.

He learnt at a spiritual school in Soligalich, than he was sent to the Kostroma Spiritual Seminary; after it he enrolled to the Moscow Spiritual Academy and got state grant for education. His Master thesis was on the relations between Church and State in Byzantium in the Fourth – Sixth Centuries; later it was published in the magazine of the Moscow Spiritual Academy. A year earlier G. got a position of teacher in Rhetoric at the Vifanskaya Seminary. In January 1861, he became Bachelor of the Moscow Spiritual Academy at the Chair of the History of Russian Church. He studied the history of Orthodoxy in Central Europe and Balkans; the results were presented in two big books: ‘Stt Constantine and Methodius, Apostles of Slavs’ (1867) and ‘Short Essay on the History of Orthodox Churches of Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania or Moldova-Wallachia’ (1871). In 1880, G. prepared his Doctor thesis in Theology ‘The History of Russian Church’. Because of political circumstances (death of Emperor Aleksander II), he got his Doctor degree only a year later. He has never finished the second volume. In his late years G. published a new edition of his book on St Sergius of Radonezh. He died in January 1912 in Sergiev Posad and was buried at the cemetery of the Moscow Spiritual Academy.

Compositions

The History of Russian Church. Vol. I, The First Period, Kievan, or Premongolian; part 2, Moscow, E. Lissner and Yu Roman Typography, 1881, 791 p. (in Rus.)
On the Way of Actions of Orthodox Greek and Roman Rulers in the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Centuries For the Sake of the Church, Against Heretics and Dissenters // Supplement to the Publication of Compositions by the Church Fathers in Russian Translation. Moscow, 1859. (in Rus.)
Short Essay on the History of Orthodox Churches of Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania or Moldova- Wallachia. Moscow University, 1871. (in Rus.)
Essay on the History of Enlightenment among Greeks from the Time of Fall of Constantinople from Turks up to the Current Century // Pravoslavnoe obozrenie, Moscow, 1872. (in Rus.)
The History of the Altar Wall or Iconostasis in Orthodox Churches: The Article Pronounced at the 2nd Archeological Council in St. Petersburg on December 17, 1871 // Pravoslavnoe obozrenie, Moscow, 1872. (in Rus.)
Christianity in Russia before St Vladimir // ZhMNP, St. Petersburg, 1876. (in Rus.)

Bibliography

A List of Works by Acad. Е. Е. Golybinsky (1859-1911) // Polunov А. Yu., Soloviev I. V. Life and Works by Acad. Е. Е. Golybinsky. Moscow, Krutitskoe Patriarshee Podvorie, 1998. (in Rus.)

About him

Afanasiev V. V. Eugeny Evstigneevich Golybinsky // Pamiatniki Otechestva, 1988, No 1, pp. 152. (in Rus.)
Polunov А. Yu., Soloviev I. V. Life and Works by Acad. Е. Е. Golybinsky. Moscow, Krutitskoe Patriarshee Podvorie, 1998. (in Rus.)
Tsvetkov P. Prof. Eugeny Evstigneevich Golybinsky // Bogoslovskyi vestnik. 1912, No 1, pp. 2. (in Rus.)

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