PLATON, LEVSHIN (1737-1812)

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PLATON, LEVSHIN (1737-1812) ,

Russian

RUSSIAN

divine, was born at Chashnikovo near Moscow, and educated in the

academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

of that city. In 1763 the empress Catherine II. invited him to instruct her son Paul in theology, and he became one of the

court

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

chaplains. 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

METROPOLITAN (Lat. metropolitanus, Gr. µnrpoiroXtrns)

. He died in 1812, one of his last acts having been to write an encouraging

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the
alphabet
- ALPHABET (see also WRITING)
; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

to the emperor Alexander I. in view of the French invasion. Platen was a brilliant and learned man, and the author of several works which enjoyed a high reputation in their time, including A Short History of the

Russian

RUSSIAN

Church

, which has been translated into

English

ENGLISH

.

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