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St. Peter's blessed prince (in the ancestry of David) and the Holy Princess Princess Fevronia (in the monothement of Euphrosinia) - Russian Orthodox Saints, Murom Wonderworkers.

The history of the life of the holy princes Peter and Fevronia is the story of loyalty, loyalty and real love who is able to sacrifice for the sake of his beloved person, tells the site of the temple of the Library Trinity on the Sparrow Mountains.

The love story of this marital couple is described in detail in detail the greatest author of the XVI century Yermolam Yerazm in the Old Russian "Tale of Peter and Fevronia". According to the "Tale", the spouses were reigning in Murom at the end of the 12th - early 13th centuries, they lived happily and died in one day.

Peter's blessed prince was the second son of Murom Prince Yuri Vladimirovich. He joined the Murom throne in 1203. A few years before that, Saint Peter fell ill with a leprosy - the body of the prince was covered with scape and ulcers. No one could heal Peter from a gravily disease. With humility transferring torment, the prince looked away to God.

In the sleepy vision, the prince was openly discovered that his daughter of the beekeeper was a pious Deva Fevronia, the peasant of the village affectionate in Ryazan land. Saint Peter sent his people to that village.

Fevronia as a treatment fee wished the prince married her after healing. Peter promised to marry, but he was listening to the soul, because Fevronia was a common woman: "Well, as it is possible, the prince of the daughter of the temolas to take himself to his wife!". Fevronia healed the prince, but since the daughter of the beekeeper was called the soreness and pride of Peter, she ordered him to leave the one lap as a testimony of sin. Soon, from this stamp, the whole disease resumed, and the prince with shame returned to Fevronia. Fevronia again cured Peter, and then he married her.

Together with the young princes Peter returns to Murom. Prince Peter loved Fevronia for piety, wisdom and kindness. Holy Spouses carried the love of each other through all the tests.

After the death of Brother Peter became a self-container in the city. The boyars respected their prince, but the arrogant boyar wives were Nevlonia, and, not wanting to have a part of themselves the peasant, they threw their husbands with unkind. Proud boyars demanded that the prince let go his spouse. Saint Peter refused, and spouses expelled. They sailed on the boat on the Oka from their native city. Saint Fevronia supported and comforted St. Peter. But soon the city of God has become Moor, and the people demanded that the prince returned with St. Fevronia. Ambassadors from Murom came, begging Peter to return to the prince. The boyars quarreled because of power, shed blood and now they were looking for peace and calm. Peter and Fevronia with humility returned to their city and ruled for a long time and happily, observing all the commandments and the instructions of the Lord perfectly, praying incessantly and alms to do all people who were under their power, as the calobic father and mother.

Holy Spouses were famous for piety and mercy. Were they have children - oral traditions did not bring information about it. Holiness they reached not many hours, but with the mutual love and storage of holiness of marriage. This is the meaning and appointment of it.

When old age came, they took a monasticism with the names of David and Euphrosinia and dismisted God to die at one time. To bury yourself together in a specially cooked coffin with a thin partition in the middle. Marriage vows Even after the post, they keep their strength for them, because they fulfill their last promise to each other - die at the same time.

They died on one day and an hour on June 25, 1228, Each in his cell. People considered the wicked to bury in one coffin of the monks and dreamed to break the will of the deceased. Twice their bodies were broadening in different temples, but twice they miraculously turned out to be nearby. So buried holy spouses together in one coffin near the Cathedral Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin. So, the Lord glorified not only his saints, but also captured the holiness and dignity of marriage, whose vows in this case were not lower than the inhang.

Peter and Fevronia were canonized at the Church Cathedral of 1547. The day of the saints is June 25 (July 8).

Saints Peter and Fevronia are a model of the Christian marriage. With their prayers, they reduce the heavenly blessing of the marriage.

The sainted princes Peter and Fevronia are revered by the Church as the patrons of Christian marriage.

Their relics are in Murom in Trinity Women's Monastery. The day of memory of Murom Wonderworkers in pre-revolutionary times was one of their main city-wide holidays. On this day, a fair took place in Murom, a lot of surrounding residents were glazed to the city. It can be rightfully to say that the relics of the holy princes were the city's highland shrine and the main orthodox symbol of the city.

In 2008, with the support of the wife of the Russian President Svetlana Medvedev, a new holiday was established - Day of Family, Love and FidelityPerforming on July 8 is the day of memory of the holy princes of Peter and Fevronia. This holiday is part of the forgotten tradition of our people. Previously, the engagement was performed on this day, and after the end of Petrov, a couple were crowned in the church.

The symbol of the holiday was simple and close to each chamomile - as a symbol of summer, warmth, comfort, purity and innocence.

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52 BC e. - Adopted date of the foundation of Paris.

303 - The Great Martyr Prokoki Caesarian

1283 - War of the Sicilian Evening: Aragon Fleet under the command of Admiral Rujsero Lauria, defeats the Anjui fleet in the battle of Malta.

1492 - The first maritime expedition from Europe to India sailed from Lisbon led by Vasco da Gama.

1573 - Boulogo Edict is the end of the 4-year war of French Catholics and Huguenots.

1618 - for the "rock" of the French Queen was executed Camericist Mary Medici.

1659 - Battle under Konotop.

1663 - English King Charles II approved by John Clark Royal Rhode Island Charter.

1686 - Austrian troops occupied by knocking out the Turks who owned the city from 1541.

1709 - the Poltava battle took place - the largest battle of the Great Northern War.

1710 - Proophylas Akinfiyevich Demidov, the Ural Breeder, the famous Chudak and the benefactor.

1716 - In the course of the Great Northern War, the battle occurred in Dunexalen between the Danish and Swedish squadron.

1758 - During the seven-year war in the North American theater of hostilities, a battle of Carillon occurred.

1767 - Pavel Vasilyevich Chichagov, Russian Admiral, Son Vasily Yakovlevich Chichagov, Maritime Minister of the Russian Empire.

1777 - Vermont became the 1st state that abolished slavery.

1796 - US State Department issued the first passport of a US citizen.

1819 - In St. Petersburg, the Isaac's Cathedral was laid on the project of Architect Auguste Monferran.

1820 - The Frankfurt Sejm adopted the Vienna Final Act, who completed the Constitution of the German Union and confirmed the sovereignty of German states.

1833 - Signed by UNKAR-SECELLSII Treaty on the world, friendship and defensive union between Russia and the Ottoman Empire.

1853 - The American Commander Matthew Perry landed in Tokyo Bay, on behalf of the United States demanded from Japan to establish trade relations with America until the end of the year.

1889 - The first issue of the newspaper "The Wall Street Journal" came out.

1894 - Peter Leonidovich Kapitsa, Soviet physicist, Academician, Nobel Prize (1978).

1895 - Igor Evgenievich Tamm, Soviet physicist theoretics, Nobel Prize Laureate (1958).

1916 - Decree on mobilization for forced work 400 thousand inhabitants of Turkestan and steppe regions. The mass uprising of the Kazakh tribes was brutally suppressed.

1920 - English colony East Africa is renamed Kenya.

1922 - For the first time in the world, there were experiments on the use of aviation to combat the pests of agriculture (Letchik N. P. Ilzin).

1944 - Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR introduced the honorary title of "Mother Heroine" and established the Order "Mother's Glory" and the medal "Maternity Medal";

The release of the first car on the "ZIS" (factory named after I. V. Stalin) was released in the city of Miass.

1945 - Restored after the Great Patriotic War Crimean Astrophysical Observatory of the USSR Academy of Sciences (KAO was founded on the basis of a private amateur observatory created in 1900).

1958 - made the first flight of the first post-war German helicopter - Triple Borghart "Hummingbird I", built by Heinrich Fockey.

1969 - Vietnamese War: The conclusion of American troops from South Vietnam, ended in three and a half years.

1972 - US President Nixon announced that the USSR will purchase American grain for 3 years in the amount of 750 million dollars.

1974 - CPSU Central Committee approved the construction project of the Baikal Amur highway (Bama).

1981 - The premiere of the Junon and Avos Music was held at Lenkom.

2011 - Atlantis Shuttle Start. The last flight of the Atlantis Shuttle, which completed the operation of the SPACE SHUTTLE system ships.

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. In Russia on March 26, 2008, the initiative to establish a new holiday was unanimously approved at a meeting of the Committee on Social Policy. "Day of family, love and loyalty".

One of the main initiators of the revival and popularization of this holiday is the spouse . She also owns the idea of \u200b\u200bchamomile as a symbol of the holiday.

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Other names

Peter and Fevronia, Fevronia-Russian, Fevronia-Russian.

In church calendar

On this day, Christians worship: the presets of the virgin; prince Petra, in atocacy , and Prince , in early Euphrosy, Murom; Reverend , confessor; Martyr Nicholas and Vasily Presteries; Sacred Martyr Vasily Presviter.

To the Murom Prince Peter and his wife Fevronia, spouses with prayers about family happiness are treated.

history of the holiday

Establishing a holiday

Prince Peter in chronicle sources is not mentioned. Some researchers identify Peter and Fevronia with a famous Murom Prince And his wife Euphrosinia. David Rules in C -go And he accepted himself with the name of Peter, his wife is almost not known about his spouse.

Saints, canonizes In 1547. Shortly after canonization was composed known " " According to the researchers, there are two populatory plots in the story: the magic fairy tale about the fiery serpent and a fairy tale of the wise Virgin. With the oral-poetic folk tradition, the image of the central heroine - Fevronia is connected. The genre of "Tale of Peter and Fevronia Muromsky" does not find compliant with the historical story, nor with the agiographic.

Day of Church Removing Saints is June 25 . The indication of the chronicles to the fact that the end of Holy Prince Davyd (Peter) and Princess Euphrosynia (Fevronia) and their burial fell on (April) , causes a matter of inconsistency between the death time and the date of church reversion. The Church Savroge Practice knows two cases of the commemoration of the saints - on the day of their death and the day of the transfer of their saints. In this regard, researchers suggest that the date of June 25 is connected with the transfer of the relics of the Holy Prince and Princess from the dilapidated Borisoglebsky Cathedral to the newly built already existed in (updated in ) In the Voivod Mountain, where the power was kept until Soviet times. The cathedral was demolished in the late 1930s.

Day of Family, Love and Fidelity

The initiative of the "All-Russian Day of Family, Love and Loyalty" belongs to residents of the city where they found their peace of the body of Peter and Fevronia. This idea was supported by deputies. , and B. The holiday received official support. To popularize the holiday in many cities of Russia were delivered .

A very famous holiday is Valentine's Day. Probably there is no such person on our planet who would not hear about him. But about the day of the family, loyalty, love, which is celebrated on July 8 (Slavic Day of Lovers), know a few people. Let's get acquainted with the history of this holiday and its traditions, because this is part of our culture.

July 8, Family Day: Holiday History

Since childhood, in fairy tales, we met a touching statement: "They lived and happily ever died in one day." It is borrowed from the famous story that children are studying still in primary schools. The work that became a monument to the ancient Russian literature was written in the XVI century. Oral Murom's legends were put in its foundation.

Peter and Fevronia, Petr and Fevronia, are the main characters in the story, which showed the main spiritual values \u200b\u200bto their lives. The story of their love passed in several centuries, was not lost among other works and was not forgotten. She laid the beginning of a bright holiday, which recently began to be celebrated in Russia on July 8 (day of family, love and loyalty).

Tale of Peter and Fevronia

The main characters who appear to the court readers in the story are identified with the Murom Prince and his wife. Peter sick leprosy. He could not get rid of her tormenting ailment. No one was able to help him. One day, the prince dreamed of a dream in which he saw that only Fevronia can heal him from terrible illness, a peasant, a daughter of a beekeeper.

Having met young and kind beautiful, the prince spoke about his ailment. Fevronia said that he would cure him, but in return he should marry her. The prince agreed on such a condition. He attracted not only the cure, but also piety, the wisdom of the girl, her beauty. Fevronia healed Peter, and he kept his promise.

The boyars, having learned about the event that happened, condemned the prince. They demanded that he abandon his wife, because she is a commoner. Peter did not accomplish such a step, because he was no matter what kind of origin is Fevronia. Together with his wife he left Mur and refused the principality. Similar attitude to Fevronia, love for her became an eternal example. To transfer new generations such examples of values \u200b\u200bwas created in the modern time holiday July 8 - Day of Peter and Fevronia, the holiday of the Day of Lovers.

Return to the city and continuation of the history of love

For a long time, Murom existed without Peter and Fevronia. The early troubles, taking place murders and atrocities scared Boyar. People worried about their future fate, asked Prince to return to the city along with their wife. Peter and Fevronia agreed to it.

When Peter again became a prince, his marriage was not collapsed. Who arrived Fevronia was able to conquer the respect of people living in this city. Her life-giving the power of love was so great that the thrill, stuck in the ground, turned into beautiful trees on her blessing. With his wisdom and kindness, she placed the townspeople. Fevronia never insulted those people who did not love her. She tried to teach their opponents a harmless lesson, to show them the mistakes committed in the life.

Death, not able to dissolve

July 8 - the day of family, love and loyalty - personifies eternal love. She was in the life of Peter and Fevronia. People who wish to once separated a married couple, could not do it. It turned out to be unlikely not only to them, but also death. When the spouses felt the approach of the end of her life, they asked God's death in one day and an hour and prepared for themselves a common coffin of stone with a thin partition.

In old age, Peter and Fevronia went to the male and female monasteries. When the prince felt that he was dying, he sent to his spouse to report that he was waiting for her, he wanted to leave this world with her. As a result, Peter and Fevronia died in one day.

People after the death of the spouses put the bodies in different coffins. The desire of the dead about the burial in one coffin could not fulfill, because they considered such an act incompatible with the monastic path, which Petr had done along with Fevronia. Bodies left in different abode, and the next day they discovered them together. People decided to take another attempt and again separated Peter and Fevronia, but they didn't get anything as a result. The bodies of the spouses were again in a single coffin. For the third time, the inhabitants of Murom had no longer separated them. Peter and Fevronia were buried together.

The appearance of the holiday in Russia

In 1547, Peter and Fevronia ranked for the facilities of God, i.e. they were canonized. Spouses began to be considered holy. The day of their memory accounted for June 25 (July 8 for a new style). In 2001, Valentin Kachevan, who is the mayor of Murom, proposed in July 8 the number to make the holiday. A huge number of people signatures were collected. All of them were sent to the State Duma.

The measures taken were inconsistent. The Day of Holy Princes Peter and Fevronia became the All-Russian Day of Family Happiness and Married Love. From this point on July 8 - a holiday. For the development of attributes and symbols of this particular day, a special organizing committee was created in the year. He was headed by Svetlana Medvedev, who is his wife Dmitry Medvedev, who was president at that time.

Symbolism of family day, loyalty and love

The Created Organizing Committee developed what was included in his plans. The chamomile has become a symbol of the holiday, which has a pair of multicolored among white petals. One petal is painted in blue, and the other in red. Chamomile was approved for no reason. This flower has been considered a symbol of love for a long time. Chamomile used for fortunes "loves - does not like." They were also given young men and men with their ladies of the heart and wives in respect, attention and love.

The organizing committee was still developed by the medal "For love and loyalty" to present on July 8, the families of our country, which can serve as an example for other people. On the one hand, there is a portrait of Saints - Peter and Fevronia. The opposite side is decorated with a holiday symbol - a beautiful chamomile.

Monuments of the Murom Pare

In connection with the advent of the day of family, love and loyalty in Russia, the monuments of Peter and Fevronia began to be built. The first of them appeared in 2008 in Murom, where he ever lived in love. The sculptural composition was performed on the project of Nikolai Shcherbakov under the name "Union of Love - Wise Marriage" and installed before the city registry office by July 8. The holiday on this day was illuminated in Murom precisely from this event. Next year, Monuments Peter and Fevronia appeared in Arkhangelsk, Sochi, Ulyanovsk, Yaroslavl, Abakan. Later they were erected in other settlements of our country.

To date, the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a monument by July 8 has embodied over 60 cities in Russia. All sculptures look different, because they were not created according to a single pattern. Each project has its own author who came up with a certain image and embodied it in a stone, but the meaning of all monuments is one - this is the personification of the family, eternal love and loyalty.

Traditions and holiday signs

On the day of St. Peter and Fevronia, it became a good tradition to come to the monument. It makes both in love with couples and lonely people who dream of finding their soul mate. It is also newly prompted to come to the sculpture of Peter and Fevronia and ask for holy assistance in preserving love and loyalty to each other.

The conclusion of marriages on July 8th was the tradition and admission. There is a belief that people who have entered into a union on this day will live together a long and happy life. Their marriage will be strong and prosperous. Years will not be able to destroy it.

Many are aware that July 8th is the day of family, love and loyalty, which with great scope is celebrated in Russia with a huge number of events. But not everyone knows that on that day there is also a church feast of Peter and Fevronia in 2018, as well as that there is a direct connection between them. About Saints Peter and Fevronia, as well as prohibitions on the day of Peter and Fevronia and about his relationship with the Russian holiday family, love and loyalty 2018, read further in our material.

Russia celebrates the day of family, love and loyalty - a nationwide holiday, which falls on July 8. This day has a beautiful and bright story, which we will tell further.

History of Peter and Fevronia

A pair of Fevronia and Peter is considered to have an Orthodox model of the Christian marriage. Prince Peter - the second son of Murom Prince Yuri, he joins the throne in 1203. A few years before this event, Peter fell ill with a terrible disease, called a leprosy. He dreamed of a strange very much that only the Bortnik's daughter is capable of cure from the illness, who mines wild honey. Her name is Fevronia, an ordinary peasant staying in a small village on Ryazan land.

The girl was very clever, beautiful, kind, knew how to talk with animals and knew the properties of all plants in the district. She could cure any ailment, so people often appealed to her. The prince swore that after healing would take Fevronia in wives, and she helped him cope with the disease. Only, Peter was not going to restrain his word, and then returned leprosy, he could only turn to the Virgin Fevronia for advice and help. She cured him for the second time, and he took her wives.

After inheriting the jurisdiction of the boyars, fell on a married couple, Fevronia because of simple origin and it insults noble. Peter was supplied to ultimatum: he must refuse his beloved, but he could not do this. Together they sailed across the oxyment on the boat and began to live among ordinary people and enjoy the fact that God sent.

In Murom, despondency began to occur, a bloody war was carried out for the throne. The boyars gathered the Council again and adopted a unanimous decision - to return the prince and his princess back. Fevronia fell in love with the townspeople. In the old years, the lovers made a tonsure in the monastery, taking the names of David and Efrosinia. They wanted to die in one day and be buried in one coffin and prayed to the Lord. It was prepared for spouses a tomb with a small slim stone partition.

They died on July 8 on July 8 for a new style (25 to the old) of 1228. The burial in one coffin for monks is not permanently, so their bodies put in different abode, but the next day they were together again.

Church practice reports two main dates: the death of Saints Peter and Fevronia and transfer them to the relics. Researchers believe that the relics of the Nativity Cathedral of the Virgin, who were demolished in 1930 were transferred on June 25. According to Julian calendar, the Day of West, the holiday of Peter and Fevronia is June 25, in the Grigorian - July 8. On this day, worship is held in the temple, family couples pray to Peter and Fevronia, asking happiness, harmony and mutual understanding. Married young people want only blessings. Everyone can perform a pilgrimage to the Holy Trinity Women's Monastery, which is located in the city of Murom. It is there that the power of the saints are stored.

How to celebrate Peter and Fevronia

In May 2001, the mayor of Muroma makes a decision to celebrate the city's Day on July 8, timed it, thus to the day of the memory of the Saints Great Martyrs. In the State Duma, more than 15,000 signatures were sent for the holiday to become All-Russian. In 2007, Vladimir Putin announced that 2008 would be the "family year". On March 26, 2008, the Council of Federation adopted a unanimous decision to establish a new holiday in honor of Saints Peter and Fevronia.

From the same moment on July 8, the "All-Russian Day of Married Love and Family Happiness" is celebrated. Chamomile has become a symbol of the holiday, the medal "For love and loyalty" was also established, which only exemplary families of state are awarded. On a memorial sign, Peter and Fevronia are depicted on the one hand, and on the other hand, a chamomile, two petals of which were painted in red and blue.

In every city, July 8, events are held to strengthen families and the upbringing of young people in the spirit of love and loyalty. Special ritual on family, love and loyalty - awarding couple living in marriage for more than 25 years. The medal "For love and loyalty" is obtained by those who have the example of real family happiness. Large parents, in whose families adopted children are brought up, the "Parental Glory" award is repaid in this holiday. There are concerts with the participation of domestic pop stars in the squares, thematic contests are held.

Family, love and loyalty was truly a truly popular and every year it marks more and more people who try to spend a day with relatives and close people, talk to souls or strolls to everyone together on the shopping centers of their city.

What can not be done on Peter and Fevronia 2018

So the feast of the family of love and loyalty and the history of Peter and Fevronia closely intertwined. Peter and Fevronia Murom became the incarnations of those family values, which in our time often lacks. But, as usual, for a holiday in the church calendar of July there are banners. Read about what you can not do on Peter and Fevronia 2018.

The main ban on Peter and Fevronia concerns the following: to be married on the day of the memory of Peter and Fevronia, it is impossible, but you can get it.

It is impossible to use fish dishes, as in the midst of Petrov post.

On this day, the people are not customary to work in the garden and garden, it is allowed only to make small household matters.

You can not sew and do the needlework.

The Day of Peter and Fevronia in Orthodox is considered a very bright and net holiday. On this day, it is impossible to resort to the rituals of black magic. It is better to pray to the temple, thoughts must be clean - at that moment the prayer is the most sincere. But unmarried girls who are in search of their destinies, it does not stop. They believe that on this day there are magical forces that patronize in love, which means you can guess for the narrowed and make love spells.

What the weather will be on Peter and Fevronia, the same will be the same in the next 40 days.

Happy and prosperous life awaits those who will pray for July 8 in front of the icon of Saints Peter and Fevronia.

This day is allowed to ask for the holy health for their children.

Weaving in the family will be someone who will hold a whole day with his spouse, engaged in a common matter.

Now you know why the day of family, love and loyalty 2018 is associated with Peter and Fevronia. Spend this day in a good mental atmosphere relatives, as the holiday requires.

Russian history

Literature

Day of family, love and loyalty: History of Peter and Fevronia

July 8 in Russia marks the day of family, love and loyalty. At the heart of the holiday - the day of the memory of the saints, considered by the patrons of marriage and family, Petra and Fevronia. What story is at the heart of the holiday, did the holy real historical prototypes have, and why the history of Love Peter and Fevronia is difficult to call beautiful? Answers in our article.

Since 2008, a new holiday appeared in Russia - the day of family, love and loyalty, which has become a pleasant alternative to the traditional, but European Valentine's Day. Date June 25 in old style, and on July 8, it was not necessary to be chosen by a new way - this is the day of memory of Peter and Fevronia, the Orthodox patrons of marriage.

"Tale of Peter and Fevronia Muromsky" - the main source telling us the story

Information about the heroes of the holiday - Petra and Fevronia - we can find in the "Tale of Peter and Fevronia Murom", which Ivan the famous author Yermolai-Erazm created in the era of Ivan.

For a long time in history, the question of the author of the story caused fierce disputes. Basically because of the actual acts described in the story and everyday life - the Soviet historians expressed concern that the author could not belong to the era of Grozny, but rather worked in the XV century. Nevertheless, authoritative sources insist that the story was created in the middle of the XVI century, and the author was a well-known publicist, the author of the "Trinity book" and "words about telling love and truth and by defeating the enmity and lies" - Yermolai Erazm.

What do we know about the author?

Yermolai Erazm, he also Ermolay is more simple, was a rather popular author of the XVI century. He knows about his life a little and mostly from his own works. The peak of his writer career, as if we were now told, fell on the middle of the century - it was then that the author sent to the Grozny king his treatise "by the borrowing king of the government and land." Erazm was personally familiar with the court book Ivan the Terrible - Kyre Sophronize. Dating and talent allowed Erazm a little later to get into the group of scribes collected by the famous Metropolitan Makari. Their main task was to create the lives of saints organized in the process of preparing new canonization at the local councils of 1447-49.

On behalf of Makaria, the most crowded Ivan the Terrible to the kingdom, Yermolam - Erazm and was created "Tale of Peter and Fevronia". Its original name, by the way, is much longer. With full text you can find on the website of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

What was the story wrote?

The history of the holiday of the Day of Family, love and loyalty gives us a great reason to turn to the history of our country. No literary work is created "just so", and the agiography is the branch of the Church Slavonic literature, otherwise - lives, the biographies of the saints, is the literature.

So, the era of Ivan the Terrible, and the entire XVI century is a swivel for culture and the church of the moment. On the one hand, the church is becoming closer to the culture of ordinary laity: in the books finally depict characters, illustrative appears, and not just a description. On the other hand, remember Ivan the Terrible and his time - the church and its ministers as never strongly demand the observance of canons, denying any heresy, including in the literature. Now we would say like this: "Saints are saints, do not tell about them, as if about people."

As mentioned above, the "story about Peter and Fevronia" was created to include in the "Great Mini Cheti" - a collection of chronicles and lives, but ... but it was not included. The reasons lie just in the peculiarities of the story: Erazm draws the prince and the future princess of Murom as ordinary people with their passions. True, Metropolitan allowed the work itself to be called in with the life and "publish" - so after a few years the text has spread widely throughout the country.

In the text of Yermolaya-Erast, there are no direct instructions on what Murom princes mean. Nevertheless, Great Historians Vladimir Osipovich Klyuchevsky and Evgeni Evsigneevich Golubinsky conducted the necessary surveys in order to suggest a lot of probability, a publicist is speaking about whom. Apparently, Prince Peter is the Murom Prince David Yuryevich, whose reign of which was at the beginning of the XIII century.

For those who love historical detectives and search for errors, we have information. Day of family, love and loyalty is celebrated on July 8 (June 25). In the "book of the verbal description of Russian saints", which is one hundred years older than the story itself, it is June 25, it is indicated as the date of death of the saints. But if we look into the chronicle, where the information about David Muromsky is contained, the date will differ. First, for a year, secondly, the month of death is prince called April.

There is a second version of the prototype of Peter (about the peasant-Fevronia of information is not at all). According to another historian for a last century with an interesting surname of Quishin-Samarin, Holy Prince Peter is the Murom Prince Peter, a ancestor in the future of very famous boyars of sheep and Volodymar. Although who does not want to yourself in the ancestors of the saint? However, sources offer us facts to confirm this theory: in two Murom synodics - texts for commemoration - there are information about the life of such a prince and its two brothers. True, the entry itself is made later to the "Tale of Peter and Fevronia", and maybe there is already a copy of it.

The third option is contained in the legend of Vasily Ryazan and Muromsky, where it is about Prince and his spouse who later lived by David Yurevich, but much before Peter from Murom Sanbani. By summing up under all three sources, it can be said that the historical prototypes of Peter and Fevronia, if existed, they lived at the end of the XIII century and, alas, absolutely we are not known.

Day of family, love and loyalty - the unfavorable start of relations Peter and Fevronia

In fact, if you carefully read the story, thinking about the motives of her heroes, it becomes not entirely clear why the history of relations between these characters becomes an ideal idea of \u200b\u200bmarriage. Let's turn to the text again.

So, Murom's brave prince Peter kills the Snake's sword, who under the guise of Prince Paul - Brother Peter - comes to his wife. The terrible devil, who took the appearance of Paul, dies, but his blood hits Peter. As a result, the prince is seriously ill - covered with stakes. Further, everything goes on the fabulous canon, which Yermolai Erasm could not but use. In search of the healer, all forces were thrown, but they do not bring any results. As a result, the prince manages to find in the wilderness of Fevronia - the daughter of the collector of honey, a little, but a wise girl. From this place the relationship of heroes begins.

"Life of Saints Peter and Fevronia of Muroms in the painting of Alexander Esthem"

Fevronia does not want to cure the prince "just so," even knowing that Peter killed the Snake Devil himself. According to the logic of fairy tales known to us since childhood, the hero must pass the test to get a wonderful wife, but he has already passed it! Alas, Fevronia declares the following requirements with a princely servant: "Here is my word to him: if I do not become a spouse, he does not fit me and treat it." Prince Peter does not want to take himself to his wife "from the forest", and he deceives her: takes treatment, but does not fulfill his promise to marry Fevronia. It would seem sad, but quite real end. Only here Fevronia is the future saint-turns to cunning: she deceives Peter. Transferring the drug to the servant of Peter, she says the following: "Let it be swept by the prince of your bath, let him aim it all the body, where there is a scree and ulcers. And let alone abruptly leave. And it will be healthy! " The prince believes, leaves, in response sends the gifts, but from that ill-fated stamp on the body, a terrible disease is again distributed ...

Only after that, Peter returns to his healer, and she promises that the prince will be healed as soon as she takes her wife. What happens. Further, the author tells us about the relationship of Prince and Fevronia already in marriage. On the tests that she has to go beyond the envy of noble wives and wicked boyars. As a result, everything ends well, and the life of pious and faithful Peter and Fevronia, albeit complete doubts and difficulties, can indeed become forgetting future generations.

Nevertheless, the beginning of history does not look like an exemplary acquaintance between the two lovers, no two saints. The fact is that Ermolai Erazm, although it does not doubt the holiness of a simple girl - in his narration, she creates many wonders of God's mercy, but uses in his lead elements of a typical European tale about the crested peasant. Perhaps despite bringing the lives to the worldly - simple - understanding. What makes a story about Peter and Fevronia a unique work, and we call us think about marriage and love.