Назначение Михаила Козачинского Слуцким архимандритом. 1748–1749 гг

The paper tells about an appointment of Mikhail Kozačinski, famous writer and pedagogue of 18th century, as an archimandrite of the Slutsk Holy Trinity monastery. The problem was closely connected with the protection of the Russian embassy in Warsaw over the Orthodox people of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that irritated Polish and Lithuanian magnates who protested against discussing it on the forthcoming Diet. At the same time the Russian government didn’t want to worsen relations with the one of the powerful Lithuanian magnates, the owner of the Slutsk principality and the patron of the Slutsk Holy Trinity monastery, Hieronim Florian Radziwiłł. He also was ready to protect his Orthodox subjects in return for providing some particular services from the Russian emperor court. Appointing new archimandrite, the metropolitan of Kiev Timophej Shcherbatskij didn’t take into account the position of the Slutsk Orthodox fraternity that provoke another more serious conflict next years.