HalynaMyroslava"Traces of Alphabets"/"Сліди від азбук"

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Thanks to Petro Ratensky or Ratnensky,Петро Ратенський (Ратненський),the famous icon painter and Metropolitan of Kyiv and all Rus. In 1260 Petro (Petr, Peter) was born in the village Ratne, Volhyn or Volhynia (Galicia-Volhynia,West Ukraine) in the family of pious Fedir and Evpraksia. But Historian V.R. Vavryk suggests that Peter was born in the village Verhrati Rava-Ruska District (Lviv region) during the reign of Danylo Halytsky and Profesor Holubynsky suggests that Metropolitan Peter could be born in wealthy parents in Lviv or Belhz. In 1272 Peter entered the monastery near Belz (Lviv Region). Later, with the blessing of his abbot, he departed in the cozy woods and began to create his monastery - the church of St. Saviour. So St. Peter became abbot of Ratensky (Novodvorsky) monastery (near the modern village Dvirtsi, the river Rata). Peter painted icons and gave them as a gift. After the death of Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus Maxim in 1305 Mikhail Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Tver, wanted to put his candidate on the metropolitan department who dared lie to gain a rank . That was a violation of the old traditions, because since the adoption of Christianity in Kyivan Rus there was only one Ruthenian Metropolis in Kyiv. Then Galician prince took steps to establish a single metropolis in Galicia or Halychyna. He sent Abbot Peter to Athanasius Patriarch of Constantinople. Patriarch put him on Metropolitan, but not in Galician,in order to avoid provocation and strife, but the Primate of the Ruthenian Church, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus. 1308-1309 - Kyiv Metropolitan Because Kyiv suffered after Tatar attacks metropolitans didn't have right conditions for managing of metropolitanate, Saint Peter moved to Vladimir-on-Klyazma, and with 1325 Peter,in order to avoid problems that deliberately created Prince of Tver Mikhail, at the request of Ivan Danilovich Kalyta, the department moved to a small metropolitan town (then) Moscow. 1309-1326 - Moscow Metropolitan. In 1326 his death found him in the way during the apostolic missionary work. S He was buried as he asked in Moscow's Cathedral .In 1339 Ruthenian Orthodox Church enlisted him to his saints. In the pre-Mongol Rus' greatest spiritual and artistic centers were Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and St. Sofia Cathedral. After the fall of Kyiv, government, church and artistic and religious life has moved in the Galicia-Volhynia state, continuing the tradition of Kyiv. In the XIII - XIV century due to adverse socio-political and economic circumstances of church art was not able to develop widely in the territory. Therefore, from the middle of the XIII century Ukrainian producers worked far beyond their lands. At the end of the XIII - XIV century most Galician masters travelled to work in northern lands: Novgorod, Moscow. That's why in Novgorod and Ukraine icons of XIV - XV centuries have a lot of common characteristics. Having left for the territory of modern Russia, Peter Ratensky in the first half of XIV century decorated and built Moscow Art in the spirit of Galician church temples. Metropolitan Peter was the only one well known today writer and painter, iconographer of Galician-Volhyn land in the Prince era (Kyiv Rus). ----------------------------- Halyna Myroslava "Traces of The Alphabets" Галина Мирослава "Сліди від азбук". Будити ранок завжди буде ніч Свого допоминатись ляжуть тіні Збиватимуть на лона протиріч І критимуться у сльозах та піні Триматиме собою пектораль Сліди від азбук на полях абеток І рватимуться малювати даль Маленькі пальчики відкритих світлом креток ----------