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unusual facts about Hilarion


Hilarion

Hermann Hesse adapted a biography of St. Hilarion as one of the three Lives of Joseph Knecht, making up his Nobel Prize winning novel The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi).


Alexandra Gallitzin

Vera Vasilchikova (1780 - 1814), maid of honour and dame of the Order of Saint Catherine who was the first wife of later-Prince Hilarion Vasilyevich Vasilchikov.

Anthony of Kiev

On his return, Anthony found a small 4-yard cave which Hilarion had dug before his elevation as the first native Metropolitan of Kiev.

Eduard Ladislas Kaunitz, baron von Holmberg

At the beginning of 1814 the government commanded him to fight and capture José Gervasio Artigas, but he fell wounded at the battle of Espinillo fighting Fernando Torgués, whom pardoned his life and released him along with his adjutant, lieutenant Hilarión de la Quintana.

Hereditary Commander

Count Dmitri Cheremeteff; Prince Serge Belosselsky-Belozersky; Count Hilarion Worontzoff-Dachkoff ; Paul Demidoff; Prince Wladimir Galitzine (Aspirant); Count Wladimir Borch (HC of the RC Grand Priory); Dmitri Boutourline; Prince Serge Dolgorouki; Denis Davydoff; Léon Narichkine; Count Alexandre Mordvinoff, (Aspirant); Prince Nikita Troubetzkoi; Count André Lanskoi (Aspirant); Dmitri Jerebzoff Nicolas Tchirikoff; Count Dmitri Olzoufieff.

Hilarion of Kiev

He acquired the reputation of well-educated scholar and upon the death of Metropolitan Theopemptus in 1049, Hilarion was proclaimed the metropolitan of Kiev by Yaroslav the Wise, the Grand prince of Kiev, who thus challenged the old Byzantine tradition of placing Greeks on the episcopal sees.

Ioasaph of Belgorod

After attending the Kiev Theological Academy, in 1725 the young Gorlenko was tonsured a monk of the Mezhyhirya Monastery, under the name of Hilarion.

Luka Zhidiata

Luka opposed the Kyivan Grand Princes' appointments of Hilarion and Efrem as metropolitans of Kyiv, not simply to oppose Kyiv, but because it was the prerogative of the Patriarch of Constantinople to name the Kyivan metropolitan.

Port of Rijeka

The railway facilities were designed by Jozsef Bainville, while the port itself was designed by Hilarion Pascal, who had previously designed the Port of Marseille, and Antal Hajnal.

Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg

Tatiana von Metternich-Winneburg was born in Saint Petersburg, the second daughter of Prince Hilarion Sergueïevitch Vassiltchikov (1881–1969), a member of the Russian Imperial Parliament Fourth Duma, and his wife, the former Princess Lidiya Leonidovna Vyazemskaya (1886–1946).

Vera Vasilchikova

Vera Vasilchikova (née Protasova, 1780 – October 2, 1814), was a maid of honor, the first wife of General Hilarion Vasilyevich Vasilchikova and dame of the Order of Saint Catherine (1814).


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