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Simeon Polotsky

Died in 1680

Samuil Petrovsky-Sitnianovich was born in Polotsk in 1629. A pupil at the Orthodox college in Kiev, where he studied under Lazar Baranovich, he took monastic vows in his native town in 1656 under the name Simeon and taught there; in the same year, he offered verses of welcome to Tsar Alexis, who was passing through. Settled in Moscow in 1664, he opened a school there for young clerics, took part in the council that deposed Patriarch Nikon, and became court poet and tutor to the tsar's children, including the future Feodor III. He died in Moscow in 1680.

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