Aleksei Afanasevich Dmitrievsky (AAD)

Secretary of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, Rector and Vice Rector of Astrakhan’s first university, Correspondent Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

He was the most important representative of Russian critical study of the liturgy. After training and teaching in the Kazan' Spiritual Academy, he was professor of liturgics and Christian archaeology at the Spiritual Academy of Kiev (1884–1907). His life's work was devoted to the sifting and editing of Greek and Slavic manuscripts of liturgical texts, leading to the three-volume “Description of the Liturgical Manuscripts Preserved in the Libraries of the Orthodox East”

May 2017

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http://asu.edu.ru/en/news/5078-konferenciia-pamiati-a-a-dmitrievskogo-v-agu.html; http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/religion-past-and-present/dmitrievsky-aleksei-afanasevich-SIM_03712?s.num=133&s.start=120

Felmy, Karl Christian, “Dmitrievsky, Aleksei Afanasevich”, in: Religion Past and Present. Consulted online on 27 June 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1877-5888_rpp_SIM_03712
First published online: 2011
First print edition: ISBN: 9789004146662, 2006-2013

Authors : Lora A. Gerd (Historian, Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg) http://iib-ac.academia.edu/LoraGerd
Yann Potin (Historian, University of Paris XIII; Archivist, French National Archives) https://ceral.univ-paris13.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Fiche-Potin-2015.pdf