On the way to Fedor Karpov’s archive: Traces in the Chudov monastery?

Only a small portion of the work written by Fedor Karpov, diplomat and publicist who worked under Grand Prince Vasili III, has been preserved. A detailed assessment his literary activity is additionally complicated fact that Karpov’s writings were mainly extracted from so-called formulaire collection. There, researcher to rely primarily on context in order get an idea aesthetic, ideological political position writer, whose works included into As far as Karpov concerned, he was related with scribes Joseph-Volokolamsk monastery. The author article tries demonstrate significance Chudov monastery writer diplomat, especially fate works. It shown replicas book writing Kremlin can be traced throughout 16th century: up until 1525 regular correspondence Maxim Greek lived Chudov, Panegyric III reflected Book Degrees, which compiled many times edited same