The Origin of venerable Savvati of Tver

Abstract

This article will present all the currently available information and versions about the origin of St. Savvati of Tver. Perhaps this is the first attempt to interpret the information about his life that has come down to our days in the most objective way. Some modern researchers are trying to link the origin of St. Savvati of Tver and his formation as a monk with the hesychastic tradition of Palestinian monasticism. To achieve this goal, they give their arguments. In this article, some of them will be presented and commented on. The pre-revolutionary Tver local historians were also interested in the personality of the monk and her origin. Their versions will also be presented and reviewed here. The purpose of the presented work is to restore, on the basis of a comparison of different points of view, an objective historical view of the origin of St. Savvati of Tver. In my opinion, it is necessary to present a more complete picture of the personality of the monk, its origin, since, due to the small number of sources, it is insufficiently studied, therefore, different versions and theories are being created on the question of its origin. Undoubtedly, this work will be another contribution to the local history of the Tver land, to the study of the history of the temporal context of the history of the Russian Church in which the Monk Savvati of Tver lived.