"meeting the princess" - the painting illustrates the meeting of sophia paleologue, the bride of the grand duke of moscow ivan the great, by the pskov mayors and boyars. Painting by fyodor bronnikov "the matter was settled: in june 1472, sophia left rome accompanied by cardinal anthony and many greeks, and on october 1, nikolai lyakh drove to pskov as a messenger from the sea, from revel, and announced at the veche: "the princess has crossed the sea, she is traveling to moscow, the daughter of thomas, prince of morea, the niece of constantine, the tsar of constantinople, the grandson of john paleologue, the son-in-law of grand duke vasily dmitrievich, her name is sophia, she will be your sovereign, and the wife of grand duke ivan vasilyevich, and you should meet her and receive her honestly. " having announced this to the pskovites, the messenger rode that same day to novgorod the great, and from there to moscow. The pskovites immediately began to feed themselves with honey and gather food; the mayors and boyars from the ends set out to meet the princess in izborsk, and had been living there for a whole week when a messenger arrived from dorpat with an order to go and meet her on the german coast; the mayors and boyars rode in six carriages and with many boats and met sophia at the mouth of the embach, got out of the ships and, having filled their cups and gilded horns with wine and honey, beat their foreheads to her; she accepted this from them in honor and great love and declared that she wanted to go with them immediately further, in order to leave the germans as soon as possible; the mayor received her, all her friends and the treasury in his carriages, and they sailed to the russian coast. Before pskov she also had a great honor: priests with crosses and mayors came out to meet her; having received a blessing from the priests, a petition from the mayors and all of pskov, sophia went to trinity cathedral with her friends. ". Date: 1883.
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