The character of the Russians and a detailed history of Moscow. Illustrated with numerous engravings. With a dissertation on the Russian language; and an appendix, containing tables, political, statistical, and historical; an account of Imperial Agricultural Society of Moscow; a catalogue of plants found in and near Moscow; an essay on the origin and progress of architecture in Russia, &c. &c / By Robert Lyall.

  • Robert Lyall
Date:
1823
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Credit: The character of the Russians and a detailed history of Moscow. Illustrated with numerous engravings. With a dissertation on the Russian language; and an appendix, containing tables, political, statistical, and historical; an account of Imperial Agricultural Society of Moscow; a catalogue of plants found in and near Moscow; an essay on the origin and progress of architecture in Russia, &c. &c / By Robert Lyall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The pictures over the title of the prayer represent Jesus Christ in the centre, the Virgin Mary on the right, and John the Baptist on the left. Here follows the translation: “ Absolution Prayer Pronounced by the Priest over a Dead Body.” “ May our Lord Jesus Christ, by his divine grace, and gift, and power, given to his holy disciples and apostles, to bind and loose the sins of men, [when he said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: and whose sins ye forgive, they are forgiven to them ; and whose sins ye retain, they are retained to them; and whatsoever ye shall bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven] *; and from them lineally de- scended also on us—may He through me forgive to this my spiritual child [insert the name here\ whatsoever he, as man, hath sinned against God by thought, or word, or deed ; and by all his senses, willingly or unwillingly, knowingly or unknowingly : and if he have been under the curse or interdiction of bishop or priest, or have brought the curse of his father, or of his mother upon himself, or have fallen under his .own imprecation, or broken his oath, or by any other sins, as a man hath bound himself j but concerning all of which, hath with a broken heart repented; — from all these trans- gressions and sins, may he absolve him, (her,) and on account of the weakness of nature may he commit them all to oblivion ; and for the sake of His love to mankind, and through the prayers of our most holy and most blessed (Vladitchitsa ]•,) Sovereign Lady, the Mother of God, and Ever-Virgin Mary, and of the holy, glorious, and uni- versally celebrated apostles, and of all saints, may they all be for- given him (her). Amen.” “ Price twenty copeeks.” It is needless to remark, that the form of this prayer is no more * Matthew, ch. xviii. v. 18.; vide also c. xvi. v. 19. f Vladitchitsa is the original word, and is rendered by the French, “ La Souveraine in German, by die Monarchinn; in‘English, by Queen, or Sovereign; and is equivalent to Lady, and Sovereign Lady of the Roman Catholic church.