musicologist, PhD in Art history, Leading Researcher at the Department of Manuscripts of Russian National Library of St. Petersburg. Ramazanova is the author of several monographs: The Moscow Kingdom and Church-Chanting Art (2004), The Saint Russian Romans (2005), and more than 70 published research works. Her main fields of research interests are: the history of Russian music, Ancient Russian Chant Manuscripts ans archive materials on Russian music figures.

“MARTYR AND PASTOR”:
STICHERA TRANSCRIBED IN THE RUSSIAN NOTATED MANUSCRIPTS OF THE MIDDLE OF THE XVII CENTURY,
DEDICATED TO SAINT BISHOP GREGORY, THE ILLUMINATOR OF GREAT ARMENIA

The Bishop of Great Armenia, Holy Martyr Gregory is one of the worshiped saints, whose memory is celebrated by all Christian confessions. In Russia, the name, image and descriptions of the feat of the Armenian Martyr are depicted in numerous monuments of Russian religious art — iconography, architecture, books and songs. In the beginning, the center of these monuments (from the XI century) was considered the Novgorod land, then, in the middle of the XVI century the center of the veneration of Gregory the Illuminator transferred to Moscow. Here the main monuments glorifying the Armenian miracle worker were created. One of the nine altars of the Moscow Cathedral of the Intercession on the Moat was consecrated in the name of Gregory, the Illuminator. St. Gregory is mentioned in the Illustrated Chronicle arc of the Tsar Ivan IV, and the number of hуmns in the Church Service dedicated to him has grown significantly. A. N. Kruchinina was the first researcher of the notated hуmns to St. Gregory found in Russian manuscripts. In the manuscripts from the XVI to the mid-XVII centuries, she revealed 10 lists of Divine Service dedicated to him. She found the largest number of hymns of the Service in two of them. Meanwhile, there is another manuscript of Church music (SLR, Razumovsky. 63), which dates back to the mid-XVII century and contains the largest number of Church services and numerous hymns. Later on, some of these texts, among which were services as well, have disappeared from the notated manuscripts. The service dedicated to the first Armenian Bishop was among the latter.
Six stichera belonging to the sixth mode (glas) and transcribed in the manuscript are discussed in this paper. The Priest Martyr Gregory is indeed the central figure in these stichera. His name translates from Greek as “awake” and in Latin means “a shepherd, herding the flock”. Both translations reflect the connection of the first Armenian Bishop to the history of Christianity in Armenia and his role as a priest. The name of the Saint and his pastoral asceticism is presented in the hymns using different musical and poetic means of expression. This paper also focuses on the expressive means used for presenting such definitions as “Martyr” (“torments”), “pastor”, “light”, “glory”, as well as a number of techniques that organize the inner structure of separate sticherons and the entire complex complex of the stichera.