Lazar the Hilandarian
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Lazar the Hilandarian or the Serb
was a Serbian Orthodox monk in the Hilandar monastery (hence his epithet) of Mount Athos
, and an architect, the first known Serbian and Russian watchmaker.
, in the Serbian Empire
. He designed and built the clock and clock tower itself that stood in the Grand Prince’s palace behind the Annunciation Church in 1404. This was made on the request of Vasily I of Moscow. The clock functioned for 217 years.
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
was a Serbian Orthodox monk in the Hilandar monastery (hence his epithet) of Mount Athos
Mount Athos
Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site, it is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic. Spiritually, Mount Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the...
, and an architect, the first known Serbian and Russian watchmaker.
Life
Lazar was born in PrizrenPrizren
Prizren is a historical city located in southern Kosovo. It is the administrative center of the eponymous municipality and district.The city has a population of around 131,247 , mostly Albanians...
, in the Serbian Empire
Serbian Empire
The Serbian Empire was a short-lived medieval empire in the Balkans that emerged from the Serbian Kingdom. Stephen Uroš IV Dušan was crowned Emperor of Serbs and Greeks on 16 April, 1346, a title signifying a successorship to the Eastern Roman Empire...
. He designed and built the clock and clock tower itself that stood in the Grand Prince’s palace behind the Annunciation Church in 1404. This was made on the request of Vasily I of Moscow. The clock functioned for 217 years.
See also
- Teodosije the HilandarianTeodosije the HilandarianTeodosije the Hilandarian was a Serbian Orthodox clergyman and one of the most important Serbian writers in the Middle Ages, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts named him one of the 100 most prominent Serbs....
(1246-1328), writer of the biography of Saint SavaSaint SavaSaint Sava was a Serbian Prince and Orthodox monk, the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church, the founder of Serbian law and literature, and a diplomat. Sava was born Rastko Nemanjić , the youngest son of Serbian Grand Župan Stefan Nemanja , and ruled the appanage of Hum briefly in... - Dorotheus of Hilandar (fl. 1356-1366), protos of Mount AthosMount AthosMount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site, it is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic. Spiritually, Mount Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the...
- Elder GrigorijeElder GrigorijeElder Grigorije was a Serbian nobleman, Orthodox cleric and writer.-Life:Grigorije hailed from the Prizren region. He was a nobleman under the Serbian Empire but later took monastic vows and received the monastic title of Elder . With monk Jakov he led the building of the endowment of Emperor...
(fl. 1310-1355), builder of Saint Archangels MonasterySaint Archangels MonasteryThe Saint Archangels Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Prizren, in southern Kosovo. It was founded by the Serbian emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia, and built between 1343 and 1352, on the site of the earlier church, part of the Višegrad fortress complex... - Antonije BagašAntonije BagašAnthony Bagaš was a Serbian nobleman from Kastoria that retreated to Mount Athos in between 1356-1366, where he later bought and restored the ruined Athonite monastery of Saint Paul with the help of Nikola-Gerasim Radonja in the 1380s, becoming its abbott - taking the monastic name Arsenios...
(fl. 1356-1366), bought and restorated the Agiou Pavlou monasteryAgiou Pavlou monasteryAgiou Pavlou monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the monastic state of Mount Athos, located on the easternmost peninsula of Chalkidiki, Greece.... - Pachomius the SerbPachomius the SerbPachomius the Serb was a 15th-century Serbian-Russian hagiographer in the employ of the Russian Orthodox Church, most notably the archbishops of Novgorod, the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra, and the grand princely and metropolitan courts in Moscow.He is believed to have written eleven saint's lives ,...
(fl. 1440s-1484), hagiographer of the Russian Church
Sources
- Hilandarski monah Lazar, prvi srpski časovničar
- Ахимандрит Мојсије, 600-ТО ГОДИШЊИЦА ЧАСОВНИКА ЛАЗАРА ХИЛАНДАРЦА У МОСКВИ, Београд, 3. 12. 2004
- Srpska Dijaspora, Sat iz Prizrena za velikog kneza
- Dr Dragan Trifunović, Miloslav Rajković, Matematika u srpskom narodu
- Dr. Oleg Germanovich Uliyanov, “The Deesis painted by Andrey Rublev” from the Annunciation Church of the Moscow Kremlin (Picture)