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The paper is dedicated to the scientific publication and commentary on the construction and painting of the Epiphany Cathedral in Kostroma Epiphany Convent of Anastasia (CIR4010) in 1559-1562/63. The Cathedral was built with the blessing
of St. Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow, on the initiative and at the expense of Hegumen Isaiya (worldly Shaposhnikov) and the monastic brothers, as well as on the donations made by Prince Vladimir of Staritsa and others. The paper states that the Cathedral was consecrated by Archbishop Nikandr of Rostov on June 8, 1559, on the day of the namesake of Feodor, son of Ivan the Terrible, and the consecration ceremony was of a Church-state character. The inscription contains unique information, which has not been preserved in other sources, about the attachment of particles of the relics of St. Theodore the Black, Prince of Yaroslavl and his offsprings David and Konstantin in the antimins of the consecrated Church, as well as the fresco painting of the Cathedral, produced in 1562/61. Thus, the published inscription is a unique monument of memorial epigraphy, reporting both information on the architectural and art history of Kostroma in the late 1550s to the early 1560s, and containing important material about reverence of St. Theodore, Prince of Yaroslavl, and his offsprings in Kostroma land.

The paper, written in the framework of the CIR project (Corpus of Russian inscriptions / Corpus Inscriptionum Rossicorum), summarises the preliminary results of the study of the complex of white stone tombstones from the unique historical, cultural and architectural monument of the late 17th century – the ancestral tomb of the Gotovtsevs, Galich noble family in the village of Likurga of Buy district of Kostroma Region. It has preserved 11 white stone tombstones with epitaphs, the earliest of which dates the late 16th to the early 17th century, while the latest, 1725. The inscriptions on the tombstones contain important material on the genealogy of Galich branch of the noble family of the Gotovtsevs, up to its suppression in the fi rst quarter of the 18th century. The Annex to the paper publishes the oldest tombstone with the epitaph to Davyd Urakov, son of Gotovets.