Srbija - nacionalna revija - broj 54 - engleski - niska rezolucija

L I G H T H O U S E S
following eight years, until his maturity, the
battles for the regent position with Shuyski
and Belski boyar dynasties, were, according
to his own confession, humiliating years of
his life. Especially in 1542, when, afraid for
his life, he watched the robbing of the state
treasury, plundering of golden dishes from
the palace, triumph of the boyars, when
Ivan Shuyski treaded on his father’s bed
with muddy boots. His life was constantly
endangered, but he was most often saved by
Metropolitan Makarije, since he could not
share the responsibility for his people and
state with any of the boyars. Those were the
years of his education. If his first education
with his mother was initiated by love and
necessity, being a grand prince, during the
years of humiliation by the boyars, it was
his salvation.
SAVED FOR GREAT DEEDS
His education was looked after by the
one who educated his mother, infusing
her with pride, dignity and determination,
which she now transferred to him –
Princess Ana Glinskaya Jakšić, his grandmother.
She also introduced him to the
second branch of his origins, to the Serbian
spiritual and state heritage, with the
spiritual and state philosophy of St. Sava,
ascension of the holy Nemanjić family
from Stefan Nemanja, unifier of Serbian
lands, to Emperor Dušan the Mighty, his
coronation in glory, his convocations and
proclaiming of the Code, as well as the fall
of the Serbian Empire and tragic fate of
Prince Lazar. The book of his education
was Teodosije’s Hagiography of St. Sava,
brought from Chilandar by monk Isaija,
as a gift to his father. In his older age, he
testified about it with jubilance: “St. Sava
left his father, mother, brothers, relatives
and friends and, together with the entire
empire and aristocracy, carried the cross
of Christ and achieved such monastic
feats! His father Nemanja, that is, Simeon,
and his mother left their empire and
replaced the purple with monastic robe,
thereby receiving earthly consolation
and joy!”
Princess Ana Glinskaya, as the family regent,
investing her entire family reputation,
participated in the political life of Moscow
and managing the entire Principality with
her sons Michael and Yuri, ostensibly paying
attention to all sides of the so-called
“boyar empire”. At the time of constant battles
between the Shuyski and Belski families
for power and who will be the tutor to
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