Verkhovsky Zahar Bogdanovich

(24.III.1767, Selco Bulovitsy Smolensky County - 24.H.1833, buried in Holy Trinity Monastery Odigitrievskom Moscow Province)
. Schemamonk Zosima.Osnovatel Turin Nunnery (1822) and the monastery in the Moscow diocese, which later became Trinity Monastery Odigitrievskim
. Literary critics believe schemamonk Zosima Verkhovsky one of the prototypes of the elder Zosima in Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov ". Niece of the elder Zosima Barbara Ilinichna Verkhovskaya (4.HII.1801, . s Egoryev Dorogobuzhskaya district of Smolensk province - 24.HI.1868, . buried in Holy Trinity Monastery Odigitrievskom) - Abbess Vera, . was the first abbess, . a great-niece of the elder Mariya Verkhovskaya (1835 - 1901, . Trinity Monastery Odigitrievsky) - Abbess Magdalene, . was the third abbess of Holy Trinity Monastery Odigitrievskogo.,

. Lit.: Elder Zosima Verkhovsky
. - M., reprint, 1994; Trinity Odigitrievskaya Zosimova deserts .- M., 1903; Gromyko MM; Siberian acquaintances and friends F.M. Dostoevsky .- Novosibirsk, 1985.