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Codex Sinaiticus and Constantine Simonides - Antonin Kaupstin's 1863 mission to investigate Simonides story
To summarize, it looks like Luciano Canfora was working with Volkonsky correspondence from numsrous people (this is clear on the Index page 470), and one of them was from Alexander Stourtzas discussing Simonides. Thus the questions about authenticity, perhaps the letter was created by...
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Russian Investigation p. 43-44 with typo Constantine fixed.
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The letter from St Panteleimon appearing in the Orthodox Review, April 1863
Despite this, however, at the request of Benedict, the elder Prokopios (and not patriarchs Anthimus and Constantius, with whom Simonides did not have, and could not have had, any relations at that time) interceded for Simonides before Countess Edling and A. Sturdza; for 'daskal' Prokopios was known to the Countess.156.
156 Russian transliteration of Greek δάσκαλος, a schoolmaster.
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