Gavriil Fedorovich Buzhinskii

He was educated at the Kiev-Mohyla Academy. In 1706 he was called by Stefan Yavorsky to Moscow, where he became a teacher at the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy. In 1707 he was tonsured as a monk, and in 1709 was appointed prefect of the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy. He was known as a preacher to Peter I, who called him to St. Petersburg to the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in 1714, and in 1718 appointed him chief monk (ober-ieromonakh) of the fleet. He translated from Latin "Friendly Conversations" (“Razgovory druzheskie”) (1716) by Erasmus of Rotterdam, "Introduction to European History" (“Vvedenie v istoriiu evropeiskuiu”) by Samuel von Pufendorf (1718; 2nd ed. 1724) and "Theatron or the Historical Survey" (“Featron, ili pozor istoricheskii”) by Wilhelm Stratemann (1724).