Feofan Blessing
Feofan or Theophan is a male given name. It may refer to: *Theofan (Bystrov) (1875–1940), Russian archbishop *Feofan Davitaia (1911–1979), Georgian geographer *Theophanes the Greek (c. 1340 – c. 1410), Byzantine Greek artist *Theophan Prokopovich Feofan/Theophan Prokopovich (18 June 168119 September 1736) was a Russian Imperial Orthodox theologian, writer, poet, mathematician, and philosopher of Ukrainian origin. Rector of the Academia Mohileana in Kiev (now Kyiv, Ukraine), and Archbisho ...

Theofan (Bystrov)
Theofan of Poltava (born Vassili Dimitrievich Bystrov, russian: link=no, Василий Дмитриевич Быстров; 12 January 1875 - 6 February 1940) was a Russian archbishop and theologian in the Eastern Orthodox Church. He was widely known as the "only Russian ascetic bishop". Theofan was the occasional confessor of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra. Early years Basil was born in Luzhsky Uyezd (now Shimsky District) as the son of a priest and baptized on the day of St. Basil the Great. In 1896 he finished his studies at St Petersburg Theological Academy, which he had entered as one of the youngest students. The year after he became assistant-professor in history of the Old Testament. In 1898 he became a monk under the name of Theophanes the Confessor; in 1901 archimandrite. In the summer of 1902, a student at the Ecclesiastical Academy named Leonid Feodorov approached Archimandrite Theofan seeking permission to interrupt his studies for the priesth ...
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Feofan Davitaia
Feofan Farneevich Davitaia ( ka, თეოფანე ფარნას ძე დავითაია; 2 (15) September 1911, in village Eki, now Senaki Municipality, Georgia – 29 July 1979, in Tbilisi, Georgia) was a Georgian geographer, climatologist and agrometeorologist. doctor of agricultural sciences (1951), academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR (1960), Honored Scientist of the Georgian SSR (1966). Became a member of the CPSU in 1939. Davitaia was professor of the universities of Leningrad (1950–1951) and Moscow (1955–1961). In Moscow, for several years he also delivered lectures at the Courses for the improvement of professional skill at the Central Board of Hydrometeorological Service, USSR Council of Ministers. From 1963 Davitaia continued educational work at Tbilisi State University, directing a large number of postgraduates who successfully developed his ideas in their research. For 15 years Davitaia was a member of the Scientific and Tec ...
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Theophanes The Greek
Theophanes the Greek (sometimes "Feofan Grek" from the russian: Феофан Грек, Greek language, Greek: Θεοφάνης; c. 1340 – c. 1410) was a Greeks, Byzantine Greek artist and one of the greatest icon painters of Grand Duchy of Moscow, Muscovite Russia, who influenced the 15th-century painting style of the Novgorod School, Novgorod school and the subsequent Moscow school. He was noted as the teacher and mentor of the great Andrei Rublev. Life and work Theophanes was from the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople. After studying art and philosophy at the University of Constantinople, he moved to Novgorod in 1370, and in 1395 to Moscow. His style is considered unsurpassed in expression achieved by almost mono-colored painting. Some of his contemporaries observed that he appeared to be "painting with a broom", in reference to the bold, broad execution in some of his finest frescos (see :Image:Spas na Ilyine - Saint Macarius the Great.jpg, St. Makarios of E ...
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