Deacon Ignjatije ( sr, Ђакон Игњатије) was a Russian

deacon A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. Major Christian churches, such as the Catholic Chur ...

who accompanied Metropolitan Pimen during his travel to

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya ( Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...

at the end of the 14th century. Ignjatije was also mentioned as Grk Ignjatije of the Church of Archangel Michael in

Smolensk Smolensk ( rus, Смоленск, p=smɐˈlʲensk, a=smolensk_ru.ogg) is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, west-southwest of Moscow. First mentioned in 863, it is one of the oldest ...

. Together with

hieromonk A hieromonk ( el, Ἱερομόναχος, Ieromonachos; ka, მღვდელმონაზონი, tr; Slavonic: ''Ieromonakh'', ro, Ieromonah), also called a priestmonk, is a monk who is also a priest in the Eastern Orthodox Church an ...

of his church, bishop Michail and Metropolitan Pimen he traveled to Constantinople and its region in 1389. Ignjatije wrote the earliest record about the Battle of Kosovo, only 12 days after the battle. He recorded that a man who loyally served Prince Lazar ( sr, у цара српскога Лазара неки верни слуга) was slandered as traitor. With intention to prove his loyalty during the battle this man pretended that he deserted Lazar's troops, went to the sultan

Murad I Murad I ( ota, مراد اول; tr, I. Murad, Murad-ı Hüdavendigâr (nicknamed ''Hüdavendigâr'', from fa, خداوندگار, translit=Khodāvandgār, lit=the devotee of God – meaning "sovereign" in this context); 29 June 1326 – 15 Jun ...

and killed him. The name of this man is added ( Miloš) to some later transcripts of Ignjatije's original text although it was not presented in the original manuscript.

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