Sylvester Medvedev

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Sylvester (Russian: Сильвестр, romanized: Silvestr; secular name: Simeon Agafonovich Medvedev; 6 February 1641 – 21 February 1691) was a Russian writer, poet, and theologian.^[1] He was a student of Simeon of Polotsk.^[2]