The dating of Appearance of the icon of Mother of God Zhirovichskaja and of the beginning of church and monastic life in Zhirovichi in historical works of the 19-20 Centuries
The article concerns on the process of the development of representations on the dating of appearance of the icon of Mother of God called Zhirovichskaja, and on the beginning of church and monastic life in Zhirovichi in historical literature of 19-20 centuries. The study shows that there is no consensus on this issue in the historiography of the studied period. Considerable attention is paid to the critical analysis of the concept of dating the appearence of the Zhirovichi icon by Ignatius Stebelsky and the reception of his hypothesis in later historiography.