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« on: December 11, 2009, 10:35:43 AM »
(I originally posted this in the wrong forum and caught it right away so)
So, I was playing out ideas for another storyline for my writing group, and I thought, wouldn't it be fascinating if my main protagonist would be descended from a clergyman of sorts in Peter the Great's court, and was commissioned by Peter himself for a series of ikons or religious statues or both, or something along those lines, and this ancestor made two sets of these, one for the Tzar, and one for his family, to be passed down and preserved through the generations. So my question is this: Did Peter have, for example, a bishop or other clergyman specifically for his court or himself? Would icons be likely to be preserved through the centuries, and if not, then what kind of objects would be more realistic, more treasured? Would this clergyman be likely to make these objects? And how would they be suitable for royalty? And, lastly, how realistic is this plotline? I just thought it would be something special to show the protagonist how important religion was in his family's life, that through war, poverty, and persecution, they clung to their beliefs, and those icons and preserved them through the centuries, and the same blood flows in his veins. He is already a spiritual person, but is going through a rough time with some family problems. I thought knowing this information would be comforting to him.
Well, any advice would be welcome. Thanks, guys!
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