# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philotheus-of-pskov
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:07:36.614Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philotheus-of-pskov"
name: "Philotheus of Pskov"
slug: "philotheus-of-pskov"
description: "Philotheus was a hegumen of the Yelizarov Monastery, near Pskov, in the 16th century. He is credited with authorship of the Legend of the White Cowl and the Moscow - Third Rome prophecy, details of which are very scarce. He is popularly known as the presumed author of the concept of Moscow as the Third Rome; Philotheus set out this thesis in his letters to the priest Mikhail Grigorievich Misyur-Munekhin and to Grand Duke Vasily III."
tagline: "Elder of Spaso-Eleazar Monastery near Pskov (died 1542)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1465"
deathDate: "1542"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.72
  momentum:             6.540580904315584
  historical:           15.37530933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Филотей Псковски"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filofei"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philoth%C3%A9e_de_Pskov"
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    title: "Филофей Псковский"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump