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The correspondence between the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church during the synodal period forms an extensive collection of various information valuable both for historians and for philologists, as well as for linguists, sociologists and ordinary readers. The letters change our ideas about the role of the clergy and learned monasticism in Russian statehood, society, culture, and break the stereotypes about this period in the history of the Russian Church. Meanwhile, the epistolary heritage of clergy remains understudied and rarely introduced into scientific and reader circulation. The author of the article has prepared for academic publication letters to St. Gavriil (Gorodkov) from inspectors of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy during his first year of study (1809‒1814), fellow students at the Academy, students of the Orel Theological Seminary (1817‒1818) during the years of St. Gabriel, as well as from other correspondents, namely Exarch of Georgia, Metropolitan of Kartalinsky and Kakheti Jonah (Vasilevsky), Archbishop Ambrose (Rozhdestvensky-Veshchezerov), Archbishop Athanasius (Protopopov), Metropolitan Gregory (Postnikov), Archbishop Kirill (Bogoslovsky-Platonov), Archbishop Venedikt (Grigorovich ), Bishop Jeremiah (Soloviev), Bishop Nikolai (Dobrokhotov), Archbishop Anthony (Amfiteatrov), Bishop Joseph (Velichkovsky), Bishop Jacob (Krotkov), Archpriest Jacob (Gladkov).