An Appeal for Support from the Perushtitsa Monastery of St. Theodore Tiron and St. Theodore Stratelates to the Russian Tsar Aleksey Mihaylovich from 1647. 1. Background and Context Read more about An Appeal for Support from the Perushtitsa Monastery of St. Theodore Tiron and St. Theodore Stratelates to the Russian Tsar Aleksey Mihaylovich from 1647. 1. Background and Context