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Yury Nyrin Goliash
Jeweller, goldsmith. Brother of Stepan Nyrin Goliash. Master of the Gold Chamber in the Moscow Kremlin. Contributed to the covers of the Gospels donated by Tsar Feodor III to the Upper Saviour Cathedral and the Church of the Renewal of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Jerusalem in the Terem Palace (1677–78).
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