Archbishop Veniamin (Vasily Fedorovich Krasnopevkov-Rumovsky; 1739–1811) – bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, archbishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, as well as a spiritual preacher. He wrote many cultural monuments, but the work “The New Tablet, or Explanation of the Church, the Liturgy and all Church Services and Utensils,” which was first published in 1803 and republished many times in subsequent years, brought him great fame. Reproduced in the original author’s spelling of the 1858 edition (St. Petersburg: Printing house of I. Schumacher and L. Seryakov, 1858. – 816 pp).