To the glory of the holy, consubstantial, life-creating, and undivided Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; by the command of our Most Pious, Autocratic Great Lord, THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER ALEXANDROVITCH of all Russia; before his Consort, the Most Pious Lady, THE EMPRESS MARIA THEODOROVNA; before His Heir, the Right-believing Lord, the Cesarevitch and Grand Duke, NICOLAUS ALEXANDROVITCH; before the Right-believing Lords, the Grand Dukes, GEORGE and MICHAEL ALEXANDROVITCH; before the Right-believing Lord, the Grand Duke, VLADIMIR ALEXANDROVITCH, and before His Consort, the Lady, the Grand Duchess MARIA PAVLOVNA; before the Right-believing Lords, the Grand Dukes, CYRIL, BORIS, and ANDREW VLADIMIROVITCH; before the Right-believing Lords, the Grand Dukes, ALEXIS, SERGIUS, and PAUL ALEXANDROVITCH; before the Right-believing Lord, the Grand Duke, CONSTANTINE NICOLAEVITCH, and before His Consort, the Right-believing Lady, the Grand Duchess, ALEXANDRA JOSEPHOVNA; before the Right-believing Lords, the Grand Dukes, NICOLAUS, CONSTANTINE, and DEMETRIUS CONSTANTINOVITCH; before the Right-believing Lord, the Grand Duke, NICOLAUS NICOLAEVITCH, and before His Consort, the Right-believing Lady, the Grand Duchess, ALEXANDRA PETROVNA; before the Right-believing Lords, the Grand Dukes, NICOLAUS and PETER NICOLAEVITCH; before the Right-believing Lord, the Grand Duke, MICHAEL NICOLAEVITCH, and before His Consort, the Right-believing Lady, the Grand Duchess, OLGA THEODOROVNA; before the Right-believing Lords, the Grand Dukes, NICOLAUS, MICHAEL, GEORGE, ALEXANDER, SERGIUS, and ALEXIS MICHAELOVITCH; and before the Right-believing Ladies, the Grand Duchess, XENIA ALEXANDROVNA, the Grand Duchess, MARIA ALEXANDROVNA, and before Her Consort, the Queen of the Hellenes, OLGA CONSTANTINOVNA, and before Her Consort, the Grand Duchess, VERA CONSTANTINOVNA, the Grand Duchess, ANASTASIA MICHAELOVNA, and before Her Consort, the Queen of Würtenburg, OLGA NICOLAEVNA, and before Her Consort, the Grand Duchess KATHERINE MICHAELOVNA, and the Grand Duchess HELEN VLADIMIROVNA; and with the Blessing of the Most Holy Governing SYNOD, this book TREBNIK, hath been printed in the royal city of Moscow at the Synodal Press in the year of the creation of the world viicccxc, and of the birth of God the Word according to the flesh mdccclxxxii, the xth of the indict, the month of June. [Illustration] THE DESIGNATION, WITH HOLY GOD, OF THE CHAPTERS CONTAINED IN THIS TREBNIK. _Chap._ _Page._ I. Prayers on the first day after a child is born to a woman 1 II. Prayer at the signing of a child when it receiveth a name on the eighth day after its birth 4 III. Prayers for a parturient woman after forty days 6 IV. Prayer for a woman when she hath aborted a child 11