About the Law given by Moses, and about the Grace and Truth revealed by Jesus Christ, and how the Law passed, and Grace and Truth filled the whole earth, and faith spread throughout all peoples up to our Russian people; and praise to our great prince Vladimir, with whom we were baptized; and prayer to God from ...

In the family of a God-fearing merchant, a first-born son is born. Parents love him and constantly pray to him for God. The son grows up and is interested in commercial affairs, discovering in his conversations with his father a sound mind and ingenuity. When the merchant’s relatives are going to go overseas to trade, the son asks his father to give him three hundred rubles ...

Once, St. Archbishop John said night prayers in his cell. And the demon climbed into his wash basin. The saint baptized this vessel with water, and the demon could not go out. Then he prayed to John to let him go. The saint agreed, but with the condition that the demon will take him that night to Jerusalem ...

The beginning of the story is about how God granted victory to the Emperor Grand Duke Dmitry Ivanovich after Don over the filthy Mamai and how the prayers of the Holy Mother of God and Russian miracle workers Orthodox Christianity - God elevated the Russian land, and the godless Hagarians shamed. Prince of the eastern country Mamai, pagan ...

During the Time of Troubles, the merchant Thomas Grudtsyn-Usov lived in Veliky Ustyug. Having suffered many troubles from the invasion of the Poles, he moved to Kazan - the Poles had not yet reached there. He lived in Kazan with his wife, until Mikhail Fedorovich reigned. And he had a twelve-year-old son, Savva. Thomas went to trade sometimes ...

In the Tale (the revision of the Rogozh chronicler and the Tver collection is considered here, which has to be clarified, since the Tale, like many works of ancient Russian literature, existed in several editions, significantly different in content), it tells about the events of 1326–1327. Tverskoy ...

The story of the invasion of the Lithuanian king Stephen with a great and proud army on the great and glorious God-saved city of Pskov; from where and how and in what way God sent him for our sins to the Russian land and how, by the great mercy of the Pre-Original Trinity, to us sinful Christians, he left the city of Pskov with ...

On the same day. Description of the life and torment of St. Eustathius, and his wife Theopistius, and their children Agapius and Theopistos. During the reign of the Roman emperor Trajan, a brave and virtuous husband, the stratilate of Placidus, lives. Both he and his wife are pagans, but they do good deeds. The philanthropist God wants to save Placidus ...

Residents of the big city of Gebala, on the Palestinian side, turned their backs on God and worship idols, venerating them according to traditions and according to the royal command. God repays the inhabitants of Gebal by faith and their deeds: a huge Serpent appears in a nearby lake, which comes out of the water and devours people. All ...

The chronicler begins the narrative in 1201, with the reign of the great princelyagalitsky Roman. He notes that in his deeds, Roman followed the example of his grandfather Vladimir Monomakh. After the death of the prince in Russia, a great turmoil began. In 1202, Rurik gathered an army of Polovtsy and Russians and went to Galich. But ...

In 1223, peoples came to Russia about which no one knew: they did not know their name, nor what their language and faith. Who called them Tatars, who are taurmens, and who are Pechenegs. It was only known that they conquered many lands, many peoples captivated. According to the Tver chronicler, God allowed ...

Akir was an adviser to the Synagogue, king of the Ador and Naliv lands. He was announced from God that he would remain childless. Akir had a wife and great wealth, but there was no heir. He raised up the altars and began to pray to God for the birth of a son. But God commanded the king's adviser to take his nephew ...

Two years after the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was transferred, the godless king Batu came to Russia. He becomes with his army on the Voronezh River near Ryazan. Batu sends ambassadors to Prince Ryazan Yuri Ingorevich, offering the following conditions: the Ryazan prince will immediately give a tenth of everything ...

The Holy Mother of God wanted to pray to God, so that the archangel Michael would tell her about the torment of heaven and earth. Then Michael came down from heaven and with him four hundred angels. The virgin and the archangel greeted each other. Archangel Michael said that he does not list all the torments that exist. But the Virgin asked ...

The medieval novel about Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) offers its own version of the acts of the great commander of antiquity, saturating the story with the most incredible events. From the very beginning, the author convinces the reader not to believe those who say that the Macedonian king Philip is Alexander’s father....

There lived a poor noble Frol Skobeev in the Novgorod district. In the same county was the estate of the landlord Nardin-Nashchokin. Frol conceived of “making love” with Annushka. He met with the clerk of this estate, went to visit him. At this time, a mother came to them, who was constantly with Annushka. Frol gave ...

The “Tale” is directly preceded by a message from Dmitry from Rome to Archbishop Gennady, in which he reports that the Greek original of the tale of the white hood was not preserved and he could hardly find only the Latin translation of this work. Dmitry’s own translation of this monument into Russian ...

Now it’s good to recall our blessed shepherd Jonah, in a brief at least a word. Well, after all, he did not have to adorn the hierarchal throne of Veliky Novgorod for three years - only three years - but he managed to show great kindness and goodness and be remembered by everyone. This blessed Jonah was still a child, and God is already ...

There lived a rich merchant Karp Sutulov with a beautiful wife, whose name was Tatiana. Karp had a friend, Athanasius Berdov. Going to go to Lithuanian land, Karp came to a friend and asked him to help with money Tatiana, who was left alone to manage the house. Athanasius agreed. Karp promised to pay him off after ...

About the messengers sent by King Leucius, called Basil at baptism, whom he sent to Babylon to take the famous values ​​from the three holy youths - Ananias, Azariah and Misael. Greek Guri, Georgian Jacob, Russian Lavra - heroes of the translated story sent by the Byzantine king Vasily to Babylon for the famous ...