Tomorrow in Kalmykia will remember Nestor Chronicler
On the day of November 9, the Russian Orthodox Church remembers the monk of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Nestor Chronicle.
On the day of November 9, the Russian Orthodox Church remembers the monk of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Nestor Chronicle.
He was born in the middle of the XI century, at the age of 17 he took tonsure in the Kiev-Pechersk monastery, where he became a novice of the most Monk Theodosius. By the purity of life, prayer and obedience, the young monk, according to legend, soon surpassed even the famous Pechersk elders.
He went down in history as the author of the lives of the holy princes Boris and Gleb, the tales of the first Pechersk ascetics, as well as the “Tale of Bygone Years” – the first chronicle of Ancient Russia. The monk died in a very old age about 1114.
