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The Medieval Church · c. 1220–1230
The Kyiv Caves Paterikon
Anonymous
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What it is
Stories of the monks of the Caves monastery — an icon painter, a doctor, a miser, a monk tormented by demons — collected from an exchange of letters between two churchmen.
Why it lasted
The most widely read book in medieval Rus after the scriptures, and the model of Russian monastic sanctity.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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