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Primary

All are from section I.C.c of Serge A. Zenkovsky, Medieval Russia’s epics, chronicles, and tales, revised and enlarged edition. NY: Dutton, 1974. Numbers in parentheses refer to Heppell discourses (see the Recommended readings, below).

26. Bishop Simon: Viking Shimon and St. Theodosius, 135–38 (1)
27. Bishop Simon: The coming of the Greek Iconographers from Constantinople to Aboot Nikon 138–40 (2)
28. Bishop Simon: John and Sergius, 140–41 (5)
29. Bishop Simon: Prince Sviatosha of Chernigov, 142–47 (20)
30. Monk Polycarpe: Marko the gravedigger who was obeyed by the dead, 147–52 (32)

Secondary

• Morris, Marcia A. 1993. Kievan ascetics: Resistance to the type. Saints and revolutionaries: The ascetic hero in Russian literature, chapter 2. NY: SUNY, 33–64.
• Prestel, David Kirk. The Kievan Caves Monastery: what do monks have to do with the world? Russian history 33/2–3–4 (Summer–Fall–Winter 2006), 199–216.

Editions

• Abramovič, D. I. (red.). 1911. Pamjatniki slavjano-russkoj pis′mennosti, II. Paterik Kievskogo Pečerskogo monastyrja. SPb.
• Abramovyč, Dmytro. 1931. Kyjevo-pečers′kyj pateryk. Pam′jatky movy ta pys′menstva davn′oï ukraïni, IV. Kyïv: AN. Reprint: Das Paterikon des kiever Höhlenklosters, ed. D. Čiževskij. Slavische Propyläen 2. München: Eidos. 1964.
• Kievo-pečerskij paterik. 1980. Podg. teksta, per. i kom. L. A. Dmitrieva. Pamjatniki literatury drevnej rusi. XII vek. M: Xudožestvennaja literatura. 313–626, 692–704. Available on line at http://lib.pushkinskijdom.ru/Default.aspx?tabid=4945.
• Heppell, Muriel, trans. 1989. The Paterik of the Kievan Crypt Monastery. Harvard library of Early Ukrainian Literature. English translations, 1. Cambridge, MA: HU.

Scholarship

• Abramovic, D. I. 1898. Neskol′ko slov v dopolnenie k issledovaniju A. A. Šaxmatova Kievo-Pečerskij paterik i Pečerskaja letopis′. SPb.
• Abramovic, D. I. 1901. Issledovanie o Kievo-Pečerskom paterike kak istoriko-literaturnom pamjatnike. IORJaS 6, 207–35.
• Bubner, Friedrich. 1969. Das Kiever Paterikon: Einer Untersuchung zu seiner Struktur und den literarischen Quellen. Diss. Karl Ruprecht Universität, Heidelberg. Publ. Augsburg: Blasaditsch.
• [Eremin, I. P.] 1941. Kievo-Pečerskij paterik. Istorija russkoj literature. T. 1. M-L: AN SSSR. 338–46.
• Eremin, I. P. 1968. Kievo-Pečerskij paterik. Lekcii po drevnej russkoj literature. L: LGU. 31–36.
• Fedotov, George P. 1973. The saints of the Kievan Caves Patericon. The Russian religious mind. I. Kievan Christianity. The 10th to the 13th Centuries. The collected works of George P. Fedotov, 3. Belmont, MA: Nordland. 142–57.
• Pamjatniki literatury drevnej rusi. XII vek. M. 313–626, 692–704.
• Pope, Richard. The literary history of the Kievan Caves Patericon up to 1500. Diss. Columbia University, 1970.
• Prestel, David Kirk. Comparative analysis of the Kievan Crypt Patericon. Diss. University of Michigan, 1983.
• Prestel, David Kirk. The search for the word: echoes of the apophthegma in the Kievan Caves Patericon. Russian review 1057:4 (1998): 568–82.
• Šaxmatov, A. A. 1897. Kievo-Pečerskij paterik i Pečerskaja letopis′. SPb.
• Tvorogov, O. V. 1980 Kievo-Pečerskij paterik. Istorija russkoj literatury X–XVII vekov. Pod red. D. S. Lixačeva. M: Prosveščenie.108–11.
• von Lilienfeld, Fairy. The spirituality of the early Kievan Caves Monastery. Christianity and the eastern Slavs: Volume I, ed Boris Gasparov and Olga Raevsky-Hughes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. 63–76.

A. Introduction: Foundation, building, decoration, consecration

1. Concerning the building of the church (Z; begun 1073, consecrated 1089) [Originally part of the Simon Cycle.]
2. Arrival of the craftsmen from Constantinople
3. When the church of the Caves Monastery was founded
4. The coming of the church-painters (Z)
5. A miracle concerning Ioann and Sergij (Z)
6. The holy table and the consecration of the great Church

B. Theodosius Cycle

7. An account of why the Caves Monastery is so called [Šaxmatov attributes this to Nestor; Heppell is less certain.]
8. The Life of our venerable father Feodosij (Nestor)
9. The translation of the relics of Feodosij (around 1091) [This and the following two texts mention Nestor, but Heppell is skeptical about their authorship.]
10. The decoration of Feodosij’s coffin (around 1129)
11. An encomium to our venerable father Feodosij

C. Miscellaneous

12. The first monks of the Caves Monastery (Damian, Ieremej, Matfej; see also #36)
13. How Nifont saw Feodosij in a divine revelation (1156)

D. Simon Cycle

14. An epistle from the Bishop Simon to Polikarp
15. Simon’s narrative about the holy monks
16. Blessed Evstratij the Faster
17. The meek and long-suffering monk Nikon
18. The holy martyr Kukša and Pimin the Faster
19. Holy Afanasij the Solitary
20. The venerable Svjatoša (Z)
21. The monk Erazm
22. The monk Arefa
23. The priest Tit and the deacon Evagrij

E. Polikarp Cycle

24. A second epistle, to Archimandrite Akindin
25. Nikita the Solitary
26. Lavrentij the Solitary
27. The holy and blessed Agapit
28. Holy Grigorij the Miracle-worker
29. The much-suffering Ioann the Solitary
30. Venerable Moisej the Hungarian
31. The monk Proxor
32. Venerable Marko the Cave-Dweller (Z)
33. The holy venerable fathers Feodor and Vasilij
34. Spiridon the baker and Alimpij the Icon-painter
35. The venerable and long-suffering father Pimin

F. Addenda

36. Venerable Isaakij the Cave-Dweller (combined with monks in #12 in PVL 1074)
37. The pious prince Izjaslav’s inquiry (pseudo-Feodosian treatise against the Latins) [First introduced in Second Cassian redaction 1462.]
38. The death of Polikarp, and the priest Vasilij (1182)