Steven Avery
Administrator
Mount Athos and Russia 1016-2016
editors Nicholas Fennell and Graham Speake
Acknowledgements
editors Nicholas Fennell and Graham Speake
Shumilo S. The First Russian Monks on Mount Athos // Mount Athos and Russia: 1016 – 2016 / N. Fennel, G. Speake (eds.). Oxford, 2018. P. 23-44
The birth of monasticism in Rus’ occurred under the direct influence of the monasteries of Mount Athos. Shortly after the Baptism of Rus’ on Mount Athos, an ancient monastery in honor of the Dormition of the Mother of God, known as the Ksilurga,
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