c. 1037–1050
Old Church Slavonic
Sermon on Law and Grace
Hilarion of Kyiv · 11th century
A rhetorically brilliant sermon contrasting the law given to one nation with the grace poured out on all, and praising the prince who baptised the Rus.
1001–1100
The Eleventh Century
3 works
1073
Old Church Slavonic
The Izbornik of 1073
Anonymous
An anthology of patristic extracts on doctrine and morals copied for a prince of Kyiv from a Bulgarian original, illuminated with a portrait of the ruling family.
Rus · AnthologyRead elsewhere
c. 1080–1088
Old Church Slavonic
The Life of Theodosius of the Caves
Nestor the Chronicler · c. 1056–c. 1114
The founder of the Kyiv Caves monastery, who ran away from a wealthy mother to become a monk and insisted on doing the heaviest work himself.
Rus · BiographyRead elsewhere
1101–1200
The Twelfth Century
1 work
c. 1113
Old Church Slavonic
The Tale of Bygone Years
Povest' vremennykh let
Attributed to Nestor the Chronicler · c. 1056–c. 1114
The history of the Rus from the flood to 1110, including the envoys sent to compare religions who reported that in Constantinople they did not know whether they were in heaven or on earth.
Rus · ChronicleRead elsewhere
1201–1300
The Thirteenth Century
1 work
c. 1220–1230
Old Church Slavonic
The Kyiv Caves Paterikon
Anonymous
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.
Rus · AnecdotesRead elsewhere