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The Oldest Monument of Russian Travel
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
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The oldest monument of Russian travel is the journey of the Archimandrite Daniel of Kiev to the Holy Land about A.D. 1106–7. Even earlier than this, we have allusions to Russian pilgrims and pilgrimages. Thus in the life of St. Theodosius of Kiev we are told of the visit of certain unnamed devotees to Palestine in 1022; and in 1062 St. Varlaam, head of the Lavra of Kiev, followed in their steps. But no personal record of a Russian traveller in this age (the eleventh century) has yet been found.
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Page 175 note 1 'Hγο⋯μενος, Abbot, Prior or Archimandrite.
Page 176 note 1 C. 860.
Page 177 note 1 A. D. 913.
Page 177 note 2 A. D 1093–1113.
Page 178 note 1 Like Ignatius of Smolensk in the fourteenth century (c. 1389), who records his journey along the Don, the Euxine, and Bosphorus.
Page 178 note 2 The class of such as John de Piano Carpini and his successors in missionary and diplomatic travel from Christendom to the Mongol Courts.
Page 179 note 1 ‘The Latins began to mumble after their manner’ at the Easter Eve service.
Page 180 note 1 E.g. twice too great for the Sea of Galilee.
Page 182 note 1 Omar the Caliph. This mention by name of a Moslem historic figure is unusual, but William of Tyre also mentions Omar.
Page 184 note 1 His outward way had been in the train of an army.
Page 184 note 2 Among the companions of Daniel at the Holy Sepulchre were the following natives of Kiev and Novgorod: Iziaslav Ivanovitch, Gorodislav Mikhailovitch, the two Kashkitch, and others. Among the Russian princes commemorated by him in Palestine were Mikhail Sviatopolk, of Kiev, grandson of Yarosláv the Great; Vassili Vladimirovitch; David Sviatoslavitch; Mikhail, Oleg, and Pancrati Sviatoslavitch; and Gleb of Minsk. ‘Their names and those of their wives and children and of the Russian bishops, abbots, boyars, and faithful Christian people, I did not fail to commemorate at all the holy places’.