Biography Nestor

Nestor – a teacher, a monk of the Kiev-Pechersk monastery, was tonsured as monks, and then ordained a deacon. In 1091 he was instructed to open the power of the teacher. Theodosius. He died about 1114 no other information about him has survived. For a long time teacher N. attributed compilation of the first Russian chronicle – "Tale of Bygone Years", but with around half of the XIX century, this opinion is shaken. Defenders of his postscript based on the N., as the originator, a set of Khlebnikov (XV – XVI cc.) As well as words monk Polycarp in his epistle to the Crypt Archimandrite Akindin (XIII cent.): "Blessed N. debs in the Chronicle wrote an … PS Kazan was among the first pointed out ("Patriotic. Zap." In 1851) for a considerable number of inconsistencies with other works chronicles N. undoubtedly belong to him: "The Tale of Boris and Gleb" and "The Life of Feodosia. Other researchers have argued even that the drafters of the chronicle was not only AN, but not even a monk of the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery. "The Life of Theodosius (napis. about 1088) is considered for completeness and orderliness of the sample chronicle biography. It is rich in information about the Kiev-Pechersk monastery and persons living in it. "Life" translated into Russian LANG. His Eminence printed. Filaret in "Scientific Memoirs II CTD. Academy of Sciences" (1856, II etc.).