Biography Pakhomy

Pachomius (died 1655) – writer XVII century. From 1638 to 1641, he was abbot of the monastery Khoutyn Novgorod, then Archbishop of Astrakhan. In 1649 – 1650 years. was the chronicle, the first of which – reducing chronograph ("Chronicler briefly from the creation of the world"), and the second – the reduction of the Russian chronicles ("Chronicler briefly on Russian soil, etc.). When the list chronicles P. preserved copy of his letter to Hieromonk Mishael, whom he entrusted the correspondence of his labor.