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Article: East Slavic lives of saints
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- The Ukrainian Weekly
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- February 19, 1995
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Marius L. Cybulski
Ukrainian Weekly, The
02-19-1995
East Slavic lives of saints.
"The Hagiography of Kievan Rus'," volume II in the English Translations Series of the Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature, gathers together the oldest and finest specimens of East Slavic lives of saints. The anthology includes several major works: a memorial for both Volodymyr and Olha, the Life of Abraamius of Smolensk, the Life of Theodosius of the Caves Monastery and three variant of the story of Borys and Hlib, all rendered in majestic English cadence by Dr. Paul Hollingsworth, past associate of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard. Appended to the main body of the volume are seven shorter ...