Abstract: The article considers to the sources of the Vita of St. German, Archbishop of Kazan. The set of Evidence of Metropolitan Lavrenty highlighted by the author is an oral source of Life reflected in the text — stories of Kazan Metropolitan Lavrenty II. The main body of evidence can’t be recognized as a reliable source on the political history of the 16th century. At the same time, evidence are of considerable interest as a monument to the Nikonian ideology of the middle of the 17th century.

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