Abstract:
The article examines the data about the monk Konon-Konstantin, a Hungarian by origin. He died in 1015, but information about him appeared only at the end of the 19th century. On the basis of publications in Tver Diocesan Lournal, it can be argued that for centuries, legends about Konstantin Novotorzhsky, a monk or a blessed one, were kept on Tver land. In 1876, a book was published in St. Petersburg by I. Krasnitsky, a citizen of Tver, who collected traditions and legends of Tver land. Among them there is a small message about Constantine. Tverskoy Patericon was skeptical of this tradition. However, despite the later origin of legend, it should not be discarded, since it contains details that could not have been invented in the 19th century, however, these details shed light on some known data from old sources.
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