Abstract
Whilе he Life of St. Theodosius of the Kievan Caves written by Nestor still attracts attention of researchers, liturgical texts devoted to the Saint remain unexplored. This study examines Canons to St. Theodosius in the Service for the feast of his Repose (May 3) found in different types of manuscript miscellanies dating from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries (menaia, tropologia, books of Canons, miscellanies of church services and lives of saints) in possession of the Library of the Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg), the Library of the Academy of Sciences of Lithuania, the Russian State Library (Moscow), the National Library of Russia (St. Petersburg), and the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (Moscow). The Canons to St. Theodosius are all the more interesting because their origin is traditionally associated with the monk of the Kievan Caves Monastery Grigory, the “creator of canons”, whose literary heritage remains virtually unknown. Special attention is given to the relationship these texts have with translated Greek services to the saints of the same title as Theodosius (the venerable) and hagiographic literature. The article also points out a number of previously unknown copies of the Acrostic Canon discovered by F. G. Spassky.
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