Life of Anthony Pechersky – a monument of Old Russian literature, one of the oldest monuments of Old Russian hagiography, created no later than the 1090s and about the life and asceticism of the Monk Anthony, the of the Kiev Caves Monastery and one of the founders of Russian monasticism. The life has not survived in its entirety and is the result of reconstruction. Content Anthony was born in the city of Lyubech, not far from Chernigov. Received monastic tonsure…