Повесть о Феодорите Кольском(The Tale of Feodorit Kol'skij)

Abstract

This is a biography written by Prince A. M. Kurbskij about his spiritual father, Feodorit Kol'skij. It is the only work dedicated to Feodorit in the Old Russian literature. The vita offers extraordinary information about Feodorit's missionary work amongst the Lapponians of the Murmansk region, and his translations of Church Slavonic texts into the Saami language.

On the whole, the reliability of Kurbskij's story is confirmed by other sources. It is a valuable testimony by a contemporary, and it con-tains unique facts about the colonization and conversion of the Kola Pen- insula.