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'''Daniel Kievsky''', Daniil Polomnik (the Pilgrim), Daniel of Kiev, or Danil of Kiev, was the first Russian travel writer.<ref name ="anzovin1"> Anzovin, p. 201, item 3391: ''The first Russian travel writer was Daniel of Kiev, called in Russian Daniel Kievsky.'' </ref><ref>Merriam-Webster, p. 298 ''Daniel, the Pilgrim, also called Daniel of Kiev, (fl. 12th century). The earliest known Russian travel writer, whose account of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land is the ealiest surviving record in Russian of such a trip.''</ref><ref name ="jstor1"> {{cite web|url= http://www.jstor.org/pss/3678151|title=The Oldest Monument of Russian Travel|accessdate= 2008-09-02}}</ref> |
'''Daniel Kievsky''', Daniil Polomnik (the Pilgrim), Daniel of Kiev, or Danil of Kiev, was the first Russian travel writer.<ref name ="anzovin1"> Anzovin, p. 201, item 3391: ''The first Russian travel writer was Daniel of Kiev, called in Russian Daniel Kievsky.'' </ref><ref>Merriam-Webster, p. 298 ''Daniel, the Pilgrim, also called Daniel of Kiev, (fl. 12th century). The earliest known Russian travel writer, whose account of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land is the ealiest surviving record in Russian of such a trip.''</ref><ref>Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1911), ''DANIEL (DANIL), of Kiev, the earliest Russian travel-writer, and one of the leading Russian travellers in the middle ages.''</ref><ref name ="jstor1"> {{cite web|url= http://www.jstor.org/pss/3678151|title=The Oldest Monument of Russian Travel|accessdate= 2008-09-02}}</ref> |
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Daniel Kievsky, Daniil Polomnik (the Pilgrim), Daniel of Kiev, or Danil of Kiev, was the first Russian travel writer.[1][2][3][4]
Travels
Kievsky traveled during the time of the middle ages.[5] He journeyed to the West from the Russian monastery where he lived as an igumen.[5] This monastery was probably near Chernigov in Little Russia. He began his travels in 1106 CE or 1107 CE.[4][6] His jouneys took him to Constantinople by way of Cyprus to the Holy Land. He stayed in the Jerusalem area for over a year. During this time he explored the Dead Sea, Hebron, and Damascus. He learned much of the regions from his three major excursions to the Dead Sea and Lower Jordan (which he compares to the Snov River), Bethlehem and Hebron, and Damascus. He wrote his journeys in narratives he titled Puteshestive igumena Daniila.[6]
Kievsky's narratives begin at Constantinople.[5] His description of the Holy Land preserves a record of conditions that are peculiarly characteristic of the time.[5] He describes the Saracen raiding almost up to the walls of Christian Jerusalem and the friendly relations subsisting between Roman and Eastern churches in Syria. Kievsky visited Palestine in the reign of Baldwin I of Jerusalem and apparently soon after the crusading capture of Acre, Israel (1104 CE).[5] He claims to have accompanied Baldwin on an expedition against Damascus (c. 1107 CE).[5] The records show that Baldwin treated Kievsky with much friendliness.
Kievsky's account of Jerusalem is descriptive and accurate.[5] His observant and detailed record of Palestine is among some of the most valuable medieval documents that exists.[5] In spite of what he did write he left out some of the most interesting parts of his journey. In his writings he made some major mistakes in topography and history.[5] Kievsky's narratives are also important in the history of the Russian language and in the study of ritual and liturgy of the time (i.e description of the Easter services in Jerusalem and the Descent of the Holy Fire).[5] Kievsky records that several of his Russian friends from Kiev and Old Novgorod are present with him at the Easter Eve "miracle" in the church of the Holy Sepulchre.
There are seventy-six manuscripts of Kievsky's narratives of which only five are before the year 1500 CE.[5] The oldest is of 1475 CE of which three editions still exist in Saint Petersburg at the Library of Ecclesiastical History.
Reference
- ^ Anzovin, p. 201, item 3391: The first Russian travel writer was Daniel of Kiev, called in Russian Daniel Kievsky.
- ^ Merriam-Webster, p. 298 Daniel, the Pilgrim, also called Daniel of Kiev, (fl. 12th century). The earliest known Russian travel writer, whose account of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land is the ealiest surviving record in Russian of such a trip.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1911), DANIEL (DANIL), of Kiev, the earliest Russian travel-writer, and one of the leading Russian travellers in the middle ages.
- ^ a b "The Oldest Monument of Russian Travel". Retrieved 2008-09-02.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Merriam-Webster, p. 298
- ^ a b Anzovin, p. 201, item 3391
Bibliography
- Anzovin, Steven, Famous First Facts', H. W. Wilson Company (2000), ISBN 0-8242095-8-3
- C. R. Beazley, Dawn of Modern Geography, ii. 155-174. (C. R. B.), has the account of Kievsky.
- I. P. Sakharov's (St Petersburg, 1849), Narratives of the Russian People, vol. ii. bk. viii. pp. 1-45.
- Me B. de Khitrovo, Itineraires russes en orient, (Geneva, 1889) (Societe de l'orient latin) in French.
- Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Merriam-Webster (1995), ISBN 0-8777904-2-6
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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