Kyiv Caves Patericon

The Kyiv Caves Patericon or the Kyiv-Pechersk Patericon (Ukrainian: Києво-Печерський патерик), full title: Patericon, or the Life of Saint Fathers of Kyiv Caves is a monument of Old Russian literature, a collection of tales about the monks of the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, later Lavra. One of the most original works of Russian hagiographic literature. Its basis consists of texts written by the Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal, Simon, and the monk of the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, Polycarp, supplemented over the centuries with additional biographies of the monks.