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Story of Monomakh’s Life

Pieces of advice

Different animals and birds and different kinds of fish are decorated with Yours ideas, God! And we wonder how heavenly birds come from heaven and first of all come to our hands and do not settle down in one country but both strong and weak go to all countries after God’s will to feel woods and fields. And these heavenly birds are wise with You: when You enjoin they thing to make people happy, and when You do not enjoin, even if they have tongue, they keep silence.

Here it is written how I worked when hunting in Chernigov; and from the time when I left Chernigov and till this year I took without problems not taking into account hunting outside Turov, where I have hunted with my father on any animal. And in Chernigov I did the following: I has bind ten and twenty wild horses in the depth of the forest with my own hands.

Documentary notes

Provenance: Russia

Prince Monomakh, Vladimir Vsevolodovich

Period:1100-1125

Reference

Contributed by Yurashanskaya, Daria, m04yud01@student.ceu.hu

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