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Nestor the Chronicler
Saint and chronicler of Kievan Rus'
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 1056
- Died
- 1114
- Place of birth
- Kyiv
- Place of death
- Kyiv
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Nestor
- Occupation
- writer, historian, hagiographer, monk, chronicler
- Citizenship
- Kievan Rus'
- Native language
- Old East Slavic
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- canonization status
- The Venerable
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Russian Biographical Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Historical Dictionary of Russian Writers, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8
- honorific prefix
- hierodeacon
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Old East Slavic, Old Church Slavonic
- name in native language
- Нестор Летописец
- notable work
- Primary Chronicle
- place of burial
- Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
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