Cyril and Methodius

18 hrs. 21 min.

Language Russian

Author Yury Loshchits

Narrator Kirill Petrov

Description

The creators of Slavic writing, brothers Constantine (who shortly before death took the monastic name Cyril) and Methodius, are revered throughout the Slavic world. Their life’s feat is not in vain compared to the apostolic one, calling them the “first teachers of the Slavs.” Hailing from the Greek city of Thessaloniki (Salonika), they not only created the alphabet used to this day by many peoples (not only Slavs!), but also translated the Gospel and liturgical books into Slavic, allowing the Slavs to pray to God in their native language.

The biography of Saints Cyril and Methodius offered to readers is written by the writer Yuri Mikhailovich Loshchits, well known to lovers of biographical literature as the author of books “Skovoroda,” “Goncharov,” and “Dmitry Donskoy,” previously published in the series “The Life of Remarkable People.” Two of the oldest literary and historical monuments of Old Slavic writing became reliable guides for the author—“The Life of Constantine the Philosopher” and “The Life of Methodius” (the so-called “long” lives of the Thessalonian brothers). Many pages of the book are written as a detailed commentary on these monuments of a remote era, representing an attempt at artistic and scholarly reconstruction.