On the time of creation of the Extensive edition of the Live of Nikon of Radonezh
The article considers the general source of the Extensive edition of the Life of Nikon of Radonezh (the time of creation of the text is so far unknown), and the first edition of the Life of Metropolitan Jonah, composed in 1547. Borrowings from the Homilies «against Jews» of John Chrysostom in both Lives have similar digressions from the original, and testify, that both texts are to be attributed to the same author, or that the compilators of both Lives used common draft materials and, consequently, lived in in the same time and belonged to the same circle. The Life of Nikon of Radonezh wrote one of the scribes employed by Metropolitan Makarius in the sixteenth century for writing of the lives of the new Russian miracle-workers. Thus, dating accepted by some researches of the Extensive edition of the fifteenth century and its attribution to Pachomius the Serb should be recognised as false.