The invisible presence of Athos in the inner life of Rus', of the Third Rome manifests itself in waves (floods and ebbs), in the combs of the waves, generally contemporizes with an enlargement of the Greek-Slavonic-Russian relationship and had a great impact on the Southern Slavic culture through the books of the Athon. This is right for the early period of Russian history as well as for more later times. Comb, flood, contacts with the Athon are usually a time of spiritual ascent of the Russian nation.
The study deals with one of the important areas of the emergence and formation of Russian icon painting. Addresses the issue of patterns, according to which to write icons of Russian saints. Notes that the source of the information of contemporaries, alternatively, the images arising during the life of the saints and also their posthumous miraculous revelation. In the 18th century with the model for the icons they become portraits of the spiritual.
The article discusses the history of the text of the Bulgarian Saint Ilarion Meglinskij in the structure of the Personal Annalistic code, its translation into modern Russian.