indicates 1010 as the date of his death, but most historians recognize this date to be wrong. Nikolay Karamzin indicated, that Abraham was acting in Rostov during or after Andrey Bogolyubsky ( 1111 – 1174). The activity of Abraham in Rostov dates from 1073–1077 years according to Vasily Klyuchevsky; Macarius Bulgakov refers it to (?)-1045 years, Andrei Titov - the end of the XI - the beginning of the XII century, Filaret (Gumilevsky) - the beginning of the XII century. Evgeny Golubinsky was skeptical about the very fact of the existence of Abraham, apparently considering him a single person with Abraham Galitzki and referring his activity to the last quarter of the fourteenth century (according to the legend, the latter lived the same years as Yury Dmitrievich, born in 1374). Arseny Kadlubovsky does not consider Abraham to be the founder of the Theophany Monastery, and also relates his life to the fourteenth century. References Sources Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary External links Venerable Abramius the Archimandrite of Rostov Orthodox icon and synaxarion Житие преподобного отца нашего Аврамия Ростовского (Legend of venerable Abraham of Rostov) Holweck, F. G., A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924. 10th-century births 1070s deaths Russian saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church Russian Orthodox monks 11th-century Christian saints 11th-century Christian monks