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 1 Text| surnamed Monomakh by my beloved father and mother and for the sake
 2 Text|       through the prayers of my father.~As I sat upon my sledge,
 3 Text|     loves us all our lives as a father loves his son whom he chastens
 4 Text|      Honour the ancient as your father, and the youth as your brother.~
 5 Text|      not acquainted, even as my father, though he remained at home
 6 Text|       your bed. For this was my father's habit, and it is likewise
 7 Text|         Viatichians, whither my father had sent me while he himself
 8 Text|         city. Then I went to my father in Pereiaslavl, and after
 9 Text|      the summer, I went with my father to Polotsk, and during the
10 Text|         Smolensk, I rejoined my father in Chernigov a second time.~
11 Text|   invited him to dinner with my father at the Red Palace in Chernigov,
12 Text|        Chernigov, and I gave my father three hundred grivnas of
13 Text|   Pereiaslavl, where I found my father newly arrived from a raid.
14 Text|       raid. Then I rode with my father and Iziaslav to Chernigov
15 Text|  friendship. In that winter, my father set me up to rule in Pereiaslavl,
16 Text|      1093 After the death of my father, Sviatopolk and I together
17 Text|    therefore gave my kinsman my father's place, and myself retired
18 Text|        and myself retired to my father's domain of Pereiaslavl.
19 Text|       from Chernigov to join my father in Kiev. Among all my campaigns,
20 Text|  Polovtsians with or without my father's aid, and dispensed much
21 Text|        sort of game while in my father's company.~At Chernigov,
22 Text|    comes from God, then neither father, nor mother, nor brethren