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501 Text|            often. Forget not nor be remiss in this observance, for
502 Text|         good and perfect men. After rendering praise to God at matins,
503 Text|        years to come, so that, as I repent my sins and order my life
504 Text|       yourself as you deem best." I replied, "At the risk of your wrath,
505 Text|      established by God for noonday repose, since birds and beasts
506 Text|   travellers give a man a universal reputation as generous or niggardly.~
507 Text|             to subdue your body, to restrain your wrath; and to cherish
508 Text|             God and your own souls, retain the fear of God in your
509 Text|           the church and before you retire to rest. If it is in any
510 Text|          father's place, and myself retired to my father's domain of
511 Text|       Chernigov. (1077) Then, on my return from Smolensk, I rejoined
512 Text|             the dwellings, lest men revile you. Wherever you go, as
513 Text|           justice to the people, or ride out for hunting or for pleasure,
514 Text|        servant, lest they who visit ridicule your house or your table.
515 Text| conversation and the word of God in right measure. He taught them
516 Text|           my sins and order my life righteously, I may thus continue to
517 Text|     attacked the Polovtsians behind Rimov, and God stood by us, so
518 Text|           best." I replied, "At the risk of your wrath, I cannot
519 Text|         When journeying anywhere by road through your domain, do
520 Text|           for the Lord's sake. When robbed, avenge not; when hated
521 Text|            upon the adulteress, the robber and the publican, have pity
522 Text|     advanced to meet them as far as Romny with Oleg and my sons. When
523 Text|          for such liberality is the root of all good. If this document
524 Text|              my father set me up to rule in Pereiaslavl, and we crossed
525 Text|         speedily. But our Lord, the ruler of life and death, suffers
526 Text|            but commonly known by my Russian name Vladimir, and surnamed
527 Text|       villages and monasteries, and said, "It is not for the pagans
528 Text|           and glorify God among his saints. Without fear of death,
529 Text|             let us reason together, saith the Lord; if your sins be
530 Text|            the two princes Asin and Sakza, the brothers of Bagubars,
531 Text|        approached Kosniatin, and we sallied forth from Pereiaslavl to
532 Text|       seized the princes Asaduk and Sauk, and killed their followers.
533 Text|        people, for I was many times saved from all distress through
534 Text|           with gladness once again, saying, "Thou hast lightened my
535 Text|            Lord; if your sins be as scarlet, I will make them white
536 Text|            day, behind Novgorod, we scattered the powerful force of Belkatgin,
537 Text|            of man. As you read this screed, prepare yourselves for
538 Text|          the sons of Rostislav, and seize their possessions. If you
539 Text|       Polovtsians. At the Desna, we seized the princes Asaduk and Sauk,
540 Text|            thus captured alive only Semtsia and a few peasants. Our
541 Text|         eating or sleeping. Set the sentries yourselves, and take your
542 Text|             s work, my sons, as God sets it before you If I suffered
543 Text|            these three means is not severe. But I implore you for God'
544 Text|          refrain from converse with shameless women; to cast their eyes
545 Text|           including two brothers of Sharukan, three brothers of Bagubars,
546 Text|          dayspring of fasting shall shine forth, and likewise the
547 Text|           children. The Polovtsians showed their teeth at us, as they
548 Text|            sons, praise God who has shown us his mercy and admonished
549 Text|            priests, and priors, and shun them not, but rather, according
550 Text|             or niggardly.~Visit the sick, and accompany the dead,
551 Text|       without unseemly noise; to be silent in the presence of the aged;
552 Text| whencesoever he comes to you, be he simple, or noble, or an emissary.
553 Text|          way possible, fail not one single night to kneel to the ground
554 Text|      praised God, who has led me, a sinner, even to this day. Let not
555 Text|              have pity also upon us sinners," and utter these words
556 Text|       continue to praise God." Then sit and deliberate with your
557 Text|     Smolensk with Stavko the son of Skordiata; he then went to Brest with
558 Text|         from my horse, fractured my skull twice, and in my youth injured
559 Text|         city and left in it neither slaves nor cattle. (1084) In that
560 Text|             had cast into the river Slavlia Koxus and his son, Aklan,
561 Text|         time in drinking, eating or sleeping. Set the sentries yourselves,
562 Text|           him for eight days by the small entrenchment and would not
563 Text|             will make them white as snow. (Is. i, 18.) ~The dayspring
564 Text|           to adopt it all. When God softens your hearts, shed tears
565 Text|             attainment. Not through solitude nor an ascetic life, nor
566     | some
567 Text|          Iaropolk as prince, but he soon died.~1093 After the death
568 Text|     dismissed the emissaries, in my sorrow I took up the Psalter, when
569 Text|            the first. "Why art thou sorrowful, soul? Why dost thou disquiet
570 Text|           accustomed to chase every sort of game while in my father'
571 Text|          enjoy eternal blessing. Oh sovereign Mother of God! Take away
572 Text|          did not reck of my life or spare my head. In war and at the
573 Text|          your horse, if you have no special subject of conversation
574 Text|            occasion, I rode at full speed in one day from Chernigov
575 Text|       destroy and to shed his blood speedily. But our Lord, the ruler
576 Text|             from every corporal and spiritual blemish, and, as we call
577 Text|              and I looked after the stables, the falcons, and the hawks.
578 Text|             horse on their horns, a stag once gored me, one elk stamped
579 Text|         stag once gored me, one elk stamped upon me, while another gored
580 Text|            Second, to Smolensk with Stavko the son of Skordiata; he
581 Text|      yourselves. Rely not upon your steward or your servant, lest they
582 Text|             mankind. Being of human stock, we, are so sinful and mortal
583 Text|             Furthermore, honour the stranger, if not with a gift, at
584 Text|      without difficulty used all my strength in hunting, not to mention
585 Text|           Let the faithful learn to strive with pious effort. According
586 Text|            I opened it this passage struck my eye: "Why art thou cast
587 Text|            moderate your temper, to subdue your body, to restrain your
588 Text|              if you have no special subject of conversation with a companion
589 Text|          the souls of our Christian subjects, and upon the burned villages
590 Text|             sets it before you If I suffered no ill from war, from wild
591 Text|            ruler of life and death, suffers our sins to be higher than
592 Text|       remained in Pereiaslavl three summers and winters with my retainers,
593 Text|           whom he chastens and then summons once more to embrace.~Thus
594 Text|            following day, which was Sunday, we arrived at Bela Vezha.
595 Text|     Pereiaslavl, and we crossed the Supoi. ~While we were on our way
596 Text|          went to Novgorod, while I, supported by Polovtsians, marched
597 Text|   understand how merciful, yea, how supremely merciful is God, the lover
598 Text|         falling from my horse, then surely no one can harm you and
599 Text|          Russian name Vladimir, and surnamed Monomakh by my beloved father
600 Text|             peace with the Poles at Suteiska. Thence back to Vladimir
601 Text|          pursued the Polovtsians to Sviatoslavl, thence to Torchesk, and
602 Text|          speak either good or evil, swear not by the name of God,
603 Text|             me, a boar once tore my sword from my thigh, a bear on
604 Text|           Belkatgin, and took their swords and all their booty. We
605 Text|         ridicule your house or your table. When you set out to war,
606 Text|             and pray, "As thou hast taken pity upon the adulteress,
607 Text|           let anyone of my sons who takes my words to heart and is
608 Text|      believe that, in my old age, I talked nonsense as I sat upon my
609 Text|       Burchevich, Azgului prince of Tarev, and fifteen other young
610 Text|            Polovtsians showed their teeth at us, as they stood like
611 Text|            tongue, to moderate your temper, to subdue your body, to
612 Text|           my bare hands or captured ten or twenty live horses with
613 Text|             to any other man, first test your heart as to whether
614     | thee
615     | themselves
616     | thereby
617 Text|          once tore my sword from my thigh, a bear on one occasion
618     | thine
619 Text|          and infinitely better than thinking evil thoughts. Above all
620 Text|    Polovtsian chieftains with eight thousand men. We were ready and willing
621 Text|        beast jumped on my flank and threw my horse with me. But God
622     | thy
623 Text|            say, "We are but mortal; today we live and tomorrow we
624 Text|           mortal; today we live and tomorrow we shall be in the grave.
625 Text|             your eyes, to curb your tongue, to moderate your temper,
626     | too
627 Text|           to Sviatoslavl, thence to Torchesk, and still further to Iuriev. (
628 Text|       another gored me, a boar once tore my sword from my thigh,
629 Text|    Voronitza. At this juncture, the Torks and Chiteeviches came from
630 Text|       horses barehanded. Two bisons tossed me and my horse on their
631 Text|    equipment ahead with the baggage train and we therefore entered
632 Text|          noble, or an emissary. For travellers give a man a universal reputation
633 Text|            few days." Hoard not the treasures of earth, for therein lies
634 Text|            concluded nineteen peace treaties with the Polovtsians with
635 Text|         thee, lover of mankind!" In truth, my children, understand
636 Text|            and then made peace with Tugortkan and other Polovtsian chiefs.
637 Text|            hands or captured ten or twenty live horses with the lasso,
638 Text|           horse, fractured my skull twice, and in my youth injured
639     | under
640 Text|           in his own country, still understood five languages. For by this
641 Text|            me. But God preserved me unharmed.~I often fell from my horse,
642 Text|             travellers give a man a universal reputation as generous or
643 Text|             life of the just or the unjust, nor permit him to be killed.
644     | unless
645 Text|             yourselves, for that is unnecessary. Whenever you kiss the Cross
646 Text|           we arrived at Pereiaslavl unscathed.~I remained in Pereiaslavl
647 Text|            eat and to drink without unseemly noise; to be silent in the
648 Text|          who were pure in heart and untainted in body, inculcated in them
649 Text|            downward and their souls upward; and to walk and not to
650 Text|      attacked the Polovtsians under Urusoba in company with Sviatopolk,
651     | used
652 Text|            thereby.~Forget not what useful knowledge you possess, and
653 Text|             not make me inactive or useless for all the necessary works
654 Text|           in this empty life by the vanity of this world. Let the faithful
655 Text| subsequently captured their camp at Varin. I then went to Vladimir
656 Text|       wretched man that I am, named Vasilii at my baptism by my pious
657 Text|          Sunday, we arrived at Bela Vezha. With the aid of God and
658 Text|      against lying, drunkenness and vice, for therein perish soul
659 Text|      Polovtsians at the Sula in the vicinity of Khalep, and then made
660 Text|            years in these dangerous vicissitudes, and did not make me inactive
661 Text|            Lord has promised us the victory over our enemies through
662 Text|           destroy your souls by its violation. Receive with affection
663 Text|          another's company to visit violence upon the villages or upon
664 Text|          aid of God and of the Holy Virgin, our troops killed nine
665 Text|            my kinsmen met me on the Volga with the message, "Join
666 Text|          set out a second time from Voronitza. At this juncture, the Torks
667 Text|             at Lubno, and God again vouchsafed us his aid. In company with
668 Text|           and Boniak had approached Vyrev with the intention of capturing
669 Text|          their souls upward; and to walk and not to leap. He taught
670 Text|        Odresk, carrying on constant warfare, and thence travelled to
671 Text|             upon your captains, nor waste your time in drinking, eating
672 Text|             had burned, and there I watched their city. Then I went
673     | well
674 Text|          least with food and drink, whencesoever he comes to you, be he simple,
675     | Whenever
676     | where
677     | Wherever
678     | whether
679 Text|           scarlet, I will make them white as snow. (Is. i, 18.) ~The
680     | whither
681     | whoever
682     | whole
683 Text|     thousand men. We were ready and willing to fight with them, but
684 Text|           listen with profit to the wise; to humble themselves before
685 Text|       through the medium of my poor wit. Give heed to me, and accept
686     | within
687 Text|            a kindly word. Love your wives, but grant them no power
688 Text|           at us, as they stood like wolves at the fords and in the
689 Text|             wild beasts, do a man's work, my sons, as God sets it
690 Text|          life by the vanity of this world. Let the faithful learn
691 Text|      observance, for by his nightly worship and hymn man conquers the
692     | would
693 Text|             disquiet me?" etc. (Ps. xliii, 5.) I collected these precious
694 Text|            understand how merciful, yea, how supremely merciful