Text of the book “The Tale of Peter and Fevronia of Murom (collection)”

Author: Ermolai – Erasmus

Year of publication of the book: 1547

The book of Ermolai - Erasmus “The Tale of Peter and Fevronia of Murom”, along with “The Tale of Bygone Years”, is considered one of the best examples of ancient Russian creativity. It was written after the canonization of Saints Peter and Fevronia at the Moscow Council. The main characters of the story themselves supposedly lived in Murom and died in 1228. The full title of the work is “The Tale of the Lives of the New Saints, Miracle Workers of Murom, the Blessed and Reverend and Worshipful Prince Peter, named in the monastic rank of David, and his wife, the Blessed and Reverend and Praised Princess Fevronia, named in the monastic rank of Euphrosyne.”

The plot of “The Tale of Peter and Fevronia of Murom” briefly

In “The Tale of Peter and Fevronia of Murom” you can read about the events unfolding in the city of Murom. Prince Peter rules in this city. The devil ordered the winged serpent to fly to Peter's wife for fornication. The serpent appeared in front of everyone in the guise of Peter, and in front of his wife in its true guise. The prince's wife said that a snake had taken possession of her by force. But the prince did not know what to do. And he then ordered his wife to ask the serpent how to destroy him. By cunning, the woman asked the snake what his death would be like. The serpent assured that he would die from “Petrov’s shoulder and Agrikov’s sword.” The prince had a brother Peter, but no one knew where to get Agrikov’s sword.

The prince's brother loved to visit churches alone. During one of these campaigns, a youth approached him and offered to show Agrikov a sword. Peter did not hesitate and took it out of the altar wall between the slabs. He told his brother about this, and everyone began to wait for the right moment. And this moment did not fail to happen. Every day Peter went to his brother and daughter-in-law to pay them respects. And then one day he went to his brother, and from him he went to his daughter-in-law. But Peter was already there. Then he returned to his brother’s chambers and told him not to leave here. He took the sword of the Agrics and struck the snake with it. The snake took on its natural form, but before dying, it splashed Peter with its blood. And in those places where the serpent’s blood got in, Peter developed terrible ulcers. Not a single doctor could cope with these ulcers.

Further in the “Tale of Peter and Fevronia of Murom” in a brief summary you will find out how the main characters met. Peter went to the land of Ryazan, where there were many good doctors. One of the princely youths wandered into the village of Laskovo and entered the house of the tree frogs. This was the name given to the honey collectors who climbed trees for it. In this house he met Fevronia, who charmed him with her wisdom and words. He told her about Peter’s trouble and the girl agreed to help. But only with one condition. If she cures Peter, she will be his wife.

The main character of “The Tale of Peter and Fevronia of Murom” was dismissive of the girl’s words. He made a promise, but did not intend to marry the tree frog’s daughter. The girl took a bowl of sourdough bread, blew on it three times and ordered the prince to heat the bathhouse. And those places that are covered with the ulcer, anoint with leaven, except for one. It seemed too simple to the prince and he ordered to give the girl a bunch of flax. From it he ordered that while he was in the bathhouse, they would sew him a shirt, clothes, and a scarf. The servant conveyed Peter's words to the girl. She also ordered to cut off a log of wood and make a weaving mill from it while she combed out a bunch of flax. Peter marveled at such words and ordered it to be conveyed that this was impossible. Then Fevronia told me to tell you that you couldn’t even sew a shirt from a bunch of flax.

Peter carried out Fevronia’s orders exactly. And the very next day he was healed. He sent gifts to the girl, who Fevronia did not accept, and he himself went to Murom. But from that one ulcer that he did not anoint, new ones came from him and they became the same as before. Then he returned again to the girl and asked to cure him again. Fevronia, not at all offended, set the same conditions. This time Peter was cured and took the girl as his wife. They returned to Murom and lived piously.

Further in “The Tale of Peter and Fevronia of Murom” you can read about how Prince Paul died and Peter took his place on the throne. But Fevronia’s class offended the wives of the boyars. Then they began to slander her, saying that she was collecting crumbs from the table. But when the prince decided to check it, fragrant incense was found in his wife’s hands. Then the boyars began to ask the prince to choose a new wife. But Peter ordered the boyars to ask Fevronia about this. And when, during the feast, all the boyars as one began to ask Fevronia to leave, she said that she would leave only with the prince. The boyars were happy. After all, everyone saw themselves as an autocrat. Peter did not dare to break the laws of God.

The boyars quickly assembled ships and Peter and Fevronia sailed along the Oka. One man sailed with them, whose wife was on the same ship. He looked at Fevronia with a thought, but the saint immediately understood this thought. She told him to drink water first from the right side of the boat, and then from the left. And she asked which water tastes better. The man replied that it was the same. “So female nature is the same,” Fevronia answered him. In the evening they stopped for the night. The cook cut down several small trees to install the vat. The saint came up and said that in the morning these would be big trees. And so it happened. And in the morning messengers arrived from Murom. They asked the prince to return. After all, the boyars, as in Boris Akunin’s book “The Widow’s Cloth,” carried out a terrible massacre, trying to sit on the throne. Prince Peter and Fevronia returned to Murom and ruled wisely.

When the time came for them to perform a pious performance, Peter and Fevronia began to pray that they would die on the same day. And they even ordered themselves to make two coffins with a thin partition from one stone. At that time, the main character of “The Tale of Peter and Fevronia of Murom” was working on the faces of saints for the Church of the Most Pure Mother of God. She received news from her husband that he would soon die and asked her to return. Fevronia asked to wait. And so twice. The third time she went to her husband and they died on the same day, June 25.

But people decided to break the prince’s covenant. Separate coffins were built for them and placed in separate parts of the city. But in the morning both bodies lay in their double coffin. Then people once again separated Peter and Fevronia, but in the morning they were together again. So they remained together in the city church of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The story of Peter and Fevronia. Muromsky

Prince Pavel ruled in the city of Murom. The devil sent a flying serpent to his wife for fornication. He appeared to her in his own form, but to other people he seemed to be Prince Paul. The princess confessed everything to her husband, but he did not know what to do. He ordered his wife to ask the serpent why death could come to him. The serpent told the princess that his death would be “from Peter’s shoulder, from Agrikov’s sword.”

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The prince had a brother named Peter. He began to think about how to kill the serpent, but did not know where to get Agrikov’s sword. Once in the church of the Vozdvizhensky Monastery, a child showed him Agrikov’s sword, which lay in a gap between the stones of the altar wall. The prince took the sword.

One day Peter came to his brother. He was at home, in his room. Then Peter went to his daughter-in-law and saw that his brother was already sitting with her. Paul explained that the serpent can take on his form. Then Peter ordered his brother not to go anywhere, took Agrikov’s sword, came to his daughter-in-law and killed the serpent. The serpent appeared in his nature and, dying, sprinkled Peter with blood.

Peter's body was covered with ulcers, he became seriously ill, and no one could cure him. The patient was brought to Ryazan land and they began to look for doctors there. His servant came to Laskovo. Entering one house, he saw a girl weaving cloth. It was Fevronia, the daughter of a poison dart frog who extracts honey. The young man, seeing the wisdom of the girl, told her about the misfortune that befell his master.

Fevronia replied that she knew a doctor who could cure the prince, and offered to bring Peter to her house. When this was done, Fevronia volunteered to take on the treatment herself if Peter took her as his wife. The prince did not take her words seriously, because he did not consider it possible to marry the poison dart frog’s daughter, but promised to do so if he was healed.

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She gave him a vessel of her bread leaven and ordered him to go to the bathhouse and anoint all the ulcers there with leaven, except one. Peter, wanting to test her wisdom, sent her a bunch of flax and ordered her to weave a shirt, ports and a towel from it while he was in the bathhouse. In response, Fevronia sent him a stump of log so that the prince could make a loom out of it during this time. Peter told her that this was impossible. And Fevronia replied that it was also impossible to fulfill his command. Peter marveled at her wisdom.

The next morning he woke up healthy - there was only one ulcer on his body - but did not fulfill his promise to marry Fevronia, but sent her gifts. She didn't accept them. The prince left for the city of Murom, but his ulcers multiplied and he was forced to return to Fevronia in shame. The girl healed the prince, and he took her as his wife.

Pavel died, and Peter began to rule Murom. The boyars did not like Princess Fevronia because of her origin and slandered Petra about her. One person said, for example, that Fevronia, getting up from the table, collects crumbs in her hand as if she were hungry. The prince ordered his wife to dine with him. After dinner, the princess collected crumbs from the table. Peter unclenched her hand and saw incense in it.

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Then the boyars directly told the prince that they did not want to see Fevronia as a princess: let him take whatever wealth he wants and leave Murom. They repeated the same thing at Fevronia’s own feast. She agreed, but only wanted to take her husband with her. The prince followed God's commandments and therefore did not part with his wife, although he had to renounce his principality. And the boyars were pleased with this decision, because each of them wanted to be a ruler himself.

Peter and Fevronia sailed out of the city along the Oka. On the ship where Fevronia was, there was another man with his wife. He looked at Fevronia with some thought. And she told him to scoop up water on the right and left sides of the boat and drink. And then she asked which water tastes better. Hearing that she was the same, Fevronia explained: female nature is the same, so there is no point in thinking about someone else’s wife.

Food was prepared on the shore, and the cook cut down small trees to hang the cauldrons on. And Fevronia blessed these trees, and the next morning they became large trees. Peter and Fevronia were planning to move on. But then nobles from Murom came and began to ask the prince and princess to return to rule the city.

Peter and Fevronia, having returned, ruled meekly and fairly.

The couple begged God to die at the same time. They wanted to be buried together and ordered two coffins to be carved in one stone, which had only a partition between them. At the same time, the prince and princess took monasticism. Peter received the monastic name David, and Fevronia became Euphrosyne.

Euphrosyne embroidered air for the temple. And David sent a letter to her: he was waiting for her to die together. The nun asked him to wait until she finished embroidering the air. In the second letter, David wrote that he could not wait long, and in the third, that he could wait no longer. Then Euphrosyne, having finished embroidering the face of the last saint, but not finishing the clothes, sent to tell David that she was ready to die. And after praying, they both died on June 25th.

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Their bodies were laid in different places: David - at the Cathedral Church of the Mother of God, and Euphrosyne - in the Vozdvizhensky Convent. And their common coffin, which they themselves ordered to hew, was placed in the Church of the Virgin Mary.

The next morning, their separate coffins were empty, and the bodies of the saints rested “in a single coffin.” People buried them as before. And the next morning they were found again in a common coffin. Then people no longer dared to touch the bodies of the saints and, having fulfilled their will, buried them together in the cathedral church of the Nativity of the Virgin. Those who come to their relics with faith receive healing.

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"The Tale of Peter and Fevronia of Murom"

From the editors of “Russia Forever”: Today is the All-Russian Day of Family, Love and Fidelity. It is on this day, July 8, that the Russian Orthodox Church commemorates the blessed princes Peter and Fevronia, the Murom miracle workers, who set an example of selfless love. This miracle is narrated in the famous “Tale of Peter and Fevronia,” written by the famous spiritual writer of the mid-16th century, priest Ermolai.

It is noteworthy that in the Old Russian Legend, central importance is assigned to the wise Fevronia, a commoner who became not just a co-ruler of her husband-prince, but the savior of his life, both physical and spiritual, who raised her husband and their union to the ideal of perfection and righteousness.

As Academician Likhachev writes: “Fevronia is like Rublev’s quiet angels. She is the “wise maiden” of fairy tales. External manifestations of her great inner strength are stingy. She is ready for the feat of self-denial, she has conquered her passions. Her love for Prince Peter is invincible externally because she is defeated internally, by herself, subordinated to the mind. At the same time, her wisdom is not only a property of her mind, but to the same extent - her feelings and will. There is no conflict between her feeling, mind and will: hence the extraordinary “silence” of her image.”

Below we present the article “The Tale of Peter and Fevronia of Murom” by the outstanding scientist Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev from his famous work “The Great Heritage. Classic works of literature of Ancient Rus'." Also from the website Pravoslavie.ru we present a wonderful summary of “The Tale of Peter and Fevronia of Murom”, illustrated in an icon of the 17th century.

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“THE TALE OF PETER AND FEVRONIYA OF MUROM”

There is debate about the time of the appearance of “The Tale of Peter and Fevronia of Murom”. Some researchers attribute it to the 15th century, others to the beginning of the 16th. Judging by the fact that the church cult of Peter and Fevronia in Murom took shape already in the second half of the 15th century, it is more likely that the “Tale” in some original form unknown to us was compiled already at that time. However, the “Tale” acquired its final form, as R.P. Dmitrieva has now proven, under the pen of Ermolai Erasmus, a writer who worked in the middle of the 16th century.

“The Tale of Peter and Fevronia” is a combination of two folklore stories: one about a seducing snake and the other about a wise maiden. These plots in the “Tale” are connected and dedicated to Murom, and the entire story claims to be historically accurate.

The charm of “The Tale” lies in the simplicity and clarity of presentation, in the sedate slowness of the story, in the narrator’s ability not to be surprised by the surprising, in the simplicity and good-naturedness of the characters that harmonizes with the narrator’s calmness.

The heroine of the story is the maiden Fevronia. She is wise with folk wisdom. She makes wise riddles and knows how to resolve life's difficulties without fuss. She does not object to her enemies and does not insult them with open teaching, but resorts to allegory, the purpose of which is to teach a harmless lesson: her opponents themselves realize their mistakes. She works miracles in passing: she makes the branches stuck for the fire bloom into a large tree overnight. Her life-giving power extends to everything around her. Crumbs of bread in her palm turn into grains of fragrant incense. Prince Peter tries to deceive her only once, at the beginning, when he decides not to marry her, contrary to his promise. But after the very first lesson taught to him by Fevronia, he listens to her in everything and, having got married, lives with her in harmony, their love crosses the threshold of death.

“This is a city in the Rustei land, called Mur” - this is how the story begins simply. In this city, as the narrator says, the blessed Prince Paul reigned. And the rapist serpent began to fly to his wife. To outsiders, he took on the appearance of Paul. Pavel's wife told her husband about her misfortune, and both began to think about how to get rid of the rapist.

One day, when the serpent again flew to Paul’s wife, she asked the serpent “with respect”: “You know a lot, do you know your death: what will it be and from what?” Seduced by the “good seduction” of Paul’s wife, the serpent replied: “My death is from Peter’s shoulder, from Agrikov’s sword.”

Paul's brother, Peter, decides to kill the serpent, but does not know where he can get Agrikov's sword. He finds this sword on one of his trips to private prayer in a country temple in the altar between the “ceramides,” that is, ceramic tiles that usually covered burials.

Having made sure that it is not Paul who is sitting in the temple of Paul’s wife, but a serpent who has taken on the appearance of Paul, Peter strikes him with Agric’s sword. His true appearance returns to the serpent, and he dies “trembling”, sprinkling Peter with his blood. From this blood Peter is covered with scabs. His illness cannot be cured. Peter's terrible illness serves as the beginning of the second part of the story, where the wise maiden Fevronia appears and heals the prince. There is something in common in the details of this part of the story with the Western European medieval narrative of Tristan and Isolde.

Fevronia is like Rublev’s quiet angels. She is the “wise maiden” of fairy tales. External manifestations of her great inner strength are stingy. She is ready for the feat of self-denial, she has conquered her passions. Her love for Prince Peter is invincible externally because she is defeated internally, by herself, subordinated to the mind. At the same time, her wisdom is not only a property of her mind, but to the same extent - her feelings and will. There is no conflict between her feeling, mind and will: hence the extraordinary “silence” of her image.

The first appearance in the story of the girl Fevronia is captured in a visually distinct image. She is found in a simple peasant hut by an envoy of the Murom prince Peter, who fell ill from the poisonous blood of the snake he killed. In a poor peasant dress, Fevronia sat at the loom and was engaged in a “quiet” task - weaving linen, and a hare was jumping in front of her, as if symbolizing her merging with nature. Her questions and answers, her quiet and wise conversation clearly show that “Rublev’s thoughtfulness” is not thoughtless. Fevronia amazes the messenger with her prophetic answers and promises to help the prince. Well-versed in healing potions, she heals the prince, just as Isolde heals Tristan, infected with the blood of the dragon he killed.

Despite social obstacles, the prince marries the peasant girl Fevronia. Like the love of Tristan and Isolde, the love of Peter and Fevronia overcomes the hierarchical barriers of feudal society and does not take into account the opinions of others. The arrogant wives of the boyars disliked Fevronia and demanded her expulsion, just as the vassals of King Mark demanded the expulsion of Isolde. Prince Peter renounces the principality and leaves with his wife. The life-giving power of Fevronia’s love is so great that the poles stuck in the ground bloom into trees with her blessing. She is so strong in spirit that she can unravel the thoughts of the people she meets. In the power of love, in the wisdom suggested to her by this love, Fevronia turns out to be superior even to her ideal husband, Prince Peter. Death itself cannot separate them.

When Peter and Fevronia felt the approach of death, they began to ask God to die at the same time, and prepared a common coffin for themselves. After that they became monks in different monasteries. And so, when Fevronia was embroidering “air” for the holy cup for the temple of the Mother of God, Peter sent her to tell her that he was dying, and asked her to die with him. But Fevronia asks to give her time to finish the bedspread. Peter sent to her a second time, ordering her to say: “I won’t wait long enough for you.” Finally, sending her for the third time, Peter tells her: “I already want to die and I’m not waiting for you.” Then Fevronia, who only had to finish the saint’s robe, stuck a needle into the bedspread, wrapped a thread around it and sent it to tell Peter that she was ready to die with him. So Tristan delays the hour of his death. “The time is approaching,” Tristan says to Isolde, “haven’t we drunk all the sorrow and all the joy with you? The deadline is approaching. When it comes, and I call you, Isolde, will you come?” “Call me, friend,” Isolde replies, “you know that I will come.”

After the death of Peter and Fevronia, people put their bodies in separate coffins, but the next day their bodies ended up in a common coffin that they had prepared in advance. People tried to separate Peter and Fevronia a second time, but again the bodies were together, and after that they no longer dared to separate them. In the same way, in the victory of love over death, Tristan descends on Isolde’s grave with a blooming thorn tree (in some versions of the novel about Tristan and Isolde, their bodies end up in the same coffin). The images of the heroes of this story, whom neither the boyars nor death itself could separate, are surprisingly psychological for their time, but without any exaltation. Their psychological nature is outwardly manifested with great restraint.

Let us also note the restraint of the narrative, as if echoing the modesty of the manifestation of feelings. The gesture of Fevronia, sticking a needle into the bedspread and wrapping a golden thread around the stuck needle, is as laconic and visually clear as Fevronia’s first appearance in the story, when she was sitting in a hut at a loom, and a hare was jumping in front of her. To appreciate this gesture of Fevronia wrapping a thread around a needle, we must remember that in ancient Russian literary works there is no everyday life, no detailed descriptions - the action in them takes place as if in cloth. In these conditions, Fevronia’s gesture is precious, like the gold embroidery that she sewed for the “holy” cup.

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THE TALE OF PETER AND FEVRONIA IN ICON STAMPS

The famous “Tale of Peter and Fevronia” was written by the famous spiritual writer of the mid-16th century, priest Ermolai (in monasticism Erasmus). Almost immediately it becomes the favorite reading of the Russian people and is distributed in a huge number of lists. About 350 of them have survived to this day. Many of these lists were decorated with miniatures, and soon hagiographic icons of the locally famous Murom saints Peter and Fevronia, and in monasticism David and Euphrosyne, also appeared. We invite you to read this story based on the marks of one of the icons of the 17th century. Moreover, the first, capital mark of the icon begins and ends the story. The images (unfortunately, with some losses) are accompanied by a translation that is as close as possible to the author's text.

Icon of the Murom saints Prince Constantine with their children Michael and Theodore, Peter and Fevronia and Juliania Lazarevskaya with the life of Peter and Fevronia. XVII century

CITY OF MUROM. THE TALE ABOUT PRINCE PAUL, AND ABOUT HOW THE SERPENT FLYED TO HIS WIFE, PRESENTING TO THE AROUND AS HER HUSBAND, AND ABOUT THE RIGHTEOUS PETER AND FEVRONIA

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There is a city in the Russian land called Mur.

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Prince Paul is on the throne, the boyars and townspeople stand before him. The serpent, taking the guise of a prince, flies to his wife. The princess tells her husband about her trouble

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It was ruled by a noble prince named Paul. From time immemorial, the devil, who has hated good in the human race, ordered the hostile serpent to fly to the wife of that prince for fornication. And he appeared to her as an obsession in his natural appearance, but to the people who came it seemed as if it was the prince himself sitting with his wife. Much time has passed in such obsession. The wife did not hide this and told the prince, her husband, about everything that had happened to her. The evil serpent did violence to her.

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The princess reveals herself to her husband, Prince Pavel. He advises her to find out from the serpent the secret of his death.

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The prince thought about what to do with the snake, and could not come up with an idea. And he said to his wife: “I’m thinking, wife, and I’m perplexed, what should I do with that evil one? I don’t know what kind of death to give him. When he talks to you, try to ask about this: does this villain know in his spirit that he is being threatened with death? If you find out something and tell us, then you will be freed not only in this century from its evil breath, and hissing, and vileness, which is disgusting to even talk about, but also in the future life you will appease the unhypocritical judge Christ.” The wife firmly imprinted her husband’s words in her heart and decided: “Okay, so it will be.”

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The princess finds out the secret of his death from the serpent and informs her husband about it.

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One day, when a malicious snake came to her, she, well remembering the words engraved in her heart, turns with flattery to that villain, speaks sweet speeches to him and finally asks him with respect, praising him: “You know a lot, but do you know about your death: what will it be like and why? He, the hostile seducer, seduced by the affectionate flattery of his faithful wife, without hesitation, utters a secret to her, saying: “My death is from Peter’s shoulder, from Agrikov’s sword.” The wife, having heard such speeches, kept everything firmly in her heart and, after the departure of the enemy, she told the prince, her husband, what the snake had told her. The prince, having heard this, was perplexed, what kind of death was this “from Peter’s shoulder and from Agrikov’s sword”?

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Prince Pavel calls his brother Peter to him and tells him about the secret of the snake's death

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He had a brother named Prince Peter. One day he called him to him and told him the words of the serpent that he had spoken to his wife. Prince Peter, having heard from his brother that the serpent named his namesake as the culprit of his death, began to think, without hesitation and courageously, how to kill the serpent. But only one thing confused him: he knew nothing about Agric’s sword.

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In the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross, a youth appears to Prince Peter and shows Agrikov a sword lying in a crevice in the altar wall

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Peter had the habit of walking around churches in solitude. There was a church of the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross outside the city in a convent. And Peter came there alone to pray. And then a youth appeared to him, saying: “Prince, do you want me to show you Agrikov’s sword?” The prince, trying to fulfill his desire, said: “Yes, I will see!” Where is he?" The boy said: “Follow me.” And he showed him in the altar wall between the ceramides a hole in which the sword lay.

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Prince Peter shows the sword to his brother and bows to his daughter-in-law

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The noble Prince Peter, taking that sword, came and told his brother about this. And from that day on he began to look for an opportunity to kill the snake. Every day he went to his brother and his daughter-in-law to bow.

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Prince Peter discovers that a serpent has appeared to the princess under the guise of her husband.

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It happened one day that he came to his brother’s mansion, and immediately going to his daughter-in-law in another mansion, he saw his brother sitting with her. Returning from her, he met one of his brother’s servants and asked: “I went out from my brother to my daughter-in-law, but my brother remained in his mansion; I, without delaying anywhere, quickly came to my daughter-in-law’s mansion, and I don’t understand, and I’m surprised how my brother ended up in my daughter-in-law’s mansion before me?” The same man answered Peter: “Sir, after your departure, your brother did not leave his choir!” Peter then understood the craftiness of the crafty serpent. He came to his brother and asked: “How did you come here? After all, I left you from this mansion, and, without delaying anywhere, I came to your wife in the mansion, and saw you sitting with her, and was surprised how you ended up there before me. I came to you again, again, without slowing down anywhere, but you, I don’t know how, overtook me and ended up here before me.” Paul said: “Brother, I didn’t leave this choir anywhere after you left, and I didn’t visit my wife.” Prince Peter said to this: “Here it is, brother, the cunning of the crafty serpent: in your guise he appears to me so that I do not dare to kill him, mistaking him for you - my brother. Now, brother, don’t go anywhere from here. I will go there to fight the serpent, and with God’s help this evil serpent will be killed.”

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Prince Peter kills the snake

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And, taking a sword called Agrikov, he came to the mansion to his daughter-in-law. And, seeing the serpent in the form of his brother and firmly convinced that it was not his brother, but a serpent seducer, he struck him with a sword. The serpent appeared in its true form, began to wriggle, and died, sprinkling the blessed Prince Peter with its blood.

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Prince Peter on his sick bed. Those coming tell him about the Ryazan land, famous for its doctors

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Peter, from that harmful blood, became covered with scabs and ulcers, and a serious illness came upon him. And he sought healing in his country from many doctors, but could not get it from anyone. Peter heard that there are many healers within the Ryazan land...

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Prince Peter is taken to search for doctors in Ryazan land

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...and ordered himself to be taken there, because he himself could not sit on a horse due to a great illness. He was brought to the borders of the Ryazan land, and sent his entire synclite to look for doctors.

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Prince Peter's servant comes to the house of the maiden Fevronia

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One of the young men ahead of him escaped to a village called Laskovo. And he came to the gate of a certain house, and saw no one there. And he entered the house, and no one heard him. And he entered the temple and saw a wonderful vision: a girl was sitting, weaving cloth, and a hare was jumping in front of her.

And the girl said: “It is not good for a house to have no ears and a temple to have no eyes!” The young man, not understanding those words, asked the girl: “Where is the male person who lives here?” She answered: “My father and mother went to cry. My brother went over his feet to look into the eyes of death.”

The young man, not understanding her words, was surprised, seeing and hearing such wonderful things, and asked the girl: “When I came to you, I saw you at work, and I saw a hare jumping in front of you, and I heard some strange words from your lips, I didn’t even understand what you were talking about. ... She answered him: “Don’t you understand this? When you came to this house and entered my temple, you saw me sitting in simplicity. If there were a dog in our house, then, sensing you, approaching the house, it would bark at you - this is the house’s ears. And if there was a child in my temple, then, when he saw you approaching the house, he would tell me - these are the temple’s eyes. And when I told you that my father and my mother went on loan to cry, they went to the burial of the dead and wept there. When death comes for them, others will begin to cry for them - this is borrowed crying. I told you this about my brother because my father and brother are tree climbers, they collect honey from trees in the forest. My brother has now left for this task, and when he climbs high into a tree and looks at the ground through his legs, he will think: how not to fall from the height. If anyone breaks down, he will lose his life. That’s why I said that he went through his legs to look into the eyes of death.”

The young man said to her: “I see, girl, that you are wise. Tell me your name." She answered: “My name is Fevronia.” That young man told her: “I am a man of the Murom prince Peter - I serve him. My prince received a serious illness and ulcers.” He was covered with scabs from the blood of a hostile flying snake, which he killed with his own hand. And in his country he sought healing from many doctors, and did not receive it from any one. For this reason, I ordered myself to be brought here, because I heard that there are many doctors here. But we don’t know their names, we don’t know their homes, that’s why we ask about them.” She answered: “If someone asked for your prince, he could heal him.” The young man said: “What are you saying so that someone can claim my prince for themselves?!” If someone heals him, my prince will give him great wealth. But tell me the name of the doctor, who he is and where his dwelling is.” She answered: “Bring your prince here. If he is kind-hearted and humble in his answers, he will be healthy!”

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The servant tells Prince Peter about the maiden Fevronia

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The young man quickly returned to his prince and told him everything in detail that he had seen and heard. The noble Prince Peter said: “Take me to where that girl is.”

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Prince Peter is brought to the house of the maiden Fevronia, who agrees to heal him if he becomes her husband.

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And they brought him to the house where the girl was. And the prince sent his youths to her, saying: “Tell me, girl, who wants to heal me? Let him heal me and take me a lot of wealth.” She, without embarrassment, answered: “I want to heal him, but I don’t demand wealth from him. I have this word for him: if I am not his wife, there is no need for me to heal him.”

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Prince Peter sends to Fevronia to say he agrees

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And when the man came, he told his prince what the girl had said. Prince Peter neglected her words, thinking: “How can I, being a prince, take the daughter of a tree-dweller as my wife?!” And, sending to her, he said: “Tell her: what kind of medicine is this?! But let him heal! If she heals me, I’ll take her as my wife.”

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Fevronia hands over a vessel with a drug and explains how to get healing

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Those who came conveyed those words to her. She, taking a small vessel, scooped up sourdough (leaf leaven) of her own, blew on it and said: “Establish a bath for your prince, and let him anoint his body with it, where there are scabs and ulcers, and let him leave one scab unanointed - and he will be healthy.” !

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Prince Peter, testing the wisdom of Fevronia, sends her a bunch of flax so that she can make a shirt, ports and ubrusets from it

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And they brought this ointment to the prince. And he ordered to establish a bathhouse. He wanted to test the girl’s answers to see if she was as wise as he had heard about her speeches from his youth. He sent her with one of his servants one piece of flax, saying: “This girl wants to be my wife for wisdom’s sake. If Mudra, then let him make me a shirt, and ports, and an ubrusets (belt or towel) from this flax while I’m in the bathhouse.”

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Virgin Fevronia, having received the flax, commands the servant to remove the log from the stove, chop off the “ducklings” and give it to Prince Peter so that he can make a loom from it

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The servant brought her a load of flax and handed it to her, and said the prince’s word. She told the servant: “Climb onto our stove and, taking the log from the ridge (the crossbar above the stove), bring it here.” He, having listened to her, brought some logs. She, having measured it with a span (an ancient Russian measure of length: the distance between the ends of the spread thumb and index fingers; 1 span = 17.78 cm), said: “Chop this from this log.” He cut it off. She told him: “Take this duck (cut) of log, and go give your prince from me, and tell him: while I comb this bunch, let your prince prepare for me from this duck a machine and all the equipment on which its cloth will be woven."

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Prince Peter sends to tell Fevronia about the impossibility of fulfilling her task. Fevronia answers the prince in kind

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The servant brought the prince some duck logs and retold the girl’s words. The prince said: “Go and tell the girl that it is impossible to make this device from such a small piece of wood in such a short time!” The servant arrived and gave her the prince’s speech. The girl answered: “Is it possible for an adult man to make a shirt, portas, and ubrusets from one bunch of flax in a short time, while he is in the bathhouse?” The servant left and told everything to the prince. The prince was amazed at her answer.

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Prince Peter is anointed in the bathhouse with a potion sent by Fevronia

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After some time, Prince Peter went to the bathhouse to wash and, at the girl’s command, anointed his sores and scabs with ointment. And one scab was left unanointed at the command of the maiden. Coming out of the bathhouse, I didn’t feel any illness. The next morning I saw the whole body healthy and smooth, except for one scab, which was not anointed at the command of the maiden. And he marveled at the quick healing.

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The healed Prince Peter sends Fevronia gifts, which she does not accept.

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But he did not want to take her as his wife because of her origin and sent her gifts. She didn't accept them.

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Prince Peter leaves for Murom and falls ill again

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Prince Peter went to his homeland, the city of Murom, healthy. There was a single scab on him that was not anointed with the maiden command. And from that scab, many scabs began to spread throughout his body from the first day on which he went to his homeland. And he became again all cut off with many scabs and ulcers, as before.

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Prince Peter returns to Fevronia and again asks for healing, giving his word that he will take her as his wife

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And again the prince returned to the girl for the tested healing. And when he arrived at her house, he sent to her with shame, asking for healing. She, not holding any anger, said: “If he becomes my husband, he will be healed.” He gave her a firm word that he had the intention of taking her as his wife. She again, as before, gave him the same drug that was previously written about.

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The healed Prince Peter takes Fevronia to Murom, where they sit at a feast with Prince Paul and his wife

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He, soon receiving healing, took her as his wife. This is how Fevronia became a princess. They came to their homeland, the city of Murom, and lived there in all piety, not departing from God’s commandments in any way.

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Repose of Prince Paul

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After a short time, the previously mentioned Prince Paul departed from this life. The noble Prince Peter, after his brother, becomes the sole autocrat of his city.

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The boyar accuses Princess Fevronia of disorderly behavior at meals. Prince Peter tests her: the miracle of turning bread crumbs into smoking incense occurs

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One day, one of her servants came to the blessed Prince Peter to slander her like this: “From each of her meals,” he said, “she comes out disorderly: before getting up, she collects crumbs in her hand, as if she were hungry.” The noble Prince Peter, wanting to test her, ordered her to dine with him at the same table. And as soon as dinner was over, she, as usual, collected her crumbs from the table into her hand. Prince Peter grabbed her hand and, opening it, saw fragrant incense and incense. And from that day on I stopped testing her in anything.

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The boyars complain to Prince Peter about Fevronia, since their wives do not want her to dominate them

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The boyars did not love his princess Fevronia for the sake of their wives, since she was not a princess by birth, but God glorified her good for the sake of her life.

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At the feast, the boyars offer Princess Fevronia to leave the Murom borders. In exchange for the proposed ransom, she chooses her husband

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After a considerable time, his boyars came to the prince in rage, saying: “We all want, prince, to serve you righteously and have you as autocrat, but we don’t want Princess Fevronia to dominate our wives. If you want to be an autocrat, let you have another princess. Fevronia, having taken enough wealth for herself, let her go wherever she wants!” Blessed Peter, it was his custom not to fly into rage over anything, answered with humility: “Turn to Fevronia, and we’ll listen to what he says.”

They, frantic and filled with shamelessness, decided to throw a feast. And they created it. And when they were cheerful, they began to raise their shameless voices, like barking dogs, robbing the saint of God’s gift, with which God promised not to separate her even after death. And they said: “Madam Princess Fevronia! The whole city and the boyars are telling you: give us what we ask of you!” She answered: “Take what you ask!” They said with one mouth: “We, madam, all want Prince Peter to rule over us. Our wives do not want you to dominate them. Having taken enough wealth for yourself, go wherever you want!” She answered: “I promised you: whatever you ask, you will receive. I tell you now: give me what I ask of you.” They, the evil ones, were happy, not knowing the future, and promised with an oath: “Whatever you say, you will immediately take it without any contradiction.” She said: “I ask for nothing else, only for my wife, Prince Peter!” They answered: “If he wants to, we won’t object to you.” The enemy filled them with thoughts that if Peter was not Prince, they would appoint someone else as autocrat, and each of the boyars kept in his mind that he himself wanted to be an autocrat.

Blessed Prince Peter did not love temporary autocracy above God’s commandments, but walking according to His commandments, he adhered to them, just as the God-voiced Matthew preaches in his gospel. It is said that if anyone lets his wife go, except for the word of adultery, and marries another, he himself commits adultery. This blessed prince acted according to the Gospel: he considered his autocracy to be nothing, so as not to violate the commandments of God.

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Princess Fevronia, who went into exile, denounces a certain person of lustful thoughts

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They, the evil boyars, gave Peter and Fevronia ships on the river. There was a river under the city called the Oka. They sailed down the river in ships. There was a certain person on the ship of the blessed princess Fevronia; and his wife was on the same ship. That man, having received a thought from the evil demon, looked at the saint with a thought. She, realizing his evil thoughts, quickly denounced him, telling him: “Draw water from the river on this side of the ship.” He got it. And she ordered him to drink. He drank. She said again: “Draw up water from the other side of this vessel.” He got it. And she ordered him to drink again. He drank. She asked: “Is this water the same or is one sweeter than the other?” He answered: “The water is the same, lady.” Then she said: “The female nature is also the same. Why, having left your wife, are you thinking about someone else’s?” That man, realizing that she had the gift of insight, was afraid to think like that in the future.

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The grief of Prince Peter about the abandoned fatherland and the miracle about the felled trees blessed by Fevronia, which grew and blossomed overnight

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As evening approached, they began to settle down on the shore. Blessed Prince Peter began to think about what would happen next, since he, by his own will, lost his autocracy. The wonderful Fevronia told him: “Do not grieve, prince, the merciful God, Creator and Provider of everything, will not leave us in poverty!”

On that shore they prepared food for blessed Prince Peter for dinner. And the cook planted small trees to hang the cauldrons on. After dinner, the holy princess Fevronia, who was walking along the shore and saw those trees, blessed them, saying: “May they be great trees in the morning, having branches and foliage.” And so it came true: when they got up the next morning, they found those trees to be large trees with branches and foliage.

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Civil strife in Murom

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Many nobles in the city died from the sword. Each of them wanted to rule. And they destroyed themselves.

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The boyars call on Peter and Fevronia to return to reign

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And when people already wanted to sweep their property onto ships from the shore, nobles from the city of Murom came, saying: “Lord prince, from all the nobles and from the whole city we came to you, so that you will not leave us orphans, but return to your fatherland. Many nobles in the city died from the sword. Each of them wanted to rule, and they destroyed themselves. And those who survived, together with all the people, pray to you, saying: Lord, prince, even if we angered you and irritated you, not wanting Princess Fevronia to rule over our wives, now, with all our houses, we are your slaves, and we want you, and we love and pray: do not leave us, your servants!”

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The return of Peter and Fevronia to Murom and their pious reign

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Blessed Prince Peter and blessed Princess Fevronia returned to their city. And they reigned in that city, walking in all the commandments and justifications of the Lord, without blemish, remaining in unceasing prayers and mercy towards all people under authority, like a child-loving father and mother; Having the same love for everyone, they did not love pride, nor theft, nor did they save perishable wealth, but grew rich in God. They were true shepherds of their city, and not mercenaries. They ruled the city with truth and meekness, and not with rage. They welcomed strangers, fed the hungry, clothed the naked, and delivered the poor from misfortunes.

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Peter and Fevronia order to make a single coffin for themselves

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When their pious repose had arrived, they begged God that their repose would occur in one hour. And they left the covenant, so that both would be laid in one coffin. And they ordered to build themselves two coffins in one stone, having only one partition between them.

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Monastic tonsure of Peter and Fevronia

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At the same time, they themselves put on monastic robes. And blessed Prince Peter was named David in the monastic rank, while the Monk Fevronia was named Euphrosyne in the monastic rank.

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Peter-David sends to tell Fevronia-Euphrosyne, who embroiders the air, that he is dying. She asks him to wait until she finishes work.

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At that time, the Venerable and Blessed Fevronia, named Euphrosyne, for the Church of the Most Pure Cathedral Church, with her own hands embroidered the air (plate for the paten or chalice), on which the faces of saints were depicted. The venerable and blessed prince Peter, named David, sent to her, saying: “O sister Euphrosyne, I already want to leave the body, but I’m waiting for you, so that we can leave together. She answered: “Wait, sir, until I get air for the holy church.”

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Peter-David again sends to Fevronia-Euphrosinia to say that he can’t wait any longer.

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He sent to her a second time, saying: “I won’t wait long for you.” And he also sent it for the third time, saying: “I already want to repose and I’m no longer waiting for you!” She embroidered the last air patterns of that saint, but she has not yet embroidered one saint’s robe; Having sewn her face, she stopped, and stuck her needle into the air, and wrapped it with the thread with which she was sewing. And she sent word to blessed Peter, named David, about their repose together.

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Simultaneous death of Peter and Fevronia

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And, having prayed, they gave up their holy souls into the hands of God on the 25th day of the month of June.

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Position of the deceased Peter and Fevronia in separate coffins

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After their repose, people wanted Blessed Prince Peter to be laid down inside the city, at the cathedral church of the Most Pure Mother of God, while Fevronia - outside the city, in a convent, at the Church of the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross, saying that in the monastic image of indwelling saints it is impossible put in one coffin.

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Placing coffins with the bodies of Peter and Fevronia in different churches

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And they set up separate coffins for them and put their bodies in them: St. Peter, named David, put the body in a separate coffin and placed it inside the city in the Church of the Holy Mother of God until the morning, while St. Fevronia, named Euphrosyne, put the body in a separate coffin and placed it outside the city , in the Church of the Exaltation of the Honest and Life-Giving Cross. The common coffin, which they themselves ordered to be hewn out in one stone, remained empty in the same church of the Most Pure Cathedral Church, which is inside the city.

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Finding the bodies of Peter and Fevronia in a single coffin

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The next morning, when people got up, they found their separate coffins empty, the ones in which they had been placed. Their holy bodies were found inside the city, in the cathedral church of the Most Pure Mother of God, in a single tomb, which they ordered themselves to create.

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Distribution of the bodies of Peter and Fevronia into separate coffins.

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Foolish people, who were worried about them both during their lifetime and after their honest death, again transferred their bodies into separate coffins and carried them away again.

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Secondary discovery of the bodies of Saints Peter and Fevronia in a single tomb. Divine services and healings at their relics

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And again the next morning they found the saints in a single tomb. And after that they no longer dared to touch their holy bodies and laid them in a single coffin, in which they themselves commanded, at the cathedral church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary inside the city, in the coffin that God gave for enlightenment and salvation to that city. And those who with faith resort to the shrine of their relics receive infinite healing.

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The relics of the famous Peter and Fevronia in a single coffin. Their prayer to the Lord for the city of Murom and all Christians

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We, according to our strength, will add praise to them.

Rejoice , Peter, for you have been given by God the power to kill the flying fierce serpent! Rejoice, Fevronia, for in the female head of holy men you had wisdom! Rejoice, Peter, for while he bore scabs and sores on his body, he valiantly endured sorrow! Rejoice, Fevronia, for from God you had the gift in your virgin youth to heal ailments! Rejoice, glorious Peter, for for the sake of God he voluntarily abandoned the commandments of autocracy, so as not to leave his wife! Rejoice, wondrous Fevronia, for with your favor in one night small trees grew great and raised branches and foliage! Rejoice, honest heads, for in your power you lived in humility, prayers, and alms without pride, therefore Christ gave you grace, so that even after death your bodies lie inseparably in the grave, but in spirit you stand before the Lord Christ! Rejoice, reverend and blessed ones, for even after death you invisibly grant healing to those who come to you with faith!

But we pray to you, O blessed spouses, pray for us, who create your memory with faith!

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Chapter 2

Peter hears rumors that there are doctors practicing on Ryazan land who can handle any illness. He gets ready to hit the road and sets off on a long journey. Peter's servant goes around the entire area in search of the right specialist and, quite by chance, wanders into the village of Laskovo, where he meets the local healer Fevronya. The girl was weaving cloth and did not immediately pay attention to the uninvited guest. After explaining the situation with the prince, the servant asks for help.

The girl agrees, but sets a condition for the prince. She will cure him, but he must marry her. Peter did not argue, agreeing to marry a commoner. Although in my heart I didn’t take the girl’s words seriously. How can he marry the dart frog's daughter. Everyone will laugh at him. The healing ointment turned out to be ordinary bread sourdough. Following the girl’s recommendations, he should lubricate all the ulcers with her and leave only one untouched.

Having gone to the bathhouse before bed and treated the ulcers, Peter wakes up in the morning completely healthy. Not a single ulcer remained on the body, except for the one that Fevronya asked not to touch.

Happy Peter leaves the village, forgetting about his promise to marry the one who saved him. To appease his savior, the prince gives the girl gifts, but she does not accept them. Fevronya was too proud.

The next day, sores began to form on the body again from the remaining ulcer. The body itched and bled. There was nothing to do, the prince had to return in shame to the one he had deceived. The girl didn't hold a grudge against him. She reminded him again of his promise to her. The prince marries the beautiful Fevronya and takes her to Murom.

Akathist to the Holy Blessed Prince Peter and Princess Fevronia, Murom Wonderworkers

Kontakion 1.

Chosen miracle workers and great saints of the Lord, intercessors of the city of Murom and dreams of prayer for our souls, holy blessings to Prince Peter and Princess Fevronia! Bringing praise to you, we earnestly pray: for you who have boldness in the Lord, through your intercession free us from all troubles, and have made us heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven Come, let us joyfully call you:

Rejoice, holy and glorious wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia.

Ikos 1.

The angels of earth and the people of heaven have truly appeared, blessed Peter and Fevronia, from your youth you have had a clear conscience towards God, and have lived together in goodness in piety and purity, Having left as an example of imitation your life pleasing to God, which has been miraculous and illuminated by your miracles, we call you voices of praise:

Rejoice, you who have loved Christ since your youth and have labored for Him with all your heart; Rejoice, guardians of chastity and guardians of mental and physical purity.

Rejoice, having prepared your soul and body on earth in the abode of the Holy Spirit; Rejoice, being filled with the wisdom and intelligence of the Divine.

Rejoice, as in the flesh, as without flesh, live together; Rejoice, for an honor equal to the angels is worthy to be received.

Rejoice, for you stand before the Trinity from earth to Heaven and there with the Angels; Rejoice, for with the disembodied faces you sing the thrice-holy hymn to Her.

Rejoice, glorification of the Lord in Heaven and on earth; Rejoice, having found an eternal all-bright resting place.

Rejoice, rich treasure of the city of Murom; Rejoice, source of inexhaustible miracles.

Rejoice, holy and glorious wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia.

Kontakion 2.

Seeing Prince Peter in his recurring illness, a sign of God’s wrath, for not fulfilling his vow, he took the wise Fevronia as his wife, trying to fulfill this and marrying her with a sconce. who is legal. Both in marriage, live chastely and pleasingly to God, blessed ones, having one mind in two bodies, even to please God; Therefore, today you and the angels sing to Him a song: Alleluia.

Ikos 2.

With a mind enlightened by God and gifted from above, saints Peter and Fevronia, love and mercy for the poor and orphans, the offended and helpless, faster intercessors, and many other virtues You will adorn your earthly reign. For this reason we cry out to you:

Rejoice, blessed and blessed ones, who have lived in love of God and preserved piety; Rejoice, full of mercy and compassion.

Rejoice, quick helper to the helpless; Rejoice, comforters of the sad.

Rejoice, feeders of orphans and widows; Rejoice, representatives of those in trouble.

Rejoice, healers of mental and physical illnesses; Rejoice, joyful visitors of sorrowful hearts.

Rejoice, you have shown your love for God and your love for your neighbors; Rejoice, your earthly reign is righteous and pleasing to God.

Rejoice, praise to the Orthodox princes and establishment of the city of Murom; Rejoice, all lands of the Russian intercession.

Rejoice, holy and glorious wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia.

Kontakion 3.

We strengthen you with the power of God’s grace, blessed Prince Peter, you would rather leave the city of your fatherland and the reign of Murom, rather than divorce the wise Fevronia at the insistence of the proud yours. For this reason, for God’s sake, glorify you and create, so that the Bolyars, who were returned together with your wife, may once again be established on the throne of the reign of Murom, and we are an example of keeping the law of Bo You show this by your deeds, so that imitating you in the holiness of keeping the wedding covenant, we sing to the hero Christ: Alleluia.

Ikos 3.

Having care for your people, blessed Peter and Fevronia, vigilantly strive for their good, planting piety, eradicating wickedness and pacifying enmity. Moreover, the Lord, seeing such feats of yours, blessed the land of Murom with fruitfulness and deep peace to your gift of reign, striving for your people to sing with gratitude to you. tse:

Rejoice, saints of God, in the lives of the great saints; Rejoice, ruler of good fortune, people of Murom who have led you to salvation.

Rejoice, guardians of Christian piety; Rejoice, eradicators of disorder, strife and all wickedness.

Rejoice, Christian spouses, teachers of pious living; Rejoice, chastity and abstinence in marriage are most excellent.

Rejoice, zealots of the righteous court; Rejoice, zealots of non-profit and selflessness.

Rejoice, holy kings Constantine and Helen, acquisitors of virtues; Rejoice, Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir and Blessed Princess Olga are worthy successors.

Rejoice, most honorable and good combination, shining with rays of miracles; Rejoice, O bright lamp of your fatherland.

Rejoice, holy and glorious wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia.

Kontakion 4.

The storm of sorrows and misfortunes raised by the malice of this world, do not weaken your strong love for God, Peter and Blessed Fevronia, but above all teach you to skillfully repel the kindled fires I am the arrows of the temptations of the devil: for you, having wrapped yourself in the armor of the faith of Christ, in the deep world above the rebellious abyss of everyday life sea, and reach the quiet harbor of salvation, bring us to it with your prayers, and together with you we will sing to God: Alleluia.

Ikos 4.

Having heard your pious life near and far, blessed Peter and Fevronia, I glorified the lover of mankind, God, who has given you strength for all good deeds, like the bright rays May you shine in your fatherland, where to this day your names are honorable, and your exploits are glorified with these praises:

Rejoice, thou most luminous two, united by God; Rejoice in the light of your pious life, like God’s bright lights shining forth.

Rejoice, having acquired the Kingdom of Heaven through alms and prayers; Rejoice, having achieved eternal bliss through humility and forgiveness.

Rejoice, for your reward is abundant in Heaven; Rejoice, for your joy is eternal in the light of the saints.

Rejoice, beloved servants of Christ; Rejoice, friends of all the saints.

Rejoice, unpretentious stars, who faithfully show the path of a married life pleasing to God; Rejoice, dew-bearing clouds, driving away the heat of passions and wickedness.

Rejoice, givers of God's mercies and bounty to us; Rejoice, integral adornment of your fatherland. Rejoice, holy and glorious wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia.

Kontakion 5.

God-enlightened luminaries of piety and wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia, who loved God with all their souls, kept all His commandments; Moreover, Christ, like the bright sun and moon, showed you, blessed ones, many miracles with the dawn illuminating the region of Murom and the entire Russian country, glorifying the saints with incorruption and Your multi-healing powers, which fall to them, we bless you according to our inheritance and sing with gratitude to the wondrous thing in our saints To God: Alleluia.

Ikos 5.

Having seen your righteous life and your generosity, the people of the world glorified you, their merciful rulers, blessed Peter and Fevronia, you loved true humility and the praise of man Be careless, remain proud without injury, and thereby show us an image of the highest humility, learning from it, crying out with love this for you:

Rejoice, you who counted the glory of man for nothing; Rejoice, you who have earnestly loved the humility of Christ.

Rejoice, faithful doers of the commandments of the Lord; Rejoice, followers of the teachings of the Gospel.

Rejoice, servant of the Most High God, having done His will; Rejoice, having kept the faith of Christ to the end.

Rejoice, teachers of piety to people named after Christ; Rejoice, you who want to live a life pleasing to God and the wisdom of your teacher.

Rejoice, for through your prayers you save us from all troubles; Rejoice, you who fulfill all our good requests.

Rejoice, the grace of a physician among those who suffer; Rejoice, patron of the mercy of the country of Murom.

Rejoice, holy and glorious wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia.

Kontakion 6.

Preachers of the Orthodox faith and zealots of piety, not only in words, but in all their lives, quickly in the city of Murom, praise to Peter and Fevronia; Moreover, the Holy Church worthily honors your exploits and labors, in which you labored for the glory of the Most High God, constantly singing to Him: Alleluia.

Ikos 6.

Shine in the city of Murom with the light of your virtuous life, like the stars of God, the blessed Peter and Fevronia, and your memory in it with praises to this day, as even after your death begin to illuminate us, performing many miracles, and thereby the bright dawn of immortality for us from the relics your shining ones, may we bless you with the blessings of the chin:

Rejoice, guardians of the order and statutes of the holy Church; Rejoice, reverent worshipers of the servants of the altar of the Lord.

Rejoice, zealots of the good customs and traditions of the patristic fathers; Rejoice, you eradicator of evil customs and pagan wisdom.

Rejoice, judgments that have been impartial to your people are not partial; Rejoice, having united your judgments with mercy.

Rejoice, meek and gentle followers of Christ; Rejoice, you who have overcome evil with good.

Rejoice, incorruptible fragrant flowers; Rejoice, unflickering rays of immortality.

Rejoice, you who shine with the greatness of miracles on earth; Rejoice, angels from Heaven glorifying God.

Rejoice, holy and glorious wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia.

Kontakion 7.

Although the philanthropic Lord will appear in your life, Peter and Fevronia, as an example of edification not only for worldly people, but also for monastic faces, inspire you in your old age to leave the glory of the reign earthly, and to accept the monastic image, in it labored well through fasting, vigil and prayer, chanting continually to the Triune God the angelic song: Alleluia.

Ikos 7.

You have received the new grace of God in monastic tonsure, veneration, with new deeds you will adorn your equal life with the angels, and thus bring the fruit of the perfection of the spiritual to Christ, and the reward you are worthy to receive the like from Him. Remembering such zeal for your spiritual deeds, we glorify you with these worthy praises:

Rejoice, for for the love of the Lord, you have abandoned the reign and glory of this world; Rejoice, for you have diligently accepted the monastic life of equal angels.

Rejoice, ascetic of perfect patience; Rejoice, blessed money-grubbers free from poverty.

Rejoice, before your death all passions were mortified by abstinence; Rejoice, having received the holy schema into the armor of salvation.

Rejoice, you who changed the prince’s scarlet garment for a monastic hair shirt; Rejoice, by fasting, vigil and unceasing prayers, you have pleased God well.

Rejoice, seekers of God-loving solitude; Rejoice, lovers of saving silence.

Rejoice, watered with tears of prayer; Rejoice, in the host of your kind glorified in Heaven.

Rejoice, holy and glorious wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia.

Kontakion 8.

It was a strange and wondrous miracle, when you, Blessed Peter, at the end of your life, petitions for the sake of your wife, Saint Fevronia, you slowed down your exodus until she died the shroud of the church, with which we sewed and together with you came to the end of death, and thus inseparability in life, inseparability and in death he appeared, and on one day and hour he gave up his holy soul in the hand of God, calling everlastingly the living and the dead to the possessing Lord God: Hallelu ́ia.

Ikos 8.

I marveled at everything and praised the wondrousness of God in His saints, when your holy body, laid in different tombs, was miraculously found lying in a common tomb, which was prepared Vast yourself, Reverend, in the cathedral church of the city of Murom, where to this day you rest inseparably, miracle-working saints, inexhaustibly exuding healing to all who come running to you in faith and call:

Rejoice, your union of love will be faithfully preserved to the grave and beyond the grave; Rejoice, not only in life, but also in death, in the Lord of unity.

Rejoice, in your pious married life imitating the strength of your helpers; Rejoice, you who warm us with the warmth of your love.

Rejoice, having passed from temporary death to eternal life; Rejoice, from the Lord incorruptibility and miracles of glorification.

Rejoice, for your memory is with praise and your dormition is with the saints; Rejoice, for your names are honorable and blessed in your fatherland.

Rejoice, Russian countries, fertile fertilizer; Rejoice, indestructible fence of the city of Murom.

Rejoice, O representatives of heaven who love and honor you; Rejoice, you who ever ask us from the Lord for the gifts of His goodness.

Rejoice, holy and glorious wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia.

Kontakion 9.

All the angels and holy faces rejoiced with great joy, when your holy souls reached the eternal in the abodes of the heavenly villages, and the Creator Himself of the Angels and the Most Holy Saints x Christ the King of Glory, crowned you with immortality and granted you the grace to pray to Him with boldness for many things for all those who seek your intercession, Do not deprive us sinners of it either, Peter and Fevronia, worthy of praise, who humbly sing a song of praise to God who glorified you: Alleluia.

Ikos 9.

Human wisdom does not suffice for the worthy glorification of your life, holy wonderworkers Peter and Fevronius; Who will confess all your prayers and sorrows, illnesses and labors? who will count all your tears and sighs to God? Moreover, we strive for love for you and dare to sing to you these small and simple praises:

Rejoice, chosen vessels of the grace of the Holy Spirit; Rejoice, everlasting blessings to us intercessors.

Rejoice, God-fearing spouses confirmed in piety; Rejoice, violators of marital chastity and harmony are a terrible reproof.

Rejoice, the wrath of God, righteously moving towards us, quenching your prayers; Rejoice, you who continually pray to the Lord for the peace of the whole world.

Rejoice, fortresses, visible and invisible, against our enemies; Rejoice, angelic people.

Rejoice, joint heirs of the venerable and righteous; Rejoice, faithful saint of the Most Holy Trinity.

Rejoice, blessed inhabitants of the mountain city of Heavenly Jerusalem; Rejoice, you who triumph with the saints in the tabernacles of paradise.

Rejoice, holy and glorious wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia.

Kontakion 10.

Eternal salvation has been inherited by the blessed Peter and Fevronia, with your souls in the heavenly abodes inseparably remaining in God, and with your holy relics in the temple of God resting incorruptibly together, and You exude abundant healing, so that your miracles are graciously illuminated, we cry out in praise to the Supreme Creator of miracles, God: Alleluia.

Ikos 10.

The wall of intercession, your favorable prayers to God, have been found, holy wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia, we diligently send thanks to the Heavenly Father for all His good deeds, to all of you Abundantly revealed to you, our representative, we bring the chant:

Rejoice, all-bright heir of the Kingdom of Christ; Rejoice, interlocutor of angelic faces.

Rejoice, you who contemplate God in more unapproachable glory; Rejoice, Trisian Deity of the Mystery.

Rejoice, you who reign forever with the saints in Heaven; Rejoice, you who mercifully reach from the heights of the earth to those born on earth.

Rejoice, smell the fragrance of heavenly vegetation; Rejoice, cypress trees of the miracle-working paradise of Jesus.

Rejoice, givers of envy and free healing; Rejoice, performers of many praiseworthy miracles.

Rejoice, you who pour out many blessings upon us; Rejoice, the mercy of your compassion encompassing everyone.

Rejoice, holy and glorious wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia.

Kontakion 11.

We bring prayer songs to you, saints of God Petra and Fevronia, and with love we fall before the race of saints and multi-healing relics of yours, glorifying your life pleasing to God and your many deeds gi. We earnestly pray to you, holy wonderworkers, help us to imitate your virtues, so that we may sing in a godly manner to our Creator: Alleluia.

Ikos 11.

The cathedral church of the city of Murom was filled with heavenly light, when with the favor of God the holy relics of your Peter and Fevronia were found safe and fragrant in it, and from the depths of the earth Oh, like a precious treasure, they were worn out, where they rest to this day, abundant healing flowing to the sick and sick . For this reason we cry out to you with song:

Rejoice, imperishable gold, found in the depths of the earth; Rejoice, beads that shine and gracefully enlighten people.

Rejoice, praise to the holy Orthodox Church; Rejoice, denunciation of heresies and schisms.

Rejoice, light up your minds, enlightened by the dawn of the Holy Spirit; Rejoice, peace filled with the fragrance of Christ.

Rejoice, having been clothed in the robe of grace-filled incorruptibility; Rejoice, girded with the power of many miracles.

Rejoice, for your honest physician’s cancer has become a human disease; Rejoice, for from her everyone who comes with faith receives healing gifts.

Rejoice, the brightness of your miracles illuminating the darkness of our souls; Rejoice, you who show us the dawn of the common resurrection through the incorruption of your holy relics.

Rejoice, holy and glorious wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia.

Kontakion 12.

Having known the grace from above given to you, holy wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia, with reverence and love we worship your incorruptible and multi-healing relics and from them we accept healing for those who are ill, for comfort, gracious help in troubles: therefore, we glorify you according to your heritage, heavenly representatives and our intercessors, singing praises and thanksgiving to the Lord God who has benevolent us: Alleluia.

Ikos 12.

Singing your many and glorious miracles, great saints of God Petra and Fevronia, we bless you as healers, comforters and helpers from the Lord given to us, and we prayerfully celebrate the holy I cherish your memory, from the love of my heart I sing to you with gratitude and praise:

Rejoice, you who rest incorruptibly in the fragrance of the holy thing; Rejoice, you who come to the race with faith and sanctify your relics with grace.

Rejoice, you who call in prayerfully honest names your speedy hearers; Rejoice, you who trust in God as a wonderful helper.

Rejoice, you who have known the propitiators of the Heavenly King; Rejoice, our mighty protectors from invisible enemies.

Rejoice, you who have appeared as intercessors of salvation to all; Rejoice, persistent guardians of the city of Murom.

Rejoice, wonderful kindness of the Russian princes; Rejoice, patrons of your fatherland given by God.

Rejoice, healing grace of our bodies; Rejoice for our souls’ zeal for the Lord in prayer.

Rejoice, holy and glorious wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia.

Kontakion 13.

About the holiness and glory of the wonderworkers, the blessing of Prince Peter and Princess Fevronia! Mercifully accept this laudatory song from us who are unworthy in tenderness, which is brought to you, and by your intercession from the Lord ask us for confirmation in faith and good deeds, and deliverance from everything x sorrows and illnesses, temporary and eternal, may we be honored to sing together with you and all the saints in the Kingdom of Heaven To the Most Holy Trinity, an eternal song of praise: Alleluia.

This kontakion is read three times, then ikos 1st and kontakion 1st.

Ikos 1.

The angels of earth and the people of heaven have truly appeared, blessed Peter and Fevronia, from your youth you have had a clear conscience towards God, and have lived together in goodness in piety and purity, Having left as an example of imitation your life pleasing to God, which has been miraculous and illuminated by your miracles, we call you voices of praise:

Rejoice, you who have loved Christ since your youth and have labored for Him with all your heart; Rejoice, guardians of chastity and guardians of mental and physical purity.

Rejoice, having prepared your soul and body on earth in the abode of the Holy Spirit; Rejoice, being filled with the wisdom and intelligence of the Divine.

Rejoice, as in the flesh, as without flesh, live together; Rejoice, for an honor equal to the angels is worthy to be received.

Rejoice, for you stand before the Trinity from earth to Heaven and there with the Angels; Rejoice, for with the disembodied faces you sing the thrice-holy hymn to Her.

Rejoice, glorification of the Lord in Heaven and on earth; Rejoice, having found an eternal all-bright resting place.

Rejoice, rich treasure of the city of Murom; Rejoice, source of inexhaustible miracles.

Rejoice, holy and glorious wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia.

Kontakion 1.

Chosen miracle workers and great saints of the Lord, intercessors of the city of Murom and dreams of prayer for our souls, holy blessings to Prince Peter and Princess Fevronia! Bringing praise to you, we earnestly pray: for you who have boldness in the Lord, through your intercession free us from all troubles, and have made us heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven Come, let us joyfully call you:

Rejoice, holy and glorious wonderworkers Peter and Fevronia.

First prayer.

About the great saints of God and the wonderful miracle workers of the blessed Prince Peter and Princess Fevronia, representatives and guardians of the city of Murom, and about all of us, zeal for the Lord, prayer books! We resort to you and we pray to you with strong hope: bring your holy prayers to the Lord God for us sinners and ask us from His goodness for all that is necessary for souls and bodies. We: true faith, good hope, unfeigned love, unshakable piety, success in good deeds, peace of peace, fruitfulness of the earth, prosperity of the air, health of souls and bodies and eternal salvation. Intercede with the King of Heaven: may His faithful servants, in sorrow and sorrow cry out to Him day and night, hear the painful cry and may our lives be delivered from destruction. Ask the Church of Saints and the entire Russian state for peace, silence and prosperity, and for all of us a prosperous life and a good Christian death. Protect your fatherland, the city of Murom, and all Russian cities from all evil, and overshadow all the faithful people who come to you and worship with the relics with the grace of favorable prayers yours, and fulfill all their requests for good. Hey, holy wonderworkers! Do not despise our prayers offered to you with tenderness, but be a representative of the Lord for us and grant us, with your holy help, eternal salvation and the Kingdom of Heaven for us ice; Let us glorify the ineffable love for mankind of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, in the Trinity we worship God, forever and ever. Amen.

Second prayer.

O saints of God, blessed Prince Peter and Princess Fevronia, we resort to you and pray to you with strong hope: lift up your holy prayers for us sinners (names). God and ask His goodness for all that is good for our souls and bodies: faith truth, good hope, unfeigned love, unshakable piety, success in good deeds. And petition us from the Heavenly King for a prosperous life and a good Christian death. Hey, holy wonderworkers! Do not despise our prayers, but wake up for us in intercession to the Lord, and grant us, through your help, eternal salvation and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, so that we may praise the ineffable man love of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, in the Trinity we worship God forever and ever.

Detailed retelling

The work describes the romantic love story of the spouses, who later became saints for the people.

Blessed Peter was the second son of Muromsky Yuri Vladimirovich. Before his entry into government, he became seriously ill. He developed ulcers all over his body and was very unwell. The illness was sent to him by an evil spirit in the form of a serpent, which appeared to his brother’s wife and committed sinful acts with her. When she explained to Pavel, he asked her to find out how he would die. And the serpent said that his death would be from the sword that Peter would hold.

The elder brother, seeing Paul's suffering, found Agrikov's sword and destroyed the villain, but he took revenge on him by casting witchcraft on him, sprinkling him with his blood. And so, Peter, exhausted from his illnesses, was ready to die, but his relatives and servants did not give up and looked for doctors. Once, while he was sleeping, he received a vision that said that not far from Ryazan there lived a pious maiden who could heal him. Then he sent his servants there to find this peasant woman. The prince's close associate wandered for a long time in the Ryazan lands and... Finally, he arrived in Laskovo, where he discovered a beekeeper's house. Going there, he saw a girl weaving. From a conversation with her, the young man realized that she was very smart and had magical powers. He told a story about the misfortune that happened to his master, and Fevronia advised him to bring him to her place to listen to the sovereign’s sincere words. Hearing such news, Peter immediately set off on the road. Arriving at the place, he sent a servant to the home and promised to marry her legally if she cured him. The girl gave him a potion with which he was supposed to smear himself, but one place must be left clean.

The prince did so, but in order to test how pure her thoughts are, he instructs her to complete an interesting task. But, the girl, thanks to her intelligence, also orders one impossible thing to be done. Seeing how wise she is and surprised at his speedy recovery, the prince sends her gifts, but does not keep his word.

Peter returned to his city happy that he was cured so quickly. But, having failed to fulfill his promise, he begins to fall ill again. In shame, he returned to Fevronia, begging her to save him from his illness. She agreed on the condition that he marry her. This time he took her as his wife. That's how the girl became a princess.

Soon Paul died, and Peter took the throne. But the boyars did not like the fact that a simple peasant woman became a ruler. They began to say various nasty things about her to the prince. Fevronia’s husband once checked the accuracy of the words of his subjects and became convinced that she was impeccable. But the courtiers did not accept the fact that the commoner ruled them. And then they came to the prince and said that they did not want to see her at the palace. Peter could not be angry, and he did not tell his wife all this, but advised them to announce it themselves. Then the day came when his entourage told Fevronia at the table that they did not like her. The girl did not get angry and left, but not alone. The husband did not want to rule without her; he sailed on a ship that his servants had prepared along the river. Stopping for the night, Fevronia noticed the prince’s worried look and, having asked him about everything, reassured him that the Lord would not abandon them.

When they were preparing food, they cut branches from small bushes in order to light a fire. Fevronia uttered miraculous words, where she wished that huge trees would grow instead of the cut down places. This is what happened the next day.

In the morning, the couple began to get ready to set off, but suddenly they saw the ships on which his subjects arrived. They fell at his feet and began to beg him to return as ruler to the city of Murom. After he left, strife began in the city. Everyone wanted to take the place of the prince. There was famine and robbery. There was no unity among the troops, and the enemy began to overwhelm the state with raids. Peter and Fevronia could not refuse them, they returned home and began to rule according to conscience and honor. No one was insulted without the law, the poor were given gifts, and visitors were always welcome. When the time came to die, they wished to be buried together. Before their death, the couple took monastic vows and became monks. Peter was named David, and Fevronia received the name Euphrosyne. Death came to them when the nun was doing air embroidery for the temple. Her husband sent her a message saying that he was dying, but she asked him not to do this until he finished embroidering. Euphrosyne did not have time to finish her work, David could not wait any longer. So they left this world together at the same hour and day.

They were placed in different coffins, and a common tomb was placed near the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos. What a miracle it was for everyone when people discovered them in the morning in the same coffin. And no matter how they were separated, their bodies ended up together. They did not bother them anymore, and buried them in the tomb, as they wished during their lifetime. Since then, Peter and Fevronia have become an example of Christian marriage.

The story teaches love and fidelity in marriage, as well as warm and trusting relationships.

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