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Illustrations (woodcuts) by master Ilya from "Patyrik Pechersky", printed in Kyiv, at the Lavra printing house in 1661.
"Of all our ancient written literature, no other work has remained in such constant memory, use and reading - not only monastic, but also secular - as "Pechersk Paterik". We can complain about our old intelligentsia, our literature and culture, that it did not put into the hands of our citizens a work more useful from a social and intellectual point of view than this echo of late Byzantine monasticism. But the fact remains: before the release of "Kobzar" it was the most popular work of our old literature."
Mykhailo Hrushevskyi