About the history of menology, created by Dimitry Rostovsky: main manuscripts

This article is concerned with an examination of the main manuscripts, which were part of Dimitry Rostovsky’s work about his famous Menology (1689–1705). The author lays special emphasis on two manuscripts (Library of the Academy of Sciences, P I. A № 32 and Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents, f. 382, № 420), studies Dimitry Rostovsky’s links on the previously unknown Latin sources and analyzes the Russian saints’ lives.