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Pimen was an Egyptian by birth. Taking two younger brothers, he labored in one of the desert monasteries. He was a contemporary of Paisius the Great (June 19) and John Kolov (November 9), and spent his life in work and prayer. Reposed during the reign of Theodosius the Younger. Blessed Simon, Bishop of Vladimir, wrote in his letter to Polycarp: “How can I worthily glorify the holy men who were in the honest Pechersk Monastery, for whom the pagans were baptized and became monks, and the Jews accepted the holy faith? But I also cannot keep silent about the blessed martyr and monk of this monastery, Kuksha, about whom everyone knows that he drove out demons, baptized the Vyatichi, brought down the rain, dried up the lake, performed many other miracles, and after many torments was killed with his disciple N. Icon. With them, the fasting Pimen died on the same day, having foreseen his departure to God two years before, prophesying many things, healing the sick. Standing in the middle of the church, he said loudly: our brother Kuksha was killed at dawn. Having said this, he reposed on the same day and hour as the saints” 231. Rev. Nestor wrote: “Vyatko and his family settled along the Oka and from him they were called Vyatichi,” and he, having described the pagan customs of the ancient Russian Slavs, says: “the Vyatichi are doing this even now,” that is, at the end of the 11th century 232. At the end of the 11th century, the Vyatichi still had their own princes - and they supported the paganism of their tribe 233. Kursk in the first half of the 11th century was already a Christian city, as can be seen from the life of St. Feodosia: but other settlements of the Vyatichi - Mtsensk, Bryansk, Kozelsk still adhered to paganism. And it was here that the reverend preached with his disciple. Kuksha; It was here that he completed his feat as a martyr at the very beginning of the 12th century, approx. 1110 Then the “deputies of the Chernigov prince” 234 appeared at the Vyatichi. - The pagan name Kuksha and the very title of the preacher of the Vyatichi give the right to believe that the Rev. Kuksha himself was a native of the country of the Vyatichi, and his holy love for his fellow tribesmen suffering from paganism called him to his long-suffering apostolic deed among the Vyatichi. - Relics of the Ven. Kuksha and Pimena rest in Anthony's Cave 235. “O Kuksha martyr; a rule for priests, an adornment for fasters and saints!” the Eastern monk says in delight, “You, like an apostle, died amid the preaching of the Gospel with your disciple; guide me with your prayers on the path of salvation" 236. Collection l. 11, 28. In 1147 Svyatoslav Olgovich came to Dedoslavl; and the governors of Vladimir and Izyaslav fled from the country of the Vyatichi, from Bryansk, Mtsensk and Blov. Svyatoslav “occupied the entire country of the Vyatichi to Bryansk and Vorobin, Podnesenie, Domagoshch and Mtsensk.” Research about the ancient region of the Vyatichi in Chten. total ist. 1862 book. 2. Description laurels pp. 107. 108. 292. 293. 289. Pimen the perspicacious and fasting man, who died on the same day as Kukshego, rests in the Anthony Cave (description of the laurels 107. 108), and Pimen the fasting man and abbot rests in the Theodosius Cave (description of the laurels 287. 294.132). Therefore, it is in vain to confuse (Christ. Reading 1855 1:288) the latter with the former, although they were almost contemporaries. Meletius Sirig in the canon of Pechersk saints, akathists. K. 1674