According to the ideal of a pious and humble prince, submissive to fate, Dmitry does not dare to go against the Tatars. He pronounces the wrong texts, the wrong prayers as in the chronicle legend. His prayers are imbued with humility and the spirit of courage and determination is not visible in them. Our story powerfully and persistently speaks of how stubbornly Dmitry rejected the fight with Mamai and tried to win the khan’s anger to mercy. Finally, the Grand Duke gathered his courage and went to a meeting with the Metropolitan. In this conversation, the author tests with the words of the Metropolitan the purity of the Grand Duke’s intentions in the war with Mamai and his rightness in relation to the Grand Dukes of Lithuania and Ryazan. The war with Mamai takes on a religious character. Khan wants to eradicate the Orthodox faith and ruin the churches. For the sacred fight there must be help from above. The instrument of God's help is Sergius, whose monastery the Grand Duke visits. On this view of the monastery, folk poetry agreed with our legend. In the epics of later times, it is explained where the heroism went: it went to the monastery cells. In one epic, Vladimir’s feast is reproduced: the eternally young prince is embarrassed by the news of the invasion of enemies. The black power found out - it found out that the heroes had gone to honest monasteries and surrounded the capital city of Kyiv. The prince calls the hunter for an unfaithful force, but the big hero is buried behind the middle one, the middle one 8a the younger one, but there is no answer from the younger one. In the end, after the third call, a hero appeared, but no one knows his strength, he
And stupid in mind and small in stature.
Where will this newcomer get his heroic strength from? from his wonderful white flammable stone the hero of old will not breathe on him: the stone has outlived its usefulness; he is mute and says nothing to the new time.
He turns his horse towards the monastery and the holy monastery, and towards those monastery cells;
Yes, at that time the mother of cheese the earth shook,
The old blueberry stuck in the ground.
The hero-monk blesses his young successor and sends him to look for the hero’s horse in an open field. The shaggy Burushka comes running to the heroic whistle. At the direction of the same old man, the hero’s harness and damask club, deeply buried in it, are dug out of the ground, and the new hero, fully armed, flies to meet the unfaithful force. And in the legend the schema warriors appear. The legend (and the life of Sergius) speaks in detail about how Sergius gave instructions to Iieresvet and Oslyaba. The first is given the feat of single combat with Telyabuga - and with Oslyab there was his young son Jacob Oslyabyatin, about whom he knows the chronicle legend and about whom the original songs of glory were mentioned, as can be seen from Zadoshtsina. Farewell to the Grand Duke, his prayers in various churches, visions before the battle, new prayers and finally a return to Moscow and a thanksgiving trip to Sergius, where St. the elder had already notified the brothers in advance about the happy outcome of the battle - everything