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The article deals with the way the Russian hagiographer Epiphanius the Wise conceptualised, composed and wrote his texts. As part of the preface to his Eulogy to Sergius of Radonezh, two fragments borrowed from the Slavic translation of the Sermon on the Annunciation to Joachim and Anna by John of Euboea were identified, which, along with borrowings from other sources, force us to reconsider the conclusion that Epiphanius the Wise’s method of writing was “free”. The creative process of this author included some preparatory work, in particular, the selection of literary sources and the exception of the necessary passages, as well as subsequent work on adapting the borrowed text using draft extracts, so it could not be free. The same fragments from the source of Epiphanius the Wise were included in the Tale of the Appearance of the Icon of the Mother of God of Kazan in the edition of Hermogenes of Kazan (1594). This fact can be explained either as the independent work of two authors and the coincidence of their literary tasks, literary tastes and literary techniques, or, less likely, as a conscious orientation of Hermogenes of Kazan on the work of Epiphanius the Wise that found its expression in the borrowed fragments.
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