Значение маргинальных записей в монастырских рукописных материалах для истории культурыі средневековой Руси

By marginal entries we mean such entries which aren’t connected directly with a studying subject. At the same time, these records give some answers to the questions lying in an absolutely different area of absolutely different problems. This study reveals the importance of marginal records of the manuscripts of the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg. Scribes Gerasim Novgorodets, Dionysius Kruk and Trifon Grechanin might not be the most significant writers of Old Russian culture, however detection of several facts of their biographies can help to determine the facts and biographies of statesmen of the medieval Russia’s history. This article shows how the facts about a private life of the Old Russian monks and scribes collected as a result of “microresearch” of completely different documents could significantly influence dates of historical events as well as the biographies of persons who played an important role in the process of construction of the Russian state.