Daniel the Traveller, known also as Daniel the Pilgrim (Russian: Даниил Паломник), Daniel of Kyiv, or Abbot Daniel, was the first travel writer from the Kievan Rus.[1][2][3][4] He is known for travelling to the Holy Land in the aftermath of the First Crusade and his descriptions are important records of the region during that time. Some have identified him with a certain Daniel, bishop of Yuryev between 1115 and 1122.[5]
- ^ Anzovin, p. 201, item 3391: "The first Russian travel-writer was Daniel of Kiev, called in Russian Daniel Kievsky."
- ^ Merriam-Webster, p. 298 Daniel, the Pilgrim, also called Daniel of Kiev, (fl. 12th century). The earliest known Russian travel writer, whose account of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land is the earliest surviving record in Russian of such a trip.
- ^ Beazley, C. Raymond (1900). "The Oldest Monument of Russian Travel". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 14: 175–185. doi:10.2307/3678151. JSTOR 3678151. S2CID 162641720. "Daniel is the earliest Russian author, sacred or secular, who has described a journey from his country to any other part of the outer world."
- ^ The Pilgrimage of Abbot Daniel at A History of Russian Literature: 11th-13th century. Accessed September 2020.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Beazley, Charles Raymond (1911). "Daniel of Kiev". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 808.
