About the book: year / Arseny's main historical work - his memoirs about his stay in Russia - has come to us not in the author's version, but in the processing of his compatriots - Archimandrite Christopher and Archdeacon Neophytos, who arrived in Moscow in 1619. together with the Patriarch of Jerusalem to install Filaret Nikitich Romanov, who returned from Polish captivity, as Moscow Patriarch. The Greek monks accurately copied the author's text, carefully describing the events from the arrival of Archbishop Arseny Elassonsky in Moscow in 1588 until the destruction of Moscow in 1611 (this fragment is preceded by a small reference on the history of Russia, outlining in more detail the course of events from the beginning of the reign of Fyodor Ivanovich) . Further events before the accession to the throne of Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov in 1613 and the death of Ataman Zarutsky in 1614 are outlined by them schematically. Probably, Arseny's notes after 1611 were not fully processed by him. The manuscript containing these texts was discovered in the Greek Trebizond Sumeli monastery (in Asia Minor) only at the end of the 19th century. In addition to the memoirs itself, it contains, apparently compiled by the same editors, the life of Arseny of Elasson (as the locally revered saint Arseny was revered in Suzdal) and a poetic panegyric, where he is compared with Homer.