st. nikonts and remained in captivity, relying on the providence of god for the intercession of the most pure virgin mary. nikan spent 3 painful years in captivity; he was kept in shackles, tortured and beaten, and starved. and thirst, his jailer expected that the prisoner would pay them off, but the saint only endured and prayed, after a while he announced to the tormentors that christ would soon return him to kiev, deciding that nikon had decided to escape, the polovtsian cut the tendon in his legs and strengthened the guard, but through the prisoner disappeared for 3 days; his jailers said that they heard his voice, which exclaimed: “praise the lord, take it down.” st. nikon was transported in the blink of an eye, from there from the polovtsian chains, to the ancient temple of the most pure mother of god of pechersk, from the icons an exhausted face looks at us , the dried-up body of st. nikon stands upright, it is no coincidence that the people called him... st. nikon the dry. nikon's day i