Theodore the Russian

Saint Theodore the Russian lived in the eleventh century and is a saint of the Russian Church. He was a monk of the Caves Monastery in Kyiv and died in the year 1098. He is commemorated on 11 August.

In the monastery he found some old treasures of the Varangians. When the ruler of Kyiv, Mstislav, asked him to reveal them, Theodore refused. Mstislav then tortured him and in the end killed him. He was buried in the cave of Anthony.

We have no other details of his life.