Background
Ignatius was born in the second half of the 14th century.
Ignatius was born in the second half of the 14th century.
Ignatius was the author of scriptures about the journey of Metropolitan Pimen to Constantinople in 1389-1393. According the orders of the Smolensk bishop Michael and the wish of Metropolitan Pimen Ignatius kept notes. Later, they were recycled and were placed in the Russian chronicles called "Pimenovo Walking to Constantinople." In the text, there are a lot of attention is paid to the description of the places adjacent to the Don in its middle reaches, it is told about Pimen's meeting with the Yelets prince at the mouth of the Voronezh River.