The life of St Peter of Moscow
He later withdrew to a solitary place and founded the Monastery of the Transfiguration there.
He was sent to Constantinople, where the patriarch consecrated him Metropolitan of Kiev in 1308, and he settled at Vladimir, where the metropolitans of Kiev then had their residence. In 1325 he moved his seat again, this time to Moscow, and there founded the Dormition Cathedral, giving the young city a spiritual center it had not had before. He reposed on the twenty-first of December, 1326, and was buried in the cathedral he had built, in a crypt he had prepared for himself. In the generations that followed he came to be honored as a particular protector of Moscow, and it became the custom for the city's rulers to swear their treaties and undertake their gravest business at his tomb.
