Stefan the First-Crowned looked up to Psalms; they became his model for acquiring poetic skills – for developing poetic forms and types of expressions. Psalms were his model in other respects – for choosing the subject and notional focus of hagiography; historical truth included in the piece of art introduced the First-Crowned in the meaningful depths of psalms; in the philosophicalaesthetic understanding from which the need to arrange certain parts of hagiography text using quotations from psalms emerged.