In the Greek Church, the Trebnik together with the Service Book make up one book, called the Euchologion (Prayer Book).

Manuscripts of the VIII-IX centuries have survived to this day: the Euchologion of the Barberine Library and the Euchologion of the Sinai Monastery, discovered by Bishop Porphyrius (Uspensky) during his journey to the East.

Dmitrievsky A. The same. Pravosl. sobesed., 1883, pp.480 482.

The Trebnik was translated into Slavonic for the first time by Saints Cyril and Methodius (IX century). It was in use until the time of Grand Duke Ivan Danilovich Kalita. Under him, the Greek Theognost, who had been appointed Metropolitan of All Russia, ordered in 1328 that the Trebnik which he had brought with him be translated into Slavonic. His Trebnik came into general use in the Russian Church.

With the advent of printing in Russia (1564), handwritten Trebniks were corrected and published under Patriarchs Philaret (1619-1633), Joasaph I (1634-1640), Joseph (1642-1652), Nikon (1652-1666), Joasaph II (1667-1672), Joachim (1674-1690).

Patriarch Joasaph I supplemented the Trebnik with the appendix of the Council's decrees. The Trebnik, published under Patriarch Joseph in 1651, was called the Great Trebnik. In 1672, Joasaph II published an abridged version of the Great Trebnik. It was called the Small Trebnik. In 1687, Patriarch Joachim improved this edition by printing the Nomocanon (in an abridged form) in the Small Trebnik.

In 1863, in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, with the blessing of the Kiev Metropolitan Arseny, the Additional Trebnik was published.

Types of Trebniks and their content

In church practice, there are the following types of Trebnik: Large, Small, Additional, Small in two parts.

The Great Trebnik consists of two parts. The first part contains the sequences of the Sacraments: Baptism, Chrismation, Marriage (Marriage), Anointing of the Sick, Repentance - and other Divine services: burial of the dead, blessing of water, tonsure into monasticism. With these prayers, the Orthodox Church meets a person at his birth, sanctifies his life and guides him when he transmigrates into eternity. The prayers are set forth in the sequence in which they are usually needed by a Christian. In case of a serious illness that prevents a person from going to church to receive Holy Communion, the Orthodox Church allows him to commune the Holy Mysteries of Christ at home. That is why there is a rite in the Trebnik, "when it happens soon that the sick person will receive communion."

The second part of the Great Trebnik contains mainly prayers of various liturgical and religious-everyday rites, in particular: prayers for the consecration of things, buildings, structures; prayers for the blessing of vegetables (fruits) and grapes (grapes); prayers of absolution from the oath; prayers at the beginning of any work and in general asking God's blessing; the prayer of the Holy Seven Youths of Ephesus (Comm. 4 Aug. and Oct. 22) for the infirm and sleepless (who is exhausted, not having a long time of sleep); prayer over salt; going to the position of son (that is, when adopting someone); prayers during the blessing of viands and artos on Holy Pascha; the service for youths who are incomprehensible; prayers for the expulsion of evil spirits. In the second part of the Trebnik there are also some rites relating to public worship: the rite of washing the feet on Great Thursday, the words of John Chrysostom on Great Thursday and on Holy Pascha, and the prayers kneeling at Vespers on the day of the feast of Pentecost; prayer services for various occasions; prayers for those who seek peace; an exposition of the rites and prayers that occur when the Orthodox Church receives into its bosom those who are outside of it; rites for the consecration of the church; as well as the Nomocanon - a collection of canonical rules.

In addition, the Great Trebnik has two additional chapters, constituting, as it were, its third part. The first contains the menologion, the second is the estate (index) of names (saints) in alphabetical order.

The Small Trebnik is an abbreviated version of the Great Trebnik. It contains the sequences of sacred actions and prayers, which most often have to be performed by the parish priest. The content of the first part of the Bolshoi

The Trebnik, with a few exceptions, was also included in the Small Trebnik. From the second part of the Large Trebnik, the Lesser Blessing of Water and the Blessing of the Water of the Holy Theophany were introduced; prayers for the blessing of various foods, for the consecration of buildings and wells; prayers at the consecration of the defiled; prayers read during the blessing over salt, sowing, and the like. From the Nomocanon is taken the "expression of the most necessary rules", which is shorter in volume than in the Great Trebnik.