It is believed that the founder of Tarnovo Literary School and last patriarch of the mediaeval Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Euthymius, was exiled by the Turks and worked in the school of the monastery in the early 15th century.
Man tror att grundaren av Tarnovo skriftskola och den sista patriarken av den medeltida Bulgarisk-ortodoxa kyrkan, patriark Euthymius, tvingades i exil av turkarna och arbetade i klostrets skola i början av 1400-talet.