⁵⁰The earliest of these apocryphal Acts were written at the end of the 2nd century; see their translation.^[79] The Church historian Golubinsky believed that the legend of St. Andrew’s stay on the banks of the Borysthenes (Dnieper) was only a symbol of the apostolic provenance of Christianity in Russia.^[80] However, there is nothing improbable in the fact that the apostle may have visited those places, because Greek settlements already existed there at the time.