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Though very few details of his life are known, tradition does give a basic outline. Andrei (commonly Andrew in English) went to a monastery, called [[Holy Trinity]] Monastery, at a young age and grew up there. He was greatly influenced by St [[Sergius of Radonezh]], the [[igumen]] of the monastery.
Eventually Andrei decided to become a [[monk]], and with the blessing of the new igumen of his monastery traveled to another, the [[Andronikov Monastery (Moscow)|Spaso-Andronikov Monastery]], founded by St [[Andronik of Moscow|Andronik]] ([[June 13]]). There he was tonsured a monk and began to study [[iconography]] under [[Theophanes the Greek]] and a monk named Daniel.
The first known reference to his work appeared in 1405, when he is said to have written icons and frescoes in the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Moscow with Theophanes and another iconographer named Prochorus. In 1408 he and Daniel, his fellow monastic, painted frescoes in the Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir. Finally, he and Daniel were asked to paint the new church of [[Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra|Holy Trinity Monastery]], where Andrei had grown up, after the [[monastery]] was destroyed by Tatars in 1408. This was about the time that he painted the only surviving [[icon]] credited as entirely his work - the '''Trinity''', or '''Hospitality of Abraham'''.
