His writings documented the tragedy of a nation lost in alien-occupied Serbian lands when the Ottoman Empire began its conquest of Old Serbia.
Probably as a hieromonk at Oreskovica Monastery he moved to the north, near the border of Hungary, after the Austrian defeat by the Turks, went to Komoran as a Serbian teacher and later travelled to Imperial Russia.
In some places, his writing grows into a poignant cry in which the sound of Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem is felt as he watches the ruin of Jerusalem or the bleak record of Inok Isaiah over a devastated Serbia after the March defeat.
The writing is dedicated to the "imperial and grand princess" Sofia, sister of Peter the Great, probably with the intention of reminding the Russian court to intervene and help liberate Serbs from the Turkish yoke.
[2] In addition to these writings of Atanasije Daskal, he also attached a biographical note on the copyist of the books of Abraham and the zealous reader of the seventeenth century Ananias, also in connection with the circumstances of the war.