He was a disciple of Sergius of Radonezh,[1] and later went on to found four monasteries on Lake Chukhloma, in the region of Galich in present-day Kostroma Oblast.

According to the excerpt from his hagiography, he originally worked in the Pechersky Ascension Monastery in Nizhny Novgorod, from where he moved to the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra.

According to his legend, Abraham died on 20 July 1375, but D. F. Prilutsky and Y. E. Golubinsky believed that his death happened a little later, since Prince Yuri Dimitrievich was named to be his contemporary, who received the Galich lands in 1389.

[4] A stone cathedral in honor of the Intercession of the Theotokos was built over the relics of Abraham in 1608–1631, later after this monastery was ruined, in 1857–1867 over the relics of the monk, the cathedral was built in honor of the icon of the Mother of God Tenderness.

The hagiography of Abraham was compiled in 1548–1553 by an abbot of Gorodets Monastery, Protasy, who took the old monastic records about the saint as a basis.