Complex sentence: More than 900 years ago, on the way to the holy site of Palestine, father Daniel Sysoev made a stop on the island, and became the first Russian writer to tell of the local sights.
Split into simpler sentences: More than 900 years ago, on the way to the holy sites of Palestine, father Daniel Sysoev made a stop on the island. He became the first Russian writer to tell of the local sights.