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Anthology of Old Russian Literature

by Adolf Stender-Petersen. 542 pgs.

Contributors:

   Adolf Stender-Petersen

Publisher:

   Columbia University Press

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1954

Subjects:

Russian Literature--To 1700

	CONTENTS
	OLD KIEVAN LITERATURE	1
	Annalistic Literature	3
	Nestor's Chronicle: The Tales of Bygone Years	3
	The Cosmographic Introduction to the Chronicle	3
	The Legend of St. Andrew the Apostle	7
	The Varangian Sagas of the First Kings, or Princes, of Russia	8
	The Invitation to the Varangians	8
	The Occupation of Kiev by Askol'd and Dir	9
	Askol'd's and Dir's Raid on Constantinople	10
	Oleg's Occupation of Kiev	11
	Oleg's Campaign against Constantinople	12
	Oleg's Death	13
	The Assassination of Igor	14
	Olga's Revenge	15
	Olga's Baptism in Constantinople	19
	Prince Vladimir and Princess Rogned	20
	The Presbyter Vasilij: The Story of the Blinding of Prince Vasil'ko of Terebovl	22
	Hagiography	34
	Nestor's Life of Theodosius, First Abbot of the Cave Monastery	34
	Nestor's Narrative of the Naming of the Cave Monastery	44
	Monastic Legends from the Patericon of the Cave Monastery	48
	The Founding of the Church of the Cave Monastery	49
	The Arrival of the Church-Builders from Constantinople	52
	The Arrival of the Iconographs from Constantinople	55
	John and Sergius of the Cave Monastery	57
	Gregorius the Wonder-Worker	58
	Moses the Hungarian	62
	SS.Theodorus and Basilius of the Cave Monastery	68
	Prince Sv'atoša of Černigov	75
	Passion and Encomium of SS. Boris and Gleb the Martyrs	80
	Nestor's Lection on the Life and Assassination of SS. Boris and Gleb the Martyrs	92
	The Life of Prince Alexander Nevskij	100
	Rhetoric and Lyricism	109
	Metropolitan Hilarion's Sermon on Law and Grace	109
	Cyril of Turov's Sermons	113
	Easter Eve Sermon	113
	Sermon on the First Sunday after Easter	119
	Cyril of Turov's Prayers	121
	Prayer after Sunday Matins	121
	Prayer after Monday Matins, Entitled Prayer to the Angels for the Soul	125
	Prayer after Thursday Matins	128
	Cyril of Turov's Canon of Supplication	133
	Serapion of Vladimir's Sermon on the Merciless Heathens	138
	Daniel the Exile's Lament	141
	Heroic and Epic Literature	135
	The Igor Tale	153
	The Narrative of Batu Khan's Invasion of R'azan'	166
	Discourse on the Ruin of the Land of Rus	174
	Sofonija of R'azan': The Don Tale	176
	OLD MUSCOVITE LITERATURE	187
	Hagiography	189
	The Life of St. Mercurius of Smolensk	189
	The Life of Peter, Prince of Murom, and His Wife Fevronia	192
	Metropolitan Cyprian: The Life of Peter, First Metropolitan of Moscow	202
	Epiphanius the Sage: The Life of St. Stefan of Perm'	211
	Epiphanius the Sage: The Life of St. Sergius of Radonež	226
	The Life and Death of Dimitrij, Tsar of Russia	230
	Historiography	239
	Nestor-Iskander: The Tale of the Taking of Constantinople	239
	Pachomius Logothetes: The Legend of the Princes of Vladimir	252
	The Tale of the Taking of the Empire of Kazan	258
	The Tale of the Attack of the Lithuanian King Stefan Batory on the Great and Famous Town of Pskov, and of its Liberation	282
	The Book of Degrees of the Imperial Genealogy	297
	NEW MUSCOVITE LITERATURE	315
	Historiography	317
	Lament on the Occupation and Ultimate Devastation of the Muscovite Empire	317
	Prince Katyr'ov-Rostovskij: Story of Former Years	325
	The Tale of the Death of Prince Skopin-Šujskij	342
	F'odor Porošin: The Tale of the Siege of Azov	351
	Hagiography	380
	Callistratus Družina-Osorjin: The Life of the Saintly and Pious Juliana Lazarevskaja	380
	The Life of Boyarina Morozova, Princess Urusova, and Maria Danilova	387
	The Life of the Protopope Avvakum	404
	Fiction	425
	The Tale of Sorrow and Misfortune	425
	The Tale of Savva, the Son of the Esteemed Merchant Thomas Grudcyn	437
	The Tale of the Rich and Celebrated Merchant Karp Sutulov and His Prudent Wife	454
	The Story of Frol Skobejev, a Russian Nobleman	460
	GLOSSARY	471
	INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES	505
	INDEX OF NAMES	511
	GENDALOGICAL TABLES	529
	Table A: The R'urik dynasty	531
	Table B: The descendants of Vseslav, Prince of Polock	532
	Table C: The descendants of Vladimir, Prince of Novgorod	533
	Table D: The descendants of Iz'aslav, Great Prince of Kiev	533
	Table E: The descendants of Sv'atoslav, Great Prince of Kiev
	a: The branch of Černigov	534
	b: The branch of R'azan	535
	Table F: The descendants of Vsevolod, Great Prince of Kiev
	a: The Southern branch	536
	b: The Northern branch	537
	Table G: The Princes and Tsars of Moscow	538
	Table H: The Romanov dynasty	539

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