{"product_id":"medieval-russias-epics-chronicles-and-tales-isbn-9780452010864","title":"Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales","description":"First published in 1963, this unique and pioneering anthology has been continuously used as an invaluable text in Russian studies. Containing over sixty selections from the finest of Russia’s medieval authors, much of the material published in this anthology has never before been available in English. \u003ci\u003eMedieval Russian Epics, Chronicles, and Tales\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital resource for readers interested in learning more about the writings that influenced Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor Serge A. Zenkovsky completely revised the text and enlarged the book, adding almost one hundred pages of new material, including:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e·\u003c\/b\u003e Sviatoslav’s Early Campaigns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·\u003c\/b\u003e The Siege of Kiev and Olga’s Death\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·\u003c\/b\u003e Vladimir Monomakh: Instruction to His Children\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·\u003c\/b\u003e Tale of the Life and Courage of the Pious and Great Prince Alexander\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·\u003c\/b\u003e Narrative of the Pious Prince Dovmont and His Courage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·\u003c\/b\u003e The Writing of Daniil the Prisoner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·\u003c\/b\u003e Orison on the Life and Death of Grand Prince Dmitry Ivanovich\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·\u003c\/b\u003e Afanasy Nikitin’s Journey Across Three Seas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·\u003c\/b\u003e Ivan Funikov: Message of a Nobleman to a Nobleman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·\u003c\/b\u003e Epic of Sukhan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·\u003c\/b\u003e Simeon Polotsky: Excerpt from Ode on the Birth of Peter I\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·\u003c\/b\u003e Simeon Polotsky: The Law\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·\u003c\/b\u003e Simeon Polotsky: The Merchant Class\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·\u003c\/b\u003e Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich: The Rules of Falconry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In addition to a comprehensive introduction, the editor has prefaced each selection with detailed information about its literary and historical background, and has included a glossary and brief chronology of Russian history and culture.Preface\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Second Edition\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Literature of Medieval Russia\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Literary School of the Kievian Era (Eleventh to Mid-Thirteenth Century\u003cb\u003eA. Epics and Stories from the Chronicles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea. Stories from the \u003ci\u003ePrimary Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Prolegomenon\u003cbr\u003e2. The Apostle Andrew Comes to Russia\u003cbr\u003e3. The Founding of the City of Kiev\u003cbr\u003e4. The Beginning of the Russian State and the Arrival of Rurik\u003cbr\u003e5. Prince Oleg's Campaign Against Constantinople\u003cbr\u003e6. The Death of Oleg\u003cbr\u003e7. Igor's Death and Olga's Revenge\u003cbr\u003e8. Sviatoslav's Early Campaigns\u003cbr\u003e9. The Siege of Kiev and Olga's Death\u003cbr\u003e10. Sviatoslav's War Against Byzantium and His Death\u003cbr\u003e11. Vladimir Christianizes Russia\u003cbr\u003e12. Yaroslav the Wise\u003cbr\u003e13. The Blinding of Vasilko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eb. Tales from the \u003ci\u003eNovgorodian Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14. Life in the City of Novgorod\u003cbr\u003e15. Novgorod at War with Suzdal\u003cbr\u003e16. The Election of Archbishop Mantury, and Novgorod Wars Against the Ugrians\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ec. Stories from the \u003ci\u003eGalician-Volynian Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e17. Prince Roman, Khan Otrok, and the Wormwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eB. Homiletic and Didactic Works\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e18. Metropolitan Hilarion: Sermon on Law and Grace\u003cbr\u003e19. Cyril of Turov: Sermon on the First Sunday After Easter\u003cbr\u003e20. Vladimir Monomakh: Instruction to His Children\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eC. The Lives of Saints and Monks\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea. Stories from the \u003ci\u003ePrimary Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e21. The Martyrdom of Boris and Gleb\u003cbr\u003e22. The Beginning of the Kievan Crypt Monastery, and Its Founder, St. Antonius\u003cbr\u003e23. St. Theodosius, Abbot of the Crypt Monastery\u003cbr\u003e24. Brother Isaac and the Demons\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eb. Monk Nestor\u003cbr\u003e25. Life of Our Blessed Father Theodosius, Abbot of the Crypt Monastery\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ec. Stories from the \u003ci\u003eKievan Crypt Paterikon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e26. Bishop Simon: Viking Shimon and St. Theodosius\u003cbr\u003e27. Bishop Simon: The Coming of the Greek Iconographers from Constantinople to Abbot Nikon\u003cbr\u003e28. Bishop Simon: John and Sergius\u003cbr\u003e29. Bishop Simon: Prince Sviatosha of Chernigov\u003cbr\u003e30. Monk Polycarpe: Marko the Gravedigger Who Was Obeyed by the Dead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eD. Apocrypha\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e31. The Descent of the Virgin into Hell\u003cbr\u003e32. Adam's Address to Lazarus in Hell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eE. Epics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e33. The Lay of Igor's Campaign\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Epigones of the Kievan School (Mid-Thirteenth to Fourteenth Century\u003cb\u003eA. Military Tales\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e34. The Battle on the River Kalka\u003cbr\u003e35. Orison on the Downfall of Russia\u003cbr\u003e36. Tale of the Destruction of Riazan\u003cbr\u003e37. The Heroic Deeds of Mercurius of Smolensk\u003cbr\u003e38. Sofony of Riazan: Zadonshchina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eB. Lives of the Saint-Princes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e39. Tale of the Life and Courage of the Pious and Great Prince Alexander #Nevsky#\u003cbr\u003e40. Narrative of the Pious Prince Dovmont and His Courage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eC. Homiletic Works\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e441. Serapion of Vladimir: Sermon on the Merciless Heathens\u003cbr\u003e42. Serapion of Vladimir: Sermon on Omens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eD. Epistolary Works\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e43. The Writing of Daniil the Prisoner\u003cbr\u003ePart III: The Era of Muscovite Ornamental Formalism (Fifteenth to the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century\u003cb\u003eA. Lives of Saints and Biographical Tales\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e44. Epiphanius the Wise: Panegyric to St. Stephen of Perm\u003cbr\u003e45. Epiphanius the Wise: The Life, Acts, and Miracles of Our Blessed and Holy Father Sergius of Radonezh\u003cbr\u003e46. Peter and Febronia of Murom\u003cbr\u003e47. The Life of St. Michael, a Fool in Christ\u003cbr\u003e48. The Story of Great John, Archbishop of Novgorod the Great\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eB. Lives of the Saint-Princes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e49. Orison on the Life and Death of Grand Prince Dmitry Ivanovich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eC. Ideological Writings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e50. The Tale of the White Cowl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eD. Travelers' Accounts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e51. Afanasy Nikitin's Journey Across Three Seas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eE. New Military Tales\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e52. The Story of Stephen Bathory's Campaign Against Pskov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eF. Epistolary Polemics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e53. Prince Andrew Kurbsky: First Epistle to Tsar Ivan IV\u003cbr\u003e54. Ivan IV: Epistle of the Tsar Against Prince Kurbsky\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: The Wane of Medieval Patterns and Rise of the Baroque (Seventeenth Century)\u003cb\u003eA. Historical Works from the Time of Troubles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e55. Avraamy Palitsyn: Pseudo-Dmitry\u003cbr\u003e56. Avraamy Palitsyn: Answer of the Defenders of the Holy Trinity—St. Sergius Monastery to the Polish Request of Surrender\u003cbr\u003e57. Prince Ivan M. Katyrev-Rostovsky: A Description of the Tsars and Their Families\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eB. Biographical Works\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e58. Kallistrat Druzhina-Osoryin: The Life of Yuliania Lazarevsky\u003cbr\u003e59. The Life of Archpriest Avvakum by Himself\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eC. Secular Tales\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e60. Shemiaka's Judgment\u003cbr\u003e61. The Tale of Savva Grudtsyn\u003cbr\u003e62. Frol Skobeev, the Rogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eD. Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e63. Ivan Funikov: Message of a Nobleman to a Nobleman\u003cbr\u003e64. Misery-Luckless-Plight\u003cbr\u003eThree Poems from the Collection of Baccalaureus Richard James\u003cbr\u003e65. Raid of the Crimean Tatars\u003cbr\u003e66. Lament of Boris Godunov's Daughter\u003cbr\u003e67. Ode on the Return to Moscow of Filaret, Tsar Mikhail's Father\u003cbr\u003e68. Epic of Sukhan\u003cbr\u003e69. Prince Ivan A. Khvorostinin: Autobiographical Verses\u003cbr\u003e70. The Orderly of Colonel Theodore Zay: A Love Letter from the Year 1698\u003cbr\u003e71. Peter Kvashnin: Dear Brother\u003cbr\u003e72. Peter KVashnin: I Thought\u003cbr\u003e73. Simeon Polotsky: Excerpt from Ode on the Birth of Peter I\u003cbr\u003e74. Simeon Polotsky: The Law\u003cbr\u003e75. Simeon Polotsky: The Merchant Class\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eE. Miscellany\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e76. Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich: The Rules of Falconry\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Short Glossary of Russian Terms\u003cbr\u003eChronology of Russian History and Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSerge A. Zenkovsky\u003c\/b\u003e (1907–1990) was a Ukrainian American scholar and writer who specialized in Russian history and literature. He was a professor of Slavic civilization and literature at Vanderbilt University and taught at Indiana University, Harvard University, and Heidelberg University (Germany). He is the author \u003ci\u003eof Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales, \u003c\/i\u003eand edited and translated \u003ci\u003eThe Nikonian Chronicle.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304687390949,"sku":"NP9780452010864","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452010864.jpg?v=1767732504","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/medieval-russias-epics-chronicles-and-tales-isbn-9780452010864","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}