Anthology of Russian Literature : From the Tenth Century to the Close of the Eighteenth Century

by Wiener, Leo

• ISBN13: 9780898753479
• ISBN10: 0898753473
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
A Sketch of Russian Literature	p. 1
The Oldest Period	p. 3
The Folklore	p. 18
The Eighteenth Century	p. 26
The Oldest Period	p. 39
Treaty with the Greeks (911)	p. 41
Luka Zhidyata (XI. c.)	p. 44
Instruction to his Congregation	p. 44
The Russian Code (XI. c.)	p. 45
Ilarion, Metropolitan of Kiev (XI. c.)	p. 48
Eulogy on St. Vladimir	p. 48
Vladimir Monomakh (1053-1125)	p. 50
His Instruction to his Children	p. 51
Abbot Daniel, the Palmer (XII. c.)	p. 56
Of the Holy Light, how it Descends from Heaven upon the Holy Sepulchre	p. 56
Epilogue	p. 61
Cyril, Bishop of Turov (XII. c.)	p. 62
From a Sermon on the First Sunday after Easter	p. 62
Nestor's Chronicle (XII. c.)	p. 65
The Baptism of Vladimir and of all Russia	p. 65
The Kiev Chronicle (XII. c.)	p. 71
The Expedition of Igor Svyatoslavich against the Polovtses	p. 72
The Word of Igor's Armament (XII. c.)	p. 80
The Holy Virgiu's Descent into Hell (XII. c.)	p. 96
Daniel the Prisoner (XIII. c.)	p. 100
Letter to Priuce Yaroslav Vsevolodovich	p. 101
Serapion, Bishop of Vladimir (XIII. c.)	p. 104
A Sermon on Omens	p. 104
The Zadonshchina (XIV. c.)	p. 106
Afanasi Nikitin (XV. c.)	p. 111
Travel to India	p. 111
Apocryphal Legends about King Solomon (XV. c.)	p. 114
The Story of Kitovras	p. 114
Prince Kurbski (1528-1583)	p. 115
The Storming of Kazan	p. 116
Letter to Ivan the Terrible	p. 118
Ivan the Terrible (1530-1584)	p. 121
Letter to Prince Kurbski	p. 121
The Domostroy (XVI. c.)	p. 126
How to Educate Children and Bring them up in the Fear of God	p. 126
How to Teach Children and Save them through Fear	p. 127
How Christians are to Cure Diseases and all Kinds of Ailments	p. 128
The Wife is always and in all Things to Take Counsel with her Husband	p. 128
How to Instruct Servants	p. 129
Songs Collected by Richard James (1619-1620)	p. 130
Incursion of the Crimean Tartars	p. 131
The Song of the Princess Kseniya Borisovna	p. 132
The Return of Patriarch Filaret to Moscow	p. 133
Krizhanich (1617-1677)	p. 134
Political Reasons for the Union of the Churches	p. 135
On Knowledge	p. 136
On Foreiguers	p. 136
Kotoshikhin (1630-1667)	p. 136
The Education of the Princes	p. 137
The Private Life of the Boyars and of other Ranks	p. 139
Simeon Polotski (1629-1680)	p. 149
On the Birth of Peter the Great	p. 150
An Evil Thought	p. 151
The Magnet	p. 151
The Story of Misery Luckless-Plight (XVII. or XVIII. c.)	p. 152
The Folklore	p. 161
Epic Songs	p. 163
Volkh Vseslavevich	p. 163
Ilya of Murom and Nightingale the Robber	p. 165
Historical Songs	p. 172
Ermak	p. 172
The Boyar's Execution	p. 174
The Storming of Azov	p. 176
Folksongs	p. 177
Kolyadka	p. 178
Bowl-Song	p. 179
A Parting Scene	p. 179
The Dove	p. 180
The Faithless Lover	p. 182
Elegy	p. 182
The Farewell	p. 183
Sing, O sing again, lovely lark of mine	p. 184
Wedding Gear	p. 185
The Sale of the Braid	p. 185
Marriage Song	p. 186
Beggars' Song	p. 186
An Orphan's Wailing	p. 187
Conjuration of a Mother	p. 188
Fairy Tales	p. 189
Frost	p. 190
The Cat, the Goat and the Ram	p. 195
The Fox and the Peasant	p. 198
Proverbs	p. 199
The Eighteenth Century	p. 203
Pososhkov (1670-1726)	p. 205
On Merchants	p. 205
On the Peasantry	p. 209
Prokopovich (1681-1763)	p. 211
The Spiritual Reglement	p. 212
Funeral Sermon on Peter the Great	p. 214
Tatishchev (1686-1750)	p. 218
From the "Russian History"	p. 219
Kantemir (1708-1744)	p. 223
To my Mind	p. 224
Tredyakovski (1703-1769)	p. 230
Ode on the Surrender of Dantzig	p. 230
Princess Dolgoruki (1714-1771)	p. 233
From her "Memoirs"	p. 234
Lomonosov (1711-1765)	p. 241
Letters to I. I. Shuvalov	p. 242
Ode on the Capture of Khotin	p. 246
Morning Meditations	p. 252
Evening Meditations	p. 253
Sumarokov (1718-1777)	p. 254
The False Demetrius	p. 255
Instruction to a Son	p. 257
To the Corrupters of Language	p. 260
The Helpful Gnat	p. 260
Four Answers	p. 261
Vasili Maykov (1728-1778)	p. 263
The Battle of the Zimogorans and Valdayans	p. 263
The Cook and the Tailor	p. 267
Danilov (1722-1790)	p. 269
From his "Memoirs"	p. 269
Catherine the Great (1729-1796)	p. 272
O Tempora	p. 272
Prince Khlor	p. 276
Shcherbatov (1733-1790)	p. 287
On the Corruption of Manners in Russia	p. 287
Petrov (1736-1799)	p. 291
On the Victory of the Russian over the Turkish Fleet	p. 291
Kheraskov (1733-1807)	p. 298
The Rossiad	p. 298
Metropolitan Platon (1737-1812)	p. 300
What are Idolaters?	p. 300
Address upon the Accession of Alexander I	p. 304
Khemnitser (1745-1784)	p. 306
The Lion's Council of State	p. 306
The Metaphysician	p. 307
Knyazhnin (1742-1791)	p. 308
Vadim of Novgorod	p. 309
Odd People	p. 311
Princess Dashkov (1743-1810)	p. 316
The Establishment of a Russian Academy	p. 316
Poroshin (1741-1769)	p. 321
From his "Diary"	p. 321
The Satirical Journals (1769-1774), and Novikov (1744-1818)	p. 326
From All Kinds of Things	p. 328
Sound Reasoning Adorns a Man	p. 329
From the Drone	p. 332
Recipe for His Excellency Mr. Lacksense	p. 332
The Laughing Democritos	p. 333
From Hell's Post	p. 335
From the Painter	p. 337
Fon-Vizin (1744-1792)	p. 341
The Minor	p. 342
An Open-Hearted Confession	p. 351
Letters to Count Panin	p. 355
Kostrov (1750-1796)	p. 358
Letter to the Creator of the Ode in Praise of Felitsa	p. 359
Radishchev (1749-1802)	p. 361
Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow	p. 362
Ablesimov (1742-1783)	p. 370
The Miller	p. 370
Bogdanovich (1743-1803)	p. 374
Psyche. From Book I	p. 374
Psyche. From Book II	p. 375
Derzhavin (1743-1816)	p. 377
Ode to the Deity	p. 379
Monody on Prince Meshcherski	p. 382
Felitsa	p. 385
The Waterfall	p. 390
The Storm	p. 391
The Stream of Time	p. 392
Neledinski-Meletski (1752-1829)	p. 392
To the Streamlet I'll Repair	p. 392
He whose Soul from Sorrow Dreary	p. 394
Muravev (1757-1807)	p. 395
To the Goddess of the Neva	p. 395
Kapnist (1757-1824)	p. 397
The Pettifoggery	p. 398
Obukhovka	p. 402
On Julia's Death	p. 404
Gribovski (1766-1833)	p. 405
From his "Memoirs"	p. 405
Kamenev (1772-1803)	p. 411
Gromval	p. 412
Ozerov (1770-1816)	p. 418
Dimitri Donskoy	p. 419
Prince Dolgoruki (1764-1823)	p. 422
The Legacy	p. 422
My Moscow Fireplace	p. 425
Dmitriev (1760-1837)	p. 428
The Little Dove	p. 429
During a Thunder-Storm	p. 430
Ermak	p. 431
What Others Say	p. 436
Index	p. 441
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