Medieval Russian Epics, Chronicles, and Tales

by Zenkovsky, Serge A.

• ISBN13: 9780452010864
• ISBN10: 0452010861
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1974-05-01
• Publisher: Plume

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Preface to the Second Edition	ix
Introduction: The Literature of Medieval Russia	1	(42)
PART I: LITERARY SCHOOL OF THE KIEVAN ERA (Eleventh to Mid-Thirteenth Century)
Epics and Stories from the Chronicles	43	(42)
Stories from the Primary Chronicle	43	(34)
Prolegomenon	44	(3)
The Apostle Andrew Comes to Russia	47	(1)
The Founding of the City of Kiev	48	(1)
The Beginning of the Russian State and the Arrival of Rurik	49	(2)
Prince Oleg's Campaign Against Constantinople	51	(2)
The Death of Oleg	53	(1)
Igor's Death and Olga's Revenge	54	(4)
Sviatoslav's Early Campaigns	58	(1)
The Siege of Kiev and Olga's Death	59	(3)
Sviatoslav's War Against Byzantium and His Death	62	(3)
Vladimir Christianizes Russia	65	(6)
Yaroslav the Wise	71	(2)
The Blinding of Vasilko	73	(4)
Tales from the Novgorodian Chronicle	77	(6)
Life in the City of Novgorod	78	(2)
Novgorod at War with Suzdal	80	(1)
The Election of Archbishop Mantury, and Novgorod Wars Against the Ugrians	81	(2)
Stories from the Galician-Volynian Chronicle	83	(2)
Prince Roman, Khan Otrok, and the Worm-wood	83	(2)
Homiletic and Didactic Works	85	(16)
Metropolitan Hilarion: Sermon on Law and Grace	85	(5)
Cyril of Turov: Sermon on the First Sunday After Easter	90	(2)
Vladimir Monomakh: Instruction to His Children	92	(9)
The Lives of Saints and Monks	101	(52)
Stories from the Primary Chronicle	101	(15)
The Martyrdom of Boris and Gleb	101	(4)
The Beginning of the Kievan Crypt Monastery, and Its Founder, St. Antonius	105	(3)
St. Theodosius, Abbot of the Crypt Monastery	108	(4)
Brother Isaac and the Demons	112	(4)
Monk Nestor	116	(18)
Life of Our Blessed Father Theodosius, Abbot of the Crypt Monastery	116	(18)
Stories from the Kievan Crypt Paterikon	134	(19)
Bishop Simon: Viking Shimon and St. Theodosius	135	(3)
Bishop Simon: The Coming of the Greek Iconographers from Constantinople to Abbot Nikon	138	(2)
Bishop Simon: John and Sergius	140	(2)
Bishop Simon: Prince Sviatosha of Chernigov	142	(5)
Monk Polycarpe: Marko the Gravedigger Who Was Obeyed by the Dead	147	(6)
Apocrypha	153	(14)
The Descent of the Virgin into Hell	153	(7)
Adam's Address to Lazarus in Hell	160	(7)
Epics	167	(26)
The Lay of Igor's Campaign	167	(26)
PART II: EPIGONES OF THE KIEVAN SCHOOL (Mid-Thirteenth to Fourteenth Century)
Military Tales	193	(31)
The Battle on the River Kalka	193	(3)
Orison on the Downfall of Russia	196	(2)
Tale of the Destruction of Riazan	198	(10)
The Heroic Deeds of Mercurius of Smolensk	208	(3)
Sofony of Riazan: Zadonshchina	211	(13)
Lives of the Saint-Princes	224	(19)
Tale of the Life and Courage of the Pious and Great Prince Alexander [Nevsky]	224	(12)
Narrative of the Pious Prince Dovmont and His Courage	236	(7)
Homiletic Works	243	(6)
Serapion of Vladimir: Sermon on the Merciless Heathens	243	(3)
Serapion of Vladimir: Sermon on Omens	246	(3)
Epistolary Works	249	(10)
The Writing of Daniil the Prisoner	249	(10)
PART III: THE ERA OF MUSCOVITE ORNAMENTAL FORMALISM (Fifteenth to the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century)
Lives of Saints and Biographical Tales	259	(56)
Epiphanius the Wise: Panegyric to St. Stephen of Perm	259	(3)
Epiphanius the Wise: The Life, Acts, and Miracles of Our Blessed and Holy Father Sergius of Radonezh	262	(28)
Peter and Fevronia of Murom	290	(10)
The Life of St. Michael, a Fool in Christ	300	(10)
The Story of Great John, Archbishop of Novgorod the Great	310	(5)
Lives of the Saint-Princes	315	(8)
Orison on the Life and Death of Grand Prince Dmitry Ivanovich	315	(8)
Ideological Writings	323	(10)
The Tale of the White Cowl	323	(10)
Travelers' Accounts	333	(21)
Afanasy Nikitin's Journey Across Three Seas	333	(21)
New Military Tales	354	(12)
The Story of Stephen Bathory's Campaign Against Pskov	354	(12)
Epistolary Polemics	366	(13)
Prince Andrew Kurbsky: First Epistle to Tsar Ivan IV	366	(4)
Ivan IV: Epistle of the Tsar Against Prince Kurbsky	370	(9)
PART IV: THE WANE OF MEDIEVAL PATTERNS AND RISE OF THE BAROQUE (Seventeenth Century)
Historical Works from the Time of Troubles	379	(12)
Avraamy Palitsyn: Pseudo-Dmitry	379	(7)
Avraamy Palitsyn: Answer of the Defenders of the Holy Trinity---St. Sergius Monastery to the Polish Request of Surrender	386	(2)
Prince Ivan M. Katyrev-Rostovsky: A Description of the Tsars and Their Families	388	(3)
Biographical Works	391	(58)
Kallistrat Druzhina-Osoryin: The Life of Yuliania Lazarevsky	391	(8)
The Life of Archpriest Avvakum by Himself	399	(50)
Secular Tales	449	(38)
Shemiaka's Judgment	449	(3)
The Tale of Savva Grudtsyn	452	(22)
Frol Skobeev, the Rogue	474	(13)
Poetry	487	(33)
Ivan Funikov: Message of a Nobleman to a Nobleman	487	(2)
Misery-Luckless-Plight	489	(12)
Three Poems from the Collection of Baccalaureus Richard James
Raid of the Crimean Tatars	501	(2)
Lament of Boris Godunov's Daughter	503	(2)
Ode on the Return to Moscow of Filaret, Tsar Mikhail's Father	505	(1)
Epic of Sukhan	505	(6)
Prince Ivan A. Khvorostinin: Autobiographical Verses	511	(3)
The Orderly of Colonel Theodore Zay: A Love Letter from the Year 1698	514	(1)
Peter Kvashnin: Dear Brother	515	(1)
Peter Kvashnin: I Thought	516	(1)
Simeon Polotsky: Excerpt from Ode on the Birth of Peter I	517	(1)
Simeon Polotsky: The Law	518	(1)
Simeon Polotsky: The Merchant Class	518	(2)
Miscellany	520	(3)
Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich: The Rules of Falconry	520	(3)
A Short Glossary of Russian Terms	523	(2)
Chronology of Russian History and Culture	525