Medieval Russian Epics, Chronicles, and Tales: Revised Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction: The Literature of Medieval Russia

Part I: Literary School of the Kievian Era (Eleventh to Mid-Thirteenth Century A. Epics and Stories from the Chronicles

a. Stories from the Primary Chronicle

1. Prolegomenon

2. The Apostle Andrew Comes to Russia

3. The Founding of the City of Kiev

4. The Beginning of the Russian State and the Arrival of Rurik

5. Prince Oleg's Campaign Against Constantinople

6. The Death of Oleg

7. Igor's Death and Olga's Revenge

8. Sviatoslav's Early Campaigns

9. The Siege of Kiev and Olga's Death

10. Sviatoslav's War Against Byzantium and His Death

11. Vladimir Christianizes Russia

12. Yaroslav the Wise

13. The Blinding of Vasilko

b. Tales from the Novgorodian Chronicle

14. Life in the City of Novgorod

15. Novgorod at War with Suzdal

16. The Election of Archbishop Mantury, and Novgorod Wars Against the Ugrians

c. Stories from the Galician-Volynian Chronicle

17. Prince Roman, Khan Otrok, and the Wormwood

B. Homiletic and Didactic Works

18. Metropolitan Hilarion: Sermon on Law and Grace

19. Cyril of Turov: Sermon on the First Sunday After Easter

20. Vladimir Monomakh: Instruction to His Children

C. The Lives of Saints and Monks

a. Stories from the Primary Chronicle

21. The Martyrdom of Boris and Gleb

22. The Beginning of the Kievan Crypt Monastery, and Its Founder, St. Antonius

23. St. Theodosius, Abbot of the Crypt Monastery

24. Brother Isaac and the Demons

b. Monk Nestor

25. Life of Our Blessed Father Theodosius, Abbot of the Crypt Monastery

c. Stories from the Kievan Crypt Paterikon

26. Bishop Simon: Viking Shimon and St. Theodosius

27. Bishop Simon: The Coming of the Greek Iconographers from Constantinople to Abbot Nikon

28. Bishop Simon: John and Sergius

29. Bishop Simon: Prince Sviatosha of Chernigov

30. Monk Polycarpe: Marko the Gravedigger Who Was Obeyed by the Dead

D. Apocrypha

31. The Descent of the Virgin into Hell

32. Adam's Address to Lazarus in Hell

E. Epics

33. The Lay of Igor's Campaign

Part II: Epigones of the Kievan School (Mid-Thirteenth to Fourteenth Century A. Military Tales

34. The Battle on the River Kalka

35. Orison on the Downfall of Russia

36. Tale of the Destruction of Riazan

37. The Heroic Deeds of Mercurius of Smolensk

38. Sofony of Riazan: Zadonshchina

B. Lives of the Saint-Princes

39. Tale of the Life and Courage of the Pious and Great Prince Alexander #Nevsky#

40. Narrative of the Pious Prince Dovmont and His Courage

C. Homiletic Works

441. Serapion of Vladimir: Sermon on the Merciless Heathens

42. Serapion of Vladimir: Sermon on Omens

D. Epistolary Works

43. The Writing of Daniil the Prisoner

Part III: The Era of Muscovite Ornamental Formalism (Fifteenth to the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century A. Lives of Saints and Biographical Tales

44. Epiphanius the Wise: Panegyric to St. Stephen of Perm

45. Epiphanius the Wise: The Life, Acts, and Miracles of Our Blessed and Holy Father Sergius of Radonezh

46. Peter and Febronia of Murom

47. The Life of St. Michael, a Fool in Christ

48. The Story of Great John, Archbishop of Novgorod the Great

B. Lives of the Saint-Princes

49. Orison on the Life and Death of Grand Prince Dmitry Ivanovich

C. Ideological Writings

50. The Tale of the White Cowl

D. Travelers' Accounts

51. Afanasy Nikitin's Journey Across Three Seas

E. New Military Tales

52. The Story of Stephen Bathory's Campaign Against Pskov

F. Epistolary Polemics

53. Prince Andrew Kurbsky: First Epistle to Tsar Ivan IV

54. Ivan IV: Epistle of the Tsar Against Prince Kurbsky

Part IV: The Wane of Medieval Patterns and Rise of the Baroque (Seventeenth Century) A. Historical Works from the Time of Troubles

55. Avraamy Palitsyn: Pseudo-Dmitry

56. Avraamy Palitsyn: Answer of the Defenders of the Holy Trinity—St. Sergius Monastery to the Polish Request of Surrender

57. Prince Ivan M. Katyrev-Rostovsky: A Description of the Tsars and Their Families

B. Biographical Works

58. Kallistrat Druzhina-Osoryin: The Life of Yuliania Lazarevsky

59. The Life of Archpriest Avvakum by Himself

C. Secular Tales

60. Shemiaka's Judgment

61. The Tale of Savva Grudtsyn

62. Frol Skobeev, the Rogue

D. Poetry

63. Ivan Funikov: Message of a Nobleman to a Nobleman

64. Misery-Luckless-Plight

Three Poems from the Collection of Baccalaureus Richard James

65. Raid of the Crimean Tatars

66. Lament of Boris Godunov's Daughter

67. Ode on the Return to Moscow of Filaret, Tsar Mikhail's Father

68. Epic of Sukhan

69. Prince Ivan A. Khvorostinin: Autobiographical Verses

70. The Orderly of Colonel Theodore Zay: A Love Letter from the Year 1698

71. Peter Kvashnin: Dear Brother

72. Peter KVashnin: I Thought

73. Simeon Polotsky: Excerpt from Ode on the Birth of Peter I

74. Simeon Polotsky: The Law

75. Simeon Polotsky: The Merchant Class

E. Miscellany

76. Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich: The Rules of Falconry

A Short Glossary of Russian Terms

Chronology of Russian History and Culture