Encyclopedia - The Tale Of Igor's Campaign: Encyclopedia Ii - The Tale Of Igor's Campaign - Authenticity
The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Early reactions. When the first modern edition of the Tale was published, questions about its authenticit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukrainian Language: Encyclopedia - Ukrainian Language
Ukrainian (украї́нська мо́ва, ukrayins'ka mova, [ukraˈjinsʲka ˈmɔva]) is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukrainian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukrainian Language - History
Ukrainian language - Perspective. Before the eighteenth century the precursor to the modern Ukrainian language was a vernacular languag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of World Folk-epics: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of World Folk-epics - List Of World Folk-epics
List of world folk-epics - African languages. Lianja a central African epic Silamaka a Western African epic Soundiata an African epic ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval Literature - Types Of Writing
Medieval literature - Religious. As shown in the chart to the right, theological works were the dominant form of literature typically f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukrainian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukrainian Language - History
Ukrainian language - Perspective. Before the eighteenth century the precursor to the modern Ukrainian language was a vernacular languag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Russian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Russian Literature - Golden Age
19th century is traditionally referred to as the "Golden Age" for Russian literature. Romanticism permitted a flowering of especially poe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old East Slavic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old East Slavic Language - Literary Language Of Kievan Rus
The political unification of the region into the state called Kievan Rus, from which modern Belarus, Russia and Ukraine trace their origi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prince Igor: Encyclopedia Ii - Prince Igor - Characters And Setting
(Note: By a common misconception, Prince Galitsky in the opera is thought to be a prince by the name of Galitsky. In fact, he was a son o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukrainian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukrainian Language - Language Structure
Ukrainian language - Comparative grammar. Old East Slavic (and Russian) o in many cases corresponds to Ukrainian i, as in pod->pid "...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukrainian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukrainian Language - Current Usage
The Ukrainian language is currently emerging from a long period of decline. Although there are almost fifty million ethnic Ukrainians wor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukrainian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukrainian Language - History Of Ukrainian Literature
The literary Ukrainian language, which was preceded by Old East Slavic literature, may be subdivided into three stages: old Ukrainian (tw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old East Slavic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old East Slavic Language - Old East Slavic Literature
The Old East Slavic language was the only ancient Slavic tongue (apart from the Old Church Slavonic) that developed a great literature of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval Literature - Languages
Since Latin was the language of the Catholic Church, which dominated Western and Central Europe, and since the Church was virtually the o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukrainian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukrainian Language - Current Usage
The Ukrainian language is currently emerging from a long period of decline. Although there are almost fifty million ethnic Ukrainians wor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukrainian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukrainian Language - History Of Ukrainian Literature
The literary Ukrainian language, which was preceded by the Old East Slavic literature, may be subdivided into three stages: old Ukrainian...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old East Slavic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old East Slavic Language - General Considerations
The language was a descendant of the Proto-Slavic language and faithfully retained many of its features. A striking innovation in the evo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ukrainian Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Ukrainian Language - Language Structure
Ukrainian language - Comparative grammar. Old East Slavic (and Russian) o in many cases corresponds to Ukrainian i, as in pod->pid "...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Russian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Russian Literature - Post-soviet Era
The end of the 20th century and the early 21st century has proven a difficult period for Russian literature, with relatively few writers ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Russian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Russian Literature - Silver Age
Other genres came to the fore with the approach of the 20th century. Anton Chekhov excelled in writing short story, short stories and dra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Russian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Russian Literature - Soviet Era
Sovietization of Russia affected literature after 1917. Maxim Gorky, Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Sholokhov, Valentin Kataev, Aleksei Nikol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Tale Of Igor's Campaign: Encyclopedia Ii - The Tale Of Igor's Campaign - Reaction Of 19th Century Scholars
A passage on Vseslav the Werewolf In the seventh age of Troyan, Vseslav cast lots for the damsel he wooed. By subterfuge, propping himsel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Tale Of Igor's Campaign: Encyclopedia Ii - The Tale Of Igor's Campaign - The Plot
The plot of this classic work is based on a failed raid of Kniaz Igor Svyatoslavich of Novhorod-Siverskyy (of the Chernihiv principality ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Tale Of Igor's Campaign: Encyclopedia Ii - The Tale Of Igor's Campaign - Discovery And Publication
The only manuscript of the Tale, dated to 1400s, was discovered in 1795, in the library of a Yaroslavl monastery, where the first library...   » Read the article