 |
|
|
The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Modern developments | A Wisdom Archive on The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Modern developments | | The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Modern developments A selection of articles related to The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Modern developments | |
|
|
More material related to The Tale Of Igors Campaign can be found here:
|
|
|
| | |
The Tale of Igor's Campaign, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Authenticity, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Discovery and publication, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Early reactions, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Modern developments, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Reaction of 19th century scholars, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Recent views, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - The plot, Prince Igor, Old East Slavic language
| | |
|
ARTICLES RELATED TO The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Modern developments | | | |  The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Modern developments: 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 authenticity have risen, mostly centered on its language. Suspicion was also fueled by contemporary fabrications (for example, the "Songs of Ossian" which were actually written by James Macpherson). Today, majority opinion accepts the authenticity of the text, based on similarity of its ...
See also:The Tale of Igor's Campaign, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - The plot, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Discovery and publication, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Reaction of 19th century scholars, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Authenticity, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Early reactions, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Modern developments, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Recent views Read more here: » The Tale of Igor's Campaign: Encyclopedia II - The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Authenticity |
| |
|
| | | | The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Modern developments: 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 himself upon mounted troops, he vaulted toward the city of Kiev and touched with the staff of his lance the Kievan golden throne. Like a fierce beast he leapt away from them at midnight, out of the white town, having enveloped himself in a blue mist.
Then at morn, he drove in his battle axes, opened the gates of Novgorod, shattered the glory of Yaroslav, and lo ...
See also:The Tale of Igor's Campaign, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - The plot, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Discovery and publication, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Reaction of 19th century scholars, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Authenticity, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Early reactions, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Modern developments, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Recent views Read more here: » The Tale of Igor's Campaign: Encyclopedia II - The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Reaction of 19th century scholars |
| |
|
| | | | The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Modern developments: 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 and school in Russia had been established back in the 12th century. The monks sold it to a local landowner, Aleksei Musin-Pushkin, as a part of a collection of ten texts. He realised the value of the book, and made a transcription for the empress Catherine the Great in 1795 or 96, and published it in 1800 with the help of leading Russian paleographers of the time, A. F. Malinovsky and N. N. Bantysh-Kamensk ...
See also:The Tale of Igor's Campaign, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - The plot, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Discovery and publication, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Reaction of 19th century scholars, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Authenticity, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Early reactions, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Modern developments, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Recent views Read more here: » The Tale of Igor's Campaign: Encyclopedia II - The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Discovery and publication |
| |
|
| | | | The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Modern developments: 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 of ancient Rus') against the Polovtsians or Cumans living in the southern part of the Don region in 1185. Other East Slavic historical figures are mentioned, including Vseslav of Polotsk, Yaroslav Osmomysl of Halych, and Vsevolod the Big Nest of Suzdal. The author appeals to the warring Russian princes, pleading for unity ...
See also:The Tale of Igor's Campaign, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - The plot, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Discovery and publication, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Reaction of 19th century scholars, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Authenticity, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Early reactions, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Modern developments, The Tale of Igor's Campaign - Recent views Read more here: » The Tale of Igor's Campaign: Encyclopedia II - The Tale of Igor's Campaign - The plot |
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
More material related to The Tale Of Igors Campaign can be found here:
|
|
|
|
| |
