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| Preface | [v] |
| A Sketch of Russian Literature | [1] |
| I. The Oldest Period | [3] |
| II. The Folklore | [18] |
| III. The Eighteenth Century | [26] |
| The Oldest Period | [39] |
| Treaty with the Greeks (911) | [41] |
| Luká Zhidyáta (XI. c.) | [44] |
| Instruction to his Congregation | [44] |
| The Russian Code (XI. c.) | [45] |
| Ilarión, Metropolitan of Kíev (XI. c.) | [48] |
| Eulogy on St. Vladímir | [48] |
| Vladímir Monomákh (1053-1125) | [50] |
| His Instruction to his Children | [51] |
| Abbot Daniel, the Palmer (XII. c.) | [56] |
| Of the Holy Light, how it Descends from Heaven upon the Holy Sepulchre | [56] |
| Epilogue | [61] |
| Cyril, Bishop of Túrov (XII. c.) | [62] |
| From a Sermon on the First Sunday after Easter | [62] |
| Néstor’s Chronicle (XII. c.) | [65] |
| The Baptism of Vladímir and of all Russia | [65] |
| The Kíev Chronicle (XII. c.) | [71] |
| The Expedition of Ígor Svyatoslávich against the Pólovtses | [72] |
| The Word of Ígor’s Armament (XII. c.) | [80] |
| The Holy Virgin’s Descent into Hell (XII. c.) | [96] |
| Daniel the Prisoner (XIII. c.) | [100] |
| Letter to Prince Yarosláv Vsévolodovich | [101] |
| Serapión, Bishop of Vladímir (XIII. c.) | [104] |
| A Sermon on Omens | [104] |
| The Zadónshchina (XIV. c.) | [106] |
| Afanási Nikítin (XV. c.) | [111] |
| Travel to India | [111] |
| Apocryphal Legends about King Solomon (XV. c.) | [114] |
| The Story of Kitovrás | [114] |
| Prince Kúrbski (1528-1583) | [115] |
| The Storming of Kazán | [116] |
| Letter to Iván the Terrible | [118] |
| Iván the Terrible (1530-1584) | [121] |
| Letter to Prince Kúrbski | [121] |
| The Domostróy (XVI. c.) | [126] |
| How to Educate Children and Bring them up in the Fear of God | [126] |
| How to Teach Children and Save them through Fear | [127] |
| How Christians are to Cure Diseases and all Kinds of Ailments | [128] |
| The Wife is always and in all Things to Take Counsel with her Husband | [128] |
| How to Instruct Servants | [129] |
| Songs Collected by Richard James (1619-1620) | [130] |
| Incursion of the Crimean Tartars | [131] |
| The Song of the Princess Kséniya Borísovna | [132] |
| The Return of Patriarch Filarét to Moscow | [133] |
| Krizhánich (1617-1677) | [134] |
| Political Reasons for the Union of the Churches | [135] |
| On Knowledge | [136] |
| On Foreigners | [136] |
| Kotoshíkhin (1630-1667) | [136] |
| The Education of the Princes | [137] |
| The Private Life of the Boyárs and of other Ranks | [139] |
| Simeón Pólotski (1629-1680) | [149] |
| On the Birth of Peter the Great | [150] |
| An Evil Thought | [151] |
| The Magnet | [151] |
| The Story of Misery Luckless-Plight (XVII. or XVIII. c.) | [152] |
| The Folklore | [161] |
| Epic Songs | [163] |
| Volkh Vseslávevich | [163] |
| Ilyá of Múrom and Nightingale the Robber | [165] |
| Historical Songs | [172] |
| Yermák | [172] |
| The Boyár’s Execution | [174] |
| The Storming of Ázov | [176] |
| Folksongs | [177] |
| Kolyádka | [178] |
| Bowl-Song | [179] |
| A Parting Scene | [179] |
| The Dove | [180] |
| The Faithless Lover | [182] |
| Elegy | [182] |
| The Farewell | [183] |
| Sing, O sing again, lovely lark of mine | [184] |
| Wedding Gear | [185] |
| The Sale of the Braid | [185] |
| Marriage Song | [186] |
| Beggars’ Song | [186] |
| An Orphan’s Wailing | [187] |
| Conjuration of a Mother | [188] |
| Fairy Tales | [189] |
| Frost | [190] |
| The Cat, the Goat and the Ram | [195] |
| The Fox and the Peasant | [198] |
| Proverbs | [199] |
| The Eighteenth Century | [203] |
| Pososhkóv (1670-1726) | [205] |
| On Merchants | [205] |
| On the Peasantry | [209] |
| Prokopóvich (1681-1763) | [211] |
| The Spiritual Reglement | [212] |
| Funeral Sermon on Peter the Great | [214] |
| Tatíshchev (1686-1750) | [218] |
| From the “Russian History” | [219] |
| Kantemír (1708-1744) | [223] |
| To my Mind | [224] |
| Tredyakóvski (1703-1769) | [230] |
| Ode on the Surrender of Dantzig | [230] |
| Princess Dolgorúki (1714-1771) | [233] |
| From her “Memoirs” | [234] |
| Lomonósov (1711-1765) | [241] |
| Letters to I. I. Shuválov | [242] |
| Ode on the Capture of Khotín | [246] |
| Morning Meditations | [252] |
| Evening Meditations | [253] |
| Sumarókov (1718-1777) | [254] |
| The False Demetrius | [255] |
| Instruction to a Son | [257] |
| To the Corrupters of Language | [260] |
| The Helpful Gnat | [260] |
| Four Answers | [261] |
| Vasíli Máykov (1728-1778) | [263] |
| The Battle of the Zimogórans and Valdáyans | [263] |
| The Cook and the Tailor | [267] |
| Danílov (1722-1790) | [269] |
| From his “Memoirs” | [269] |
| Catherine the Great (1729-1796) | [272] |
| O Tempora | [272] |
| Prince Khlor | [276] |
| Shcherbátov (1733-1790) | [287] |
| On the Corruption of Manners in Russia | [287] |
| Petróv (1736-1799) | [291] |
| On the Victory of the Russian over the Turkish Fleet | [291] |
| Kheráskov (1733-1807) | [298] |
| The Rossiad | [298] |
| Metropolitan Platón (1737-1812) | [300] |
| What are Idolaters? | [300] |
| Address upon the Accession of Alexander I. | [304] |
| Khémnitser (1745-1784) | [306] |
| The Lion’s Council of State | [306] |
| The Metaphysician | [307] |
| Knyazhnín (1742-1791) | [308] |
| Vadím of Nóvgorod | [309] |
| Odd People | [311] |
| Princess Dáshkov (1743-1810) | [316] |
| The Establishment of a Russian Academy | [316] |
| Poroshín (1741-1769) | [321] |
| From his “Diary” | [321] |
| The Satirical Journals (1769-1774), and Nóvikov (1744-1818) | [326] |
| From All Kinds of Things | [328] |
| Sound Reasoning Adorns a Man | [329] |
| From the Drone | [332] |
| Recipe for His Excellency Mr. Lacksense | [332] |
| The Laughing Democritos | [333] |
| From Hell’s Post | [335] |
| From the Painter | [337] |
| Fon-Vízin (1744-1792) | [341] |
| The Minor | [342] |
| An Open-Hearted Confession | [351] |
| Letters to Count Pánin | [355] |
| Kostróv (1750-1796) | [358] |
| Letter to the Creator of the Ode in Praise of Felítsa | [359] |
| Radíshchev (1749-1802) | [361] |
| Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow | [362] |
| Ablesímov (1742-1783) | [370] |
| The Miller | [370] |
| Bogdanóvich (1743-1803) | [374] |
| Psyche. From Book I. | [374] |
| ” ” ” II. | [375] |
| Derzhávin (1743-1816) | [377] |
| Ode to the Deity | [379] |
| Monody on Prince Meshchérski | [382] |
| Felítsa | [385] |
| The Waterfall | [390] |
| The Storm | [391] |
| The Stream of Time | [392] |
| Neledínski-Melétski (1752-1829) | [392] |
| To the Streamlet I’ll Repair | [392] |
| He whose Soul from Sorrow Dreary | [394] |
| Muravév (1757-1807) | [395] |
| To the Goddess of the Nevá | [395] |
| Kapníst (1757-1824) | [397] |
| The Pettifoggery | [398] |
| Obúkhovka | [402] |
| On Julia’s Death | [404] |
| Gribóvski (1766-1833) | [405] |
| From his “Memoirs” | [405] |
| Kámenev (1772-1803) | [411] |
| Gromvál | [412] |
| Ózerov (1770-1816) | [418] |
| Dimítri Donskóy | [419] |
| Prince Dolgorúki (1764-1823) | [422] |
| The Legacy | [422] |
| My Moscow Fireplace | [425] |
| Dmítriev (1760-1837) | [428] |
| The Little Dove | [429] |
| During a Thunder-Storm | [430] |
| Ermák | [431] |
| What Others Say | [436] |
| Index | [441] |