Part first.
HISTORY OF THE OLD OR CHURCH SLAVIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.
Home of the Old Slavic, [26].—Characteristics, [29].—Alphabet, [30].—Cyril and Methodius, [31].—Their translation of the Bible, [34].—Influence of the Old Slavic on the other dialects, [36].—Glagolitic alphabet, [37].—Dodrovsky's theory, [37].—THREE PERIODS, [34].—First Period, [39].—Second Period, [41].—Third Period, [42].—Present state, [45].
Part second.
EASTERN SLAVI.
CHAPTER I.
HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE.
Origin of the Russians, [47].—Periods, [49].—Language and dialects, [49].—Russian Proper, [49].—Malo-Russian, [50].—White Russian, [51].—FIRST PERIOD, [52].— SECOND PERIOD, [60].—Energy of Peter the Great, [60].—THIRD PERIOD, [65].—Lomonosof, [66].—FOURTH PERIOD, [72].—The emperor Alexander and his influence, [72].—Russian Bible Society, [74].—Karamzin, [76].—FIFTH PERIOD, [85].—The emperor Nicholas and his measures, [85]—Panslavism, [86].—Pushkin, [95]—Works on the Russian language, [101].
CHAPTER II.
HISTORY OF THE ILLYRICO-SERVIAN LANGUAGE.