Old Russian literature

In “Notes on Muscovy” the reader is presented with Russia during the time of Ivan the Terrible. The work is unusual in that it was written by... a tsar’s gua...

The library of the project “History of the Russian State” is the best monuments of world literature recommended by Boris Akunin, which reflect the biography ...

The collection includes masterpieces of ancient Russian literature, both well-known ones, for example, “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”, “Zadonshchina”, etc., a...

Andrei Mikhailovich Kurbsky came from a princely family. He was a member of what he called the “Chosen Rada,” a group of like-minded people and assistants to...

The publication contains the text of travel notes of the Chernigov hieromonk Ippolit Vishensky, who committed at the beginning of the 18th century. walking t...

From a long chain of nationally original works of Russian literature - “military” stories of the 11th-17th centuries. - the best ones were selected, combinin...

“The second collector of all the Russian lands” (according to Ivan Timofeev), the famous statesman Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible, was an outstanding writer o...

Domostroy, the first edition, is published according to the list of the Society of History and Antiquities of the Russian 60s. XVI century (Russian State Lib...

Pearls of secular literature of the Russian Middle Ages XII – XV centuries. The poetic “Zadonshchina” and the furious “The Tale of the Massacre of Mamayev”, ...

In this collective work, dedicated to the European nobility of the 16th-17th centuries, the following range of issues was chosen for research: Definition of ...