The collection includes 15 works by a prominent Soviet orientalist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Nina Viktorovna Pigulevskaya (1894-1970): research articles on the history and cultural history of the Middle East, Byzantium and the Slavs, as well as translations of monuments of Syrian literature. Some of the materials in the collection are among the latest works of N.V. Pigulevskaya, which were not published during her lifetime; other works were previously included in various foreign collections and are published in Russian for the first time in this edition. The collection also contains a scientific biography of N.V. Pigulevskaya and a complete bibliography of her works.

Contents: Foreword Nina Viktorovna Pigulevskaya (G. D. Kurbatov, A. G. Lundin, A. V. Paykova, K. B . Starkov)List of printed works of Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences N.V. Pigulevskaya (A.G. Lundin and E.N. Meshcherskaya)Editor-in-Chief B.B.Piotrovsky.

FROM N.V.’S SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE PIGULEVSKAYA1. “Silk Road” (Problems of economic and cultural relations between East and West)2. Mesopotamia in the Hellenistic and Parthian eras3. From the history of social and religious movements in Palestine in the Roman era4. Chronicle of pseudo-Dionysius of Telmahr about South Arabia5. Byzantine sayings6. Byzantium and the Slavs7. Syrian chronicle of the 6th century. about Slavic tribes8. Chronography of Theophanes and Syrian Chronicles9. About the Syriac manuscript of “Ecclesiastical History” by Eusebius of Caesarea in the Russian Public Library10. Syrian culture of the Middle Ages and its historical significance11. Martyrius of Cyriacus of Jerusalem12. On the historical significance of the inscription RES 433713. Syriac text and Greek translation of the martyrium of Tarbo14. A note on the relations between Byzantium and the Huns in the 6th century.15. Syro-Palestinian fragments of Psalms 123-124Notes