In 1156, three large feudal houses (Fujiwara, Taira and Minamoto) clashed with each other in a struggle for supreme power. The fourth side of the struggle we...

This publication is the first complete translation into Russian of the Rig Veda, an ancient collection of poetic hymns addressed to the gods of the Aryan tri...

This publication is the first complete translation into Russian of the Rig Veda, an ancient collection of poetic hymns addressed to the gods of the Aryan tri...

This publication is the first complete translation into Russian of the Rig Veda, an ancient collection of poetic hymns addressed to the gods of the Aryan tri...

The eighth book “On Karna (Karnaparva)” is one of the most representative among the battle books of the ancient Indian epic “Mahabharata”. In addition to des...

Bhishmaparva is the sixth book of the Mahabharata. With it begins the description of the great battle of Kurukshetra, which forms the central part of the anc...

This book is a continuation of many years of work begun at the Russian Academy of Sciences more than half a century ago to create a complete, academic transl...

Books X and XI of the Mahabharata describe the events taking place immediately after the end of the great battle of the peoples of the entire Indian subconti...

The book contains translations of twenty edifying texts preserved in the oldest Pahlavi manuscript of the 14th century, and commentaries on them. These combi...

A monument to the genre of “war stories” (“gunki-monogatari”), “The Tale of the Troubles of the Heiji Years” (“Heiji-monogatari”, 13th century) describes one...

The collection “Faithful Chunghyang” presents Korean classic stories of the 17th-19th centuries. Among them are social utopian, satirical, family and everyda...

The book publishes for the first time a manuscript from the collection of the St. Petersburg branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Acade...