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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 |