One of the greatest monuments of ancient Russian literature is published in Old-Slavonic with a parallel translation in modern Russian and a detailed commentary. In a well founded introduction the author defines more precisely the date of the Oration’s composition (1038) in connection with two significant anniversaries: the 50th anniversary of Rus’s Christening and the quincentenary of the consecration of St.
This book is the last in a series of collected monographs of St. Petersburg University in the morphology of Church Slavonic language of Russian hagiographic literature from the 15th to the early 17th centuries.
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