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Encyclopedia > Tale of Igor's Campaign

The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Old East Slavic: Слово о плъку Игоревѣ, Slovo o pălku Igorevě; Modern Russian: Слово о полку Игореве, Slovo o polku Igoreve) is an anonymous masterpiece of East Slavic literature written in Old East Slavic language and tentatively dated by the end of 12th century. It is also occasionally translated as The Song of Igor's Campaign and The Lay of Igor's Campaign. The Ukrainian sources transliterate the name as Ihor. Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... Russian (русский язык  listen?) is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. ... The Slavic peoples are the most numerous ethnic and linguistic body of peoples in Europe. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ... Ukrainian is an East Slavic language, one of three members of this language group, the other two being Russian and Belarusian. ...


Many things are still disputed about the work: its originality, whether it is an epic or a literary work, as well as interpretations of many phrases. Part of the problem is that the known texts of this work were copied by hand and not without mistakes. An older copy from Pskov perhaps dating to the 1400s, found by Aleksei Musin-Pushkin in 1792, served as a source for a later copy published in Moscow around 1800. EPIC might be an acronym or abbreviation for: Electronic Privacy Information Center Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing Enhanced Programmable ircII Client El Paso Intelligence Center End Poverty In California European Privatisation and Investment Corporation Sometimes it is also used to refer to Epic Games game development company. ... Categories: Russia geography stubs | Cities in Russia ... Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century Decades: 1350s 1360s 1370s 1380s 1390s - 1400s - 1410s 1420s 1430s 1440s 1450s Years: 1400 1401 1402 1403 1404 1405 1406 1407 1408 1409 Events and Trends Categories: 1400s ... Aleksei Ivanovich Musin-Pushkin (1744 — 1817), count since 1797, statesman, historian and art colector. ... Saint Basils Cathedral Moscow  listen? ( Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, pronunciation: Moskva), capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ... 1800 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...


The only old copy was claimed to have been burned in 1812 during conflagration in Moscow, seized by Napoléon's troops. The lack of an original copy and comparisons with contemporary fabrications (for example, the "Songs of Ossian" were actually written by James Macpherson) created doubts in the work's authenticity. Some researchers still today propose Aleksei Musin-Pushkin, who found the manuscript, or the Russian manuscript forgers Anton Bardin and Alexander Sulakadzev as candidates for the falsification. (Bardin was publicly exposed as the forger of four other copies of 'Slovo'.) The famous Russian journalist and orientalist Ossip Senkovsky argued that 'Slovo' was a hoax of the beginning of the 18th century. Nonetheless, majority opinion accepts the authenticity of the text, based on its language. Events January 1 - the Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, the Austrian civil code enters into force in the Austrian Empire February 2 - Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California February 7 - The strongest in a series of massive earthquakes near New Madrid, Missouri, est. ... Saint Basils Cathedral Moscow  listen? ( Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, pronunciation: Moskva), capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ... James Macpherson (October 27, 1736–February 17, 1796), was a Scottish poet, known as the translator of the Ossianic poems. ... Aleksei Ivanovich Musin-Pushkin (1744 — 1817), count since 1797, statesman, historian and art colector. ...


The release of this historical work into scholarly circulation created quite a stir in Russian literary circles. The dominant historical linguistic ideology of the era recognized one East Slavic language: Russian. The recognition of the language of this newly uncovered antiquity as non-Russian raised puzzling questions. The fall-back assumption that Old Slavonic would have been used, did not fit the liguistic evidence in the text: there were some Old Slavonic elements, but not the organic Old Slavonic language. Scholars uncovered words from Polish, too. The document could not be made to fit the historical linguistic schema of scholars of the Imperial Russia. Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start...


As the "Lay of Igor's Campaign" spread into wider circles of scholarly philology, the problem lessened somewhat. Scholars in the Austrian Empire found, upon linguistic analysis, that the document contained transitional language between a) earlier fragments of the language of Rus' propria (the region of Chernihiv, eastward through Kyiv, and into Halych) and, b) later fragments from the Halych-Volynian era of this same region in the centuries immediately following the writing of the document. These historical fragments showed large linguistic differences with the fragments from the areas of Suzdal and Novgorod to the north during the same time period. Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire until 1867 and of the Austrian part of Austria_Hungary until 1918. ... Ruthenia is a name applied to parts of Eastern Europe which were populated by Eastern Slavic peoples, as well as to various states that existed in this territory in the past. ... Chernihiv (Чернігів in Ukraine. ... Kiev (Київ, Kyiv, in Ukrainian; Киев, Kiev, in Russian) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper river. ... Halych (Галич in Ukrainian or Russian [pronounced Halych and Galich]; Halicz in Polish; העליטש [Helitsh or Heylitsh] in Yiddish) is a town in Ukraine. ... Halych-Volynia principality was the Ruthenian successor state of Kievan Rus on the territory of Rus menora (Rus propria) including the lands of Red Ruthenia, Black Ruthenia, and the remainder of southwestern Rus. This state also briefly controlled the region of Bessarabia and Moldavia. ... Suzdal (Су́здаль) is a town in Vladimir Oblast, Russia. ... For other cities named Novgorod see Novgorod (disambiguation). ...


The plot of this classic work is based on a failed raid of Kniaz Igor Svyatoslavich of Novhorod-Siverskyy (of the Chernihiv principality of ancient Rus') against the Polovtsians or Cumans living in the southern part of the Don region in 1185. Other East Slavic historical figures are mentioned, including Yaroslav Osmomysl (the eight-tongued) of Halych, and Mstyslav of Tmutorokan. Kniaz’ or knyaz (князь in Russian and Ukrainian; cneaz in Romanian fem. ... Chernihiv (Чернігів in Ukraine. ... The Cumans, also known as Polovtsy (Slavic for yellowish) were a nomadic West Turkic tribe living on the north of the Black Sea along the Volga. ... There are several rivers named Don: Don River, Russia, one of the main rivers of Russia. ... Events April 25 - Genpei War - Sea Battle of Dan-no-ura leads to Minamoto victory in Japan Templars settle in London and begin the building of New Temple Church End of the Heian Period and beginning of the Kamakura period in Japan. ... Halych (Галич in Ukrainian or Russian [pronounced Halych and Galich]; Halicz in Polish; העליטש [Helitsh or Heylitsh] in Yiddish) is a town in Ukraine. ...


The standard Soviet edition of 'Slovo' was prepared, with an extended commentary, by the academician Dmitry Likhachev. In the Soviet Union, any attempts to question authenticity of 'Slovo' (for example, those by French Slavist André Mazon, as well as by Alexander Zimin and Oljas Suleimenov), were officially condemned. Vladimir Nabokov produced a translation into English in 1960. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) .( Russian: Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик (СССР)  listen?; tr. ... This page is about the novelist. ...


In his article "Was Iaroslav of Halych really shooting sultans in 1185?" Edward Keenan, a well-known linguist from Harvard, states that Igor's Tale is a fake, written by Czech linguist Dabrowski. There are other linguists who question the authenticity of Igor's Tale.


See also

Prince Igor (Князь Игорь) is an opera in a prologue and four acts by Alexander Borodin (music and libretto). ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ...

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