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Primary Sources: Medieval Old Russian Texts and Russian and English Translations
English Translations - Paper Editions
English Translations (Print)
Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles and Tales by Call Number: PG3130 .Z4 1974x (Watson Library - 2 1/2 West Stacks)ISBN: 0525473637Publication Date: 1974
Medieval Russia by Call Number: DK3 .D57 1991 (Watson Library - 1 1/2 East Stacks)ISBN: 0030334225Publication Date: 1991The Library also has a 1973 edition.
Chronicle of Novgorod, 1016-1471 by Call Number: DK70 .N57 1970ISBN: 0875690173Publication Date: 1970
Readings in Russian Civilization by Call Number: DK4 .R52 1969Publication Date: 1969v. 1. Russia before Peter the Great, 900-1700.
v. 2. Imperial Russia, 1700-1917.
v. 3. Soviet Russia, 1917-Present.
Readings in Russian History from Ancient Times to the Post-Stalin Era by Call Number: DK3 .W3 1963Publication Date: 1963v. 1. From ancient times to the eighteenth century.
v. 2. From the reign of Paul to Alexander III.
v. 3. The revolutionary era and the Soviet period.
English Translations - Digital Editions
English Translations (Digital)
- Medieval Russian Manuscripts and Primary SourcesA portal to medieval Russian manuscripts and primary sources in Russian and English translation.
- The Life of Saint Aleksandr Nevskii: A Sixteenth Century Account of a Russian HeroStory of Aleksandr Nevskii, war hero and statesman of medieval Novgorod, as recorded in the 16th Century Russian Illustrated Chronicle.
- The Chronicle of Novgorod 1016-1471
1914 translation by Michell and Forbes (PDF). - Translations of the Laws of Rus'
Short Pravda Russkaia, Expanded Pravda Russkaia, Statute of Grand Prince Volodimir, Statute of Grand Prince Iaroslav, Statutory Charter of Novgorod Prince Sviatoslav Ol'govich, Novgorod's Treaty with Tver' Grand Prince Iaroslav Iaroslavich, Novgorod Judicial Charter, Pskov Judicial Charter, Pravosudie mitropolich'e. - Rude & Barbarous KingdomRussia in the Accounts of Sixteenth-Century English Voyagers / edited by Lloyd E. Berry and Robert O. Crummey. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968.
Russian Texts
Russian Texts
Lit︠s︡evoĭ letopisnyĭ svod XVI veka. Russkai︠a︡ letopisnai︠a︡ istorii︠a︡ by Call Number: folio DK70 .L5 2009ISBN: 9785911420017Publication Date: 200916th Century Illustrated Chronicle: Russian History Chronicle
- Древнерусская литература: библиотека текстов XI-XVII веков
Landmark old Russian texts from the 11th-17th centuries. - Домострой
Original text, modern Russian translation, and parallel texts of both. Produced by the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. - Исторические источники по Отечественной истории до начала XVIII в. на русском языке в Интернете
Digital Library of the History department of Moscow State University (M. V. Lomonosov). - Skazanie o Mamaevom Poboishche (The Tale of the Rout of Mamai)
The Skazanie is a romance composed in the 15th century, relating the struggle of the Muscovian Grand Prince, Dmitri Donskoj, against his Tartar opponent, Mamai. The central focus is the battle of Kulikovo (1380) at which Mamai was routed. The victory is presented in the context of a crusade and is couched in terms reminiscent of the contest between Gideon and the Midianites (Judges 7).
Pamiatniki literatury Drevnei Rusi: XIV-seredina XV veka by Call Number: PG3223 .P293 1981Publication Date: 1981A series of published primary sources in the original Old Russian and in modern Russian translation.