Word about Igor's shelf

Pearls of secular literature of the Russian Middle Ages of the XII - XV centuries. The poetry “Zadonshchina” and the fierce “Tale of the Mamaev Battle”, the heartbreaking “Tale of Ryazan Batu” and the mysterious, full of literary riddles and secrets “The Word about Igor's Regiment”...

They were rewritten manually, manually, they were copied, They read and re -read, commented and discussed. Their manuscripts burned along with manors and monasteries, and individual copies survived only by a miracle - to convey to us not in dry and indifferent, but in the bright, emotional artistic perception of the nameless geniuses of the Russian word and the great and dramatic history of Rus' - with its feudal internodists and complex, ambiguous relations with the Great Cteadu, the national tragedy of the Mongol-Tatar yoke and the great national rise that allowed this to finally dump it.

works in which the past of Rus' comes to life.