Russian Heroic Poetry

Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
I Volga Vseslavich or Svyatoslavich
II Volga and Mikula
III Mikula and Svyatogor
IV Svyatogor
V The Healing of Ilya of Murom
VI Ilya of Murom and his Quarrel with Vladimir
VII Ilya and Nightingale the Robber
VIII Alyosha Popovich
IX The Absence of Dobrynya
X The Youth of Churilo Plenkovich
XI Dyuk Stepanovich
XII Nightingale Budimirovich
XIII Staver
XIV Sadko, the Rich Merchant of Novgorod
XV Vasili Buslaev
XVI Vasili Buslaev
XVII The Princes of Tver
XVIII Prince Roman
XIX Prince Roman
XX Prince Danilo
XXI Prince Mikhailo
XXII Prince Dimitri
XXIII Prince Vasili
XXIV The Death of Prince Mikhailo
XXV The Capture of Kazan
XXVI Fedor Ivanovich and Boris Godunov: the Failure of the Crimean Tsar
XXVII The Tsar resolves to slay his Son
XXVIII Ermak the Cossack, Conqueror of Siberia
XIX The Tsar sends the Tsaritsa into a Convent
XXX The Death of the Terrible Tsar, Ivan Vasilevich
XXXI The Lament of the Tsaritsa for the Dead Tsar
XXXII Lament of the Troops on the Death of Ivan the Terrible
XXXIII The Murder of the Tsarevich Dimitri by Boris Godunov
XXXIV The Lament of Ksenya (daughter of Boris Godunov)
XXV The Lament of Ksenya (daughter of Boris Godunov)
XXXVI Grigori Otrepev (the ‘False Dimitri’) and Marina
XXXVII Vasili Shuyski
XXXVIII The Death of Skopin
XXXIX After the Death of Skopin
XL Prokop Lyapunov
XLI Kuzma Minin and Prince Pozharski. The Delivery of Moscow. The Election of Mikhailo Fedorovich
XLII Prince Simeon Romanovich Pozharski
XLIII The Battle of Astrakhan
XLIV The Entry of the Patriarch Filaret into Moscow
XLV The Birth of Peter the Great
XLVI The Sovereign wrestles with a Dragoon
XLVII The Tsar’s Voyage to Stockholm and his Return
XLVIII The Song of the Tsaritsa, Evdokya Fedorovna Lopukhina
XLIX The Execution of the Prince, the Great Boyar, Ataman of the Streltsy
L The Boyar’s Address to his Head
LI Sheremetev and Shlippenbach, Major of the Swedes, The Battle of Ehresfer
LII Lament of the Troops on the Death of Peter the Great
LIII Prince Vanya Dolgoruki and his young wife, the Boyarin Natalya Borisovna. The Execution of Prince Dolgoruki
LIV Krasnoshchokov and Frederick the Great
LV Lament of the Troops on the Death of the Empress Katharine II (1796)
LVI The Cossacks before the French
LVII The Invasion by the French under Napoleon (1812)
LVIII The Death of the Tsar Alexander I
LIX Lament of the Troops for the Tsar Alexander I
LX The Campaign of Nikolai I against Warsaw