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The Tale of Igor's Campaign

"The Tale of Igor's Campaign"

also: Слово о полку Игореве, Slovo o polku Igoreve

The celebrated anonymous Old East Slavic epic poem recounting Prince Igor Svyatoslavich's failed 1185 campaign against the Polovtsians. Chekhov urges Suvorin to publish it in the "Cheap Library" series as a textbook aid (\S11 of this letter), alongside "The Teaching of Vladimir Monomakh" and the "Domostroi."

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To A. S. Suvorin, 11 April 1889. Moscow. letter · 1 mention

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