PROBLEMS OF THE INTERPRETING OLD RUSSIAN LITERATURE MONUMENTS   
Anatoly S. Demin

From Research on the Literary Hermeneutics

9
 

1. On the Expressive Bilingualism of Afanasy Nikitin

11
 

2. The Fantastic Meaning of Absurdities and Illogisms in Old Russian literature
of the 15th–17th Centuries

18
 

3. Poems in the Collections of the 17th Century from N.S. Tikhonravov Collection

36
 

4. The Phenomenon of Pictorial Narration in Old Russian Manuscript Collections
of the 17th Century (by N.S. Tikhonravov Collection)

52
 

Appendix 1. Description of the Collection (RSL, N.S. Tikhonravov Collection, no. 231)

62
 

Appendix 2. A Parable about the Composition of a Human Being)

65
 

Addition 1. RSAAA Manuscript, MMA no. 250–455

65
 

Addition 2. RSL Manuscript, Bolshakov Collection, no. 325

69
 

5. Crime in Old Russian Proverbs and Sayings

72
 

6. Avvakum about his Writing (from Brevity to Extensiveness)

75
Andrey M. Ranchin To the Question of the Works of Borisoglebian Cycle as Historical Sources 85
Vladimir M. Kirillin Representations about Saint Vladimir, Vladimir the Great in the Moscow
Centralized State Epoch
120
Kiyoharu Miura How to Read the Word for Lazarus Resurrection? On the Question of Old Russian
Myth-Making and Religious Imagination in the Slavic Medieval Apocrypha World
154
Alexey I. Popovich Allusions to the Victim and Sacrifice in the Andrey Kurbsky’s
History and Reception of the 17th — Early 18th Centuries
186
Mikhail Yu. Ljustrov   Magpie, Speaking in Hebrew, and a Jewish Monk: on a Contradiction in the Russian Translation of the
Story of the Seven Wise Men
208
  POETICS OF OLD RUSSIAN LITERATURE  
Nina V. Trofimova

Peculiarity of the Holy Scriptures Citation in the Galician-Volynian Chronicle

223 
Alexander. А. Medvedev 

On the Posthumous Miracles of Moscow Metropolitan Peter in the 15th–16th Centuries Chronicles

239 
Neža Zajc

On the Origins of the Monastic Worldview of St. Maximus the Greek
(On the 550th Anniversary of His Birth)

250
Andrey V. Karavashkin

Letters of Ivan IV the Terrible (Architectonics and Suggestion Techniques)

273
Olga A. Tufanova

The Parables in Ivan Timofeev’s Temporary: Typology and Artistic Specific

292
Marianna V. Kaplun

The Elements of Expressiveness in the Youth Dialogue about Feast of the Nativity

314
  CODICOLOGY. TEXTOLOGY. EDITION  
Marina V. Chistiakova

Attributing Sources of Sermons of the Pskov Edition of the Prologue

327
Olesya V. Gladkova

On Some Features of the Text Division of the Tale from
Lives of Peter and Fevronia of Murom by Hermolaus-Erasmus
(On the Material of List no. 287/307 of RNL Solovetsky Manuscript Collection)

352

Yevgeny A. Lyakhovitsky,
Ekaterina S. Simonova,
Mikhail A. Shibaev

The Experiment of Technological and Codicological Research of Old Russian
Parchment Manuscripts of the Second Half of the 13th–14th Centuries

371
Liudmila B. Sukina On a Special Edition of Manuscript Synodikoses — Literary Collectionsof the 18th Century 391
Nikita V. Belov

The Chronicler of Sablins Merchants — Unknown Monument of
Ustyug Chronicles of the Last Quarter of the 17th — First Half of the 18th Centuries

408
  Appendix. Sablins Chronicler 419
Vasiliy N. Matonin,
Natalya N. Bedina

The Fatherland Theme in the 18th Century Patriotic Discourse (On the Example of the
Divine Service of Thanksgiving on the Great God-Given Victory at Poltava)

423
 

Appendix. Divine Service of Thanksgiving on the Great God-Given Victory at Poltava

441
   ARTS AND BOOKLORE  
Galina M. Zelenskaya,
Svetlana K. Sevastyanova

Corpus of Patriarch Nikon’s Inscriptions on “Sacred Things”:
Questions of Textology and Architectural and Artistic Design

479
Maria V. Antonova,
Marianna A. Komova

The Legend of Conception of Svensky Monastery and the Icon of Our Lady of Pechersk Svensk:
Text History, Poetics and Iconography

548
 

Appendix. 
Legend of Conception of Svensky Monastery

572
 

Tale of Svensky Icon of Our Lady

576
Galina A. Pozhidaeva

Significance of the Russian Medieval Sacred Music for the Russian Musical Classics

579
  MEDIEVALISM AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE  
Irina Marchesini Between Modernity and Tradition. Sasha Sokolov’s Works and its Connection
with the Old Russian Literature
595
Alexander A. Shaikin

Alexander the Great and the Characters of a Novel Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin

611
  ANNIVERSARY  
  Interview of Vladimir M. Kirillin, DSc in Philology.
(Interviewed by E.G. Malyuta)
623
  Chronological List of Scientific, Popular-Science and Methodological
Publications of Vladimir M. Kirillin, DSc in Philology
635
  Conditional Abbreviations 644