Igor's Campaign, The Song of
- Igor's Campaign, The Song of
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also translated Lay of Igor's Campaign , Russian Slovo o polku Igoreve
masterpiece of Old Russian literature, an account of the unsuccessful campaign in 1185 of Prince Igor (
Igor Svyatoslavich) of Novgorod-Seversky against the Polovtsy (
Kipchak, or Cumans). As in the great French epic
The Song of Roland, Igor's heroic pride draws him into a combat in which the odds are too great for him. Though defeated, Igor escapes his captors and returns to his people. The tale was written anonymously (1185–87) and preserved in a single manuscript, which was discovered in 1795 by A.I. Musin-Pushkin, published in 1800, and lost during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812.
The tale is not easily classified; neither lyric nor epic, it is a blend of both, with a suggestion of the political pamphlet as well. It is the product of a writer familiar with oral poetry, chronicles, and historical narratives. It is distinguished principally by its modernity. The author's worldview is secular; Christianity is incidental to events.
The
Song alone of all Old Russian literature has become a national classic, one that is familiar to every educated Russian. An English translation of it by Vladimir Nabokov was published in 1960.
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