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The Tale of Igor's Campaign. The Tale of Igor's Campaign or The Tale of Ihor's Campaign[ 1 ] (Old East Slavic: Слово о пълкѹ Игоревѣ, romanized:Slovo o pŭlku Igorevě) is an anonymous epic poem written in the Old East Slavic language. The title is occasionally translated as The Tale of the Campaign of Igor, The Song of Igor's ...
Igor was the elder son of Svyatoslav Olgovich, by his second wife, the Novgorodian Catherine. By giving the child the baptismal name of Yury, Svyatoslav Olgovich acknowledged his friendship with prince Yury Vladimirovich of Suzdal. [ 2 ] In choosing Igor for the boy's princely name, he testified to the close bond that had existed between him ...
Prince Igor (Russian: Князь Игорь, romanized: Knyaz Igor, listen ⓘ) is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander Borodin.The composer adapted the libretto from the early Russian epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts the campaign of the 12th-century prince Igor Svyatoslavich against the invading Cuman ("Polovtsian") tribes in 1185. [1]
[11]: 21, 22 Igor Svyatoslavich, prince of the Principality of Novgorod-Seversk, attacked the Cumans in the vicinity of the Kayala river in 1185 but was defeated; this battle was immortalized in the Rus' epic poem The Tale of Igor's Campaign, and Alexander Borodin's opera, Prince Igor. The dynamic pattern of attacks and counterattacks between ...
The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England. " Do not stand by my grave and weep " is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem " Immortality ", presumably written by Clare Harner in 1934. Often now used is a slight variant: "Do not stand at my grave and weep".
This, Sorley's last poem, was recovered from his kit after his death. It was untitled, and so is commonly known by its incipit, or other titles. It is generally interpreted as a rebuttal to Rupert Brooke's 1915 sonnet "The Soldier."
The following year, Könchek defeated the prince Igor Svyatoslavich, who was taken prisoner near the Kaiala river (possibly modern Kalmius river). [2] Igor's campaign against Könchek became the subject of an epic poem, The Tale of Igor's Campaign. Könchek died in 1187.
Vsevolod IV Svyatoslavich the Red (Russian: Вcеволод Святославич Чермный, romanized: Vsevolod Svyatoslavich Chermnyi) or Vsevolod Chermnyi[1] (died August 1212) was Grand Prince of Kiev (1203; 1206; 1207; 1208–1212). He was also Prince of Chernigov (1204–1206/1208) and Belgorod Kievsky (1205). [2] His baptismal name ...