Preface -- CONTENTS -- I. THE PREHISTORIC PERIOD -- II. TRANSLATED AND BORROWED LITERATURE -- III. THE PERIOD OF STYLISTIC SIMPLICITY (The Early Middle Ages) -- 1. Characteristics -- 2. Sermons -- 3. Hagiographic Literature (the Lives) -- 4. The Tales -- 5. The Chronicle -- 6. The Pilgrimage of Abbot Daniil -- 7. Works of Prince Vladimir Monomach -- 8. The Izbornik of 1076 -- 9. The Question of the Old Russian Epos -- 10. Various Works -- IV. THE AGE OF ORNAMENTAL STYLE (12th-13th centuries) -- 1. Characteristics -- 2. Sermons -- 3. The Tales -- 4. Hagiographic Literature -- 5. The Chronicles -- 6. The Remains of the Epos -- 7. The Tale of Igor's Campaign -- 8. Stories of Tatar Invasion -- 9. The Supplication of Daniil -- 10. Adam's Speech to Lazarus -- 11. Secular Biography -- 12. Various Works -- V. THE PERIOD OF SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE -- 1. Characterics -- 2. Translated and Borrowed Literature -- 3. Sermons -- 4. Lives of the Saints -- 5. Secular Biography -- 6. The Tales -- 7. The Chronicles -- 8. Travellers' Tales -- 9. Historical Songs -- 10. The Spiritual Crisis of the Fifteenth Century -- 11. Various Works -- VI. MUSCOVITE LITERATURE -- 1. Characteristics -- 2. Translated Literature -- 3. Hagiographic Literature -- 4. The Tales -- 5. The Chronicles -- 6. Travellers' Tales -- 7. Polemical Writings -- 8. Metropolitan Daniil -- 9. Maksim Grek -- 10. Encyclopaedical Works - Metropolitan Makarij -- 11. From the Folklore of the 16th Century -- 12. Other Works -- 13. Literature during and after the Interregnum -- VII. THE BAROQUE -- 1. Characteristics -- 2. Translated Literature (17th Century) -- 3. Hagiographic Literature -- 4. The Tales -- 5. Simeon Polockij -- 6. The Ukrainians in Moscow -- 7. The Schism (raskol) -- 8. Kosma Grek -- 9. The Theatre -- 10. Translated Literature in the Petrine Period -- 11. The Tales -- 12. Kantemir.

13. Trediakovskij and Verse Reform -- 14. Michail Vasil'evic Lomonosov -- 15. Other Literary Works -- 16. The End of the Baroque.