Igor's Expedition (Cyrillic-Chinese-Chinese Contrastive Translation)

Author: Li Xiyun
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: Igor's Campaign is a 12th-century Glyazev literary work. Written shortly after the Novgorod-Seversky Congress (1185) and Igor Svyatoslavich's expedition against the Polovtsians (1185), it was composed by an anonymous author based on fresh memories of the historical events. Regarding the patriotic ideas in The Campaign, Marx pointed out, "The essence of this epic is to call upon the Russian princes to unite against the onslaught of a large Mongol army. The Campaign is a lyrical narrative work, proving that Russia in the 11th-12th centuries had already achieved a high level of cultural and artistic achievement. Poets such as B.A. Zhukovsky, K.D. Bar, and H.A. Zabolotsky adapted The Campaign into poetry. A.P. Polotin composed an opera titled Prince Igor based on the plot of The Campaign.