Igor's Campaign (Old Russian – Chinese Parallel Translation)

Author: Li Xiyun
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: Igor's Campaign is a 12th-century Glyos literary work. Written shortly after the expedition of Igor Svyatoslavich against the Polovtsians (1185) at the Novgorod-Seversky Congress (1185), it was composed by an anonymous author based on vivid historical memories. Regarding the patriotic ideas in The Campaign, Marx pointed out, "The essence of this epic is to call upon the Russian princes to unite in the face of an imminent invasion by a large force of true Mongols. 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 Igor based on the plot of The Campaign.