War tales of ancient Rus

From the long chain of the national-distinctive works of Russian literature - the military ages of the XI-XVII centuries. - The best, combining the skill of the image of battle paintings with an understanding of the socio-political meaning of the events described, is selected. "The story of the ruin of Ryazan in Batym in 1237", arbitrarily reduced by I.I. Sonznevsky from different lists, was published in 1867 and was then reprinted in different texts. The text "words about the Kulikovsky battle ..." Reconstructed V.P. Adriano-Peretts based on the most authoritative list of the State Historical Museum with corrections for the remaining five lists. "The story of the Azov Take ..." first was published by M.M. Scherbatov in 1771, but the critical edition was carried out by A.S. Orlov in 1906 for this publication, the texts of the TAns were subjected to a new archeographic study and reconstruction on handwritten sources