The Tale of Igor's Campaign
The Tale of Igor's Campaign or The Tale of Ihor's Campaign 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 Campaign, The Lay of Igor's Campaign, The Lay of the Host of Igor, and The Lay of the Warfare Waged by Igor.
The field of Igor Svyatoslavich's battle with the Polovtsy (1880) by Viktor Vasnetsov.
Soviet Russian artist Ivan Bilibin's illustration to the tale, 1941
Full PDF of the first publication of The Tale of Igor's Campaign (Moscow 1800) by Aleksei Musin-Pushkin
Old East Slavic was a language used by the East Slavs from the 7th or 8th century to the 13th or 14th century, until it diverged into the Russian and Ruthenian languages. Ruthenian eventually evolved into the Belarusian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian languages.
A page from Svyatoslav's Miscellanies (1073).
Ostromir Gospels from Novgorod, dating to 1056 or 1057
Literate 14th-century Novgorodians sent each other letters written on birch bark
First page of the tenth-century Novgorod Codex, thought to be the oldest East Slavic book in existence