Zadonshchina
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Zadonshchina is a Russian literary monument of the late 14th century, which tells of the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380.
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Old East Slavic
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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
Zadonshchina
…The Tale of Igor's Campaign was written based on poetic images and ideas from Zadonshchina. They proposed that The Tale of Igor's Campaign was not an Old Russian text, but an 18th-century forgery. This approach is criticized by linguists, notably Roman Jakobson and Andrey Zaliznyak who show that the language of…
Sheet from the Radziwiłł Chronicle
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