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      CiceroCicero's philosophical worksRussian translation from Latin, Medieval syntaxAndrej Kurbskij
The “Novyj Margarit” is an anthology of religious texts that are mostly Church Slavonic translations from Latin that were produced under the direction of Prince Andrej Kurbskij in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th century. A... more
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      Historical LinguisticsLanguage Variation and ChangeHistorical SyntaxBelarusian Studies
In April 1564 the prince Andrej Michajlovič Kurbskij, one of the Tsar’s generals engaged in the Livonian war (1558-1583), defected to Lithuania and entered the service of King Sigismund II. Immediately afterwards there ensued a... more
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      EpistolographyLatin epistolographyIvan the TerribleCicerone
The literary topoi and allusions to the victim and sacrifice in the biblical and historical context at the same time played a great role for Andrey Kurbsky as a traditionalist and innovator writer in the embodiment of the complex author’s... more
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      MartyrdomSacrificeIvan the TerribleAndrej Kurbskij
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      Russian StudiesMedieval HistoryEarly Modern HistoryMedieval Studies
The third letter of Prince Andrey Mikhailovich Kurbsky to Tsar Ivan the Terrible, dated 1579, contains an extremely curious translation of two of Cicero's Stoic Paradoxes. The Slavic text is a literal translation of the Latin original,... more
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      Russian StudiesLatin languagesCiceroRussian Language
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      CiceroAndrej KurbskijParadoxa Stoicorum
The article explores changes in the use of the categories of victim and sacrifice in political literary artefacts in the second half of the 16th century: namely, the correspondence between Ivan the Terrible and Andrey Kurbsky and... more
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      SacrificeVictimIvan the TerribleAndrej Kurbskij
Настоящая статья посвящена исследованию исторической эволюции архетипа антихриста в русской культуре. В хронологическом порядке рассматриваются все те произведения литературы и искусства, в которых появляется данный архетип, а также... more
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      Russian StudiesRussian LiteratureEschatology and ApocalypticismArchetypes