Слово о полку Игореве - Часть 2 - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

“The word about Igor’s regiment” is a work that sheds the light on the ancient Russian culture and the events of Ancient Russia.

The Word of Igor Regiment describes the unsuccessful campaign on the Polovtsy Novgorod-Seversky Prince Igor Svyatoslavich in alliance with Vsevolod, Vladimir and Svyatoslav Olgovich (1185).

By the time of writing "Word" is attributed to 1187-1188.

It all started with the fact that Alexey Ivanovich Musin-Pushkin (1744-1817) was carried away by the collection of antiquities. Empress Catherine the Great liked his collection, and she appointed the count chief prosecutor of the Synod.

By her next decree, she ordered the ancient manuscripts and old printed books from all the churches and monasteries of Russia in the Synod.

Musin-Pushkin prepared the ancient manuscripts for the press and in 1800 the line came to the “word”, which had to be translated from the Old Russian language into the language in which they spoke in the 18th century. Musin -Pushkin immediately realized - the poem was unique. She crossed out the widespread opinion that Russians had no social literature before. It was necessary to comprehend the events described in the “Word” very important for history.

Musin-Pushkin's contemporaries did not understand what treasure was the property of Russian culture. Immediately rumors began to spread that it was a fake. The first who sharply opposed the rumors was Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. The great poet said that, firstly, in order to fake a poem of the XII century, it is necessary not only the ability to read, but also to write freely in the Old Russian language. Secondly, you need to know the names of the ancient gods and princes. Thirdly, it is necessary to have a considerable literary gift. If such a person lived in Russia in the late XVIII - beginning of the XIX century, then the name of this historian and the poet would be known to everyone. But there was no such person in those days, then the “word about Igor’s regiment” was beyond the power of anyone.

“The Word of Igor’s Regiment” has been translated many times. Among the translators were our outstanding poets Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky, Apollo Nikolaevich Maikov and Nikolai Alekseevich Zabolotsky.

The Old Russian text "Words" is divided into paragraphs and rhythmic units. There was no this breakdown in the genuine manuscript of the “word”, because In Russian manuscripts of the XI-XVII centuries, the text (including poetic) was written in a continuous line.

The campaign of Prince Igor against the Polovtsy was depicted on their canvases by great artists: Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, Vasily Grigoryevich Perov, Vladimir Andreevich Favorsky. Composer Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin began work on the opera Prince Igor, who, due to the death of the composer, was completed by two outstanding Russian composers Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov. This musical work has become a model of the national heroic epic in opera art.