Ob’shtee zhitie

This feature, "ОБЬЩЕѤ ЖИТИѤ" [Ob'shtee zhitie], provides a list of ongoing projects and recent publications of scholars in the field of Early Slavic studies, arranged alphabetically by the country in which they work. Represented in this issue are reports from Canada, Great Britain, Hungary, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, the Soviet Union, the United States of America, and Yugoslavia.In this feature, scholars have submitted lists of their publications or announced current projects underway. William R. Veder's report (82-84), however, also includes "Notes on an Archaeographic Expedition to Leningrad and Moscow (19 APr - 26 May 1982)." There are interesting editorial comments in a number of the entries and the two institutional reports concern access to the repositories' manuscripts. Regarding the Lenin Library (86): "The 'Literaturnaia gazeta' of 15 Sept 1982 contained a letter to the editors ... voicing serious concern with the effects of work in progress in the new metro-station 'Borovickaia' on the Pashkov House, where the Manuscript department is housed in one of the wings. If the Pashkov house were to suffer damage and need extensive repairs, the consequences for work on the manuscripts would be as serious as the recent 1 1/2 years' closure." The report from the State Historical Museum indicates that it will be closed for extensive renovation for as many as three years (86)

Chronicle: 22-24 September 1981, Leningrad: Questions of the Slavo-Russian Manuscript Heritage

This feature "ЛѢТОПИСЬ" ('Chronicle') reports on recent events in the field of Early Slavic studies, e.g., celebrations, conferences, symposia, announcements of forthcoming colloquia, and past study groups, etc.Iaroslav Shchapov provided the editors of Polata with a list of the presenters and paper topics from a September 1981 conference on questions of the Slavo-Russian manuscript heritage that was held in the Soviet Union. Presenters were from Armenia, Russia, and Georgia, and some of the topics included the Kormchaia of Ivan Volk Kuricyn, the Izbornik of 1073, the Tale of Nestor Iskander, the Kazanskaia Istoriia, Slovo o polku Igoreve, Mercurius of Smolensk, Prince A.M. Kurbskii, Physiologus and its textual tradition in Old Russian, the Tale of Aphroditianus the Persian, the apocrypha 'Khozhdenie Bogoroditsy po mukam," Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite, Georgian Hagiography, Maksim Grek, the life of Martyrianus of Belozersk, the life of Anthony of Rome, and the Tale of Temir-Aksak