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Polemic

Irina I. Makeeva. The Kiev Redaction of the Cycle of Seven-Day Prayers by Cyril of Turov 7

Tatiana I. Afanasyeva. Further Notes on the Textual Study of the Cycle of Prayers by Cyril of Turov 23

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Denis G. Khrustalev. Research on the Toponyms of Afanasy Nikitin: Dega 49

Guo Yunfan. Spiridon-Savva and the Tale of the Descendants of Augustus and the Gifts of Vladimir Monomakh: Authorship, Textology, and Ideology 83

Dmitrii M. Bulanin. Literary Prehistory of the Council of 1553–1554 (Moscow Echoes of Byzantine Historiosophy) 98

Elena V. Belyakova. From the History of the Distribution of the Three-Part Canonical Miscellany (The Alphabetical Syntagma of Matthew  Blastares, the Pseudozonar, and the Nomocanon) 115

Vasilii V. Kalugin. “Damned and Swinish Sophistries”: Wordsmithing in Publications of Old Russian Texts 140

Alexandra V. Dukhanina. The Elizabethan Bible as a Source of Quotations in the Hagiography of the Second Half of the 18th Century 151

Vera S. Kuznetsova. On the Siberian Chud in Chronicle Sources and Oral Narratives 170

Diana E. Tskhovrebova. The Phenomenon of Shapeshifting in the Non-Fairytale Ossetian Prose 186

Svetlana V. Berezkina. “Don’t Forget the People, Dear Sirs!” (Letters from V. N. Karazin to V. A. Zhukovsky in 1841) 208

Pavel S. Glushakov. Repetition of Disappeared Words: F. A. Abramov’s Unpublished Letter to B. G. Eremina 222

List of Abbreviations 327