ANTHOLOGY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE From the Earliest Period to the Present Time BY LEO WIENER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY IN TWO PARTS 8^o with Photogravure Frontispieces PART I.--From the Tenth Century to the Close of the Eighteenth Century PART II.--From the Close of the Eighteenth Century to the Present Time G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK LONDON [Illustration: Lomonosow] Anthology of Russian Literature From the Earliest Period to the Present Time By Leo Wiener Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard University IN TWO PARTS [Illustration] From the Tenth Century to the Close of the Eighteenth Century G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1902 COPYRIGHT, 1902 BY LEO WIENER Published, June, 1902 The Knickerbocker Press, New York TO MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE ARCHIBALD CARY COOLIDGE THIS WORK IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED PREFACE