The Zadónshchina (XIV. c.) 106 Afanási Nikítin (XV. c.) 111 Travel to India 111 Apocryphal Legends about King Solomon (XV. c.) 114 The Story of Kitovrás 114 Prince Kúrbski (1528-1583) 115 The Storming of Kazán 116 Letter to Iván the Terrible 118 Iván the Terrible (1530-1584) 121 Letter to Prince Kúrbski 121 The Domostróy (XVI. c.) 126 How to Educate Children and Bring them up in the Fear of God 126 How to Teach Children and Save them through Fear 127 How Christians are to Cure Diseases and all Kinds of Ailments 128 The Wife is always and in all Things to Take Counsel with her Husband 128 How to Instruct Servants 129 Songs Collected by Richard James (1619-1620) 130 Incursion of the Crimean Tartars 131 The Song of the Princess Kséniya Borísovna 132 The Return of Patriarch Filarét to Moscow 133 Krizhánich (1617-1677) 134 Political Reasons for the Union of the Churches 135 On Knowledge 136 On Foreigners 136 Kotoshíkhin (1630-1667) 136 The Education of the Princes 137 The Private Life of the Boyárs and of other Ranks 139 Simeón Pólotski (1629-1680) 149 On the Birth of Peter the Great 150 An Evil Thought 151 The Magnet 151 The Story of Misery Luckless-Plight (XVII. or XVIII. c.) 152 THE FOLKLORE 161 Epic Songs 163 Volkh Vseslávevich 163 Ilyá of Múrom and Nightingale the Robber 165 Historical Songs 172 Yermák 172