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Article: Simeon Polockii. Vertograd mnogocvetnyi.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2000
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Simeon Polockii: Vertograd mnogocvetnyi. Vol. 1: 'Aaron'-'Detem blagoslovenie'. Ed. by ANTHONY HIPPISLEY and LUDIA I. SAZONOVA. With a foreword by DMITRIJ S. LICHACEV. (Bausteine zur slavischen Philologie und Kulturgeschichte, Reihe B: Editionen. Neue Folge, 10/1) Koln, Weimar, and Wien: Bohlau. 1996. lx + 356 pp. DM 88.
In 1656, on a visit to the town of Polotsk, Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich received solemn greetings from a local monk and his followers from one of the town's monasteries. To a Muscovite ear the startling feature of these greetings was that they were declaimed not in the rhythmic rhetorical prose of traditional Orthodox panegyric but in verse. Impressed ...