On the genre composition of a manuscript collection from M.P. Golovin’s library

Abstract

The article analyzes one of the Old Russian narrative manuscript collections of the 17th century as a literary fact. Two interesting anonymous works from it are published: “Epistle of a Sad Man” and the verse “About Human Life”.

Keywords

• old russian literature
• collections
• textology
• poetics
• epistolography
• writing of poetry