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Author: Isabel Arranz del Riego (isaarranz@gmail.com)
Maintained by: David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt@gmail.com)
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2014-02-16T18:16:50+0000
Повесть о взятии Царьграда (the Tale of the fall of
Constantinople) is an original East Slavic work from the last quarter of the
fifteenth century, written just a few decades after the capture of Constantinople by the
Turks. It includes the Legend of the foundation of Constantinople
and the Tale
of the capture of Constantinople by the Turks
. The digital edition is based on
Isabel Arranz del Riego’s Estudio y edición interlineal del relato sobre la toma de
Constantinopla a partir de los manuscritos HM.281, HM.280 y HM.282
(doctoral
dissertation, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2013).