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Some Observations on R. G. Skrynnikov’s Views Concerning the Kurbskii-Groznyi Apocrypha

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Edward L. Keenan
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Professor Ruslan Skrynnikov has now provided readers of Slavic Review with a brief summary of his views concerning the relationship of the first letter to Ivan IV, attributed to Prince A. M. Kurbskii, and the writings of the Ukrainian monk Isaiah. Since his article seems to have been long in press, it does not mention Skrynnikov’s own rather more extensive (although in places identical verbatim) article in a recent number of Russkaia literatura, nor does it take account of certain other recent contributions to the discussion of the Kurbskii-Groznyi apocrypha. Moreover, Professor Skrynnikov makes several statements that might lead those unfamiliar with the matter to premature and, in my view, erroneous conclusions.

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Slavic Review , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , March 1979 , pp. 89 - 91
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1979

References

1. Skrynnikov, R. G., “On the Authenticity of the Kurbskii-Groznyi Correspondence: A Summary of the Discussion,” Slavic Revieiv, 37, no. 1 (March 1978): 107–15.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2. Skrynnikov, R. G., “K voprosu o proiskhozhdenii skhodnykh mest v Pervom poslanii Kurbskogo tsariu Ivanu IV i sochineniiakh Isaii,” Russkaia literatura, 1977, no. 3, pp. 65–76.Google Scholar

3. In addition to the articles cited below, see, for example, articles by Orchard, G. Edward, Waugh, Daniel C., Auerbach, Inge, Lunt, Horace G., and Keenan, Edward L., under the rubric “The Kurbskii Controversy,” in Rowney, Don Karl and Orchard, G. Edward, eds., Russian and Slavic History (Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1977), pp. 209–59 Google Scholar; and Edward L., Keenan, “Reply” in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 22, no. 4 (1975): 593–617.Google Scholar Among the more serious reviews or review articles, see those by D. Freydank in Zeitschrift für Slaivistik, 21, no. 3 (1976): 415-22; Wójcik, Zbigniew, “Wokól epoki Iwana Groź;nego,” Kwartalnik Historycsny, 1975, no. 2, pp. 374–403Google Scholar; and Wójcik, Zbigniew, “Edwarda Keenana proba rewizji dziejów Rosji szesnastowiecznej,” Slavia Orientalis, vol. 24 (1975), pp. 335–41.Google Scholar

4. Skrynnikov, “On the Authenticity of the Kurbskii-Groznyi Correspondence,” p. 107.

5. Kukushkina, M. V., “Semen Shakhovskoi—avtor Povesti o Smute,” Pamiatniki kultury: Novye otkrytiia 1974 (Moscow, 1975), p. 74–78.Google Scholar

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8. Skrynnikov, “On the Authenticity of the Kurbskii-Groznyi Correspondence,” p. 107.

9. Ibid., pp. 107-8.

10. Fennell, J., review of R. G. Skrynnikov's Perepiska Grosnogo i Kurbskogo, in Russia Mediaevalis (Munich), 2 (1975): 188–98.Google Scholar

11. Skrynnikov, “K voprosu o proiskhozhdenii skhodnykh mest.” With regard specifically to Mr. Lur'e's views, I have prepared a new study of all versions of Ivan's first letter, which comes to quite different conclusions. I shall be happy to provide a summary of my findings to colleagues who request it.

12. Skrynnikov, “On the Authenticity of the Kurbskii-Groznyi Correspondence,” p. 114.

13. Keenan, “Reply.”

14. Since the submission of this note, volume 33 of Trudy Otdela drevnerusskoi literatury has appeared, providing new articles by Lur'e ( “O vozniknovenii i skladyvanii v sborniki perepiski Ivana Groznogo s Kurbskim” ), Skrynnikov ( “O zagolovke Pervogo poslaniia Ivana IV Kurbskomu i kharaktere ikh perepiski” ), and K. S. Osipova ( “'Istoriia o velikom kniaze Moskovskom’ Andreia Kurbskogo v Golitsynskom sbornike” ).