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The Lay of the Ruin of the Russian Land is a work of Old East Slavic literature dated to the 13th century. It has been preserved in fragments and is known from manuscripts from the 15th to 16th centuries.

Discovery
The manuscript was published in 1892 by Khrisand Mefodievich Loparev in Saint Petersburg although the source was already known to archeologist K.G. Evlentyev from Pskov in 1878. On the back side of the front cover of the collection containing the “Lay of the Ruin of the Russian Land” he left the following note: “NB a kind of prologue. It starts with a history of Daniel the prophet (with spaces for drawings), with the beginning missing. This is the first slovo. There are 22 slovos in total: September, October, November and December, March, April, May. The 22nd and last slovo – On the ruin of the Russian land and on the death of the great prince Yaroslav (and the biography of Alexander Nevsky) – is only the beginning and end with the middle missing, the papers torn out. A great pity – it is a remarkable slovo. A manuscript from the 16th century. City of Pskov”. Two folios were found: one from Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery dated to the 15th century, and one from Riga from the 16th century.