Studying of "The Tale of the Igor'S Campaign" at the Present Stage: Comparative and Historical Aspects

The article analyses the latest approaches to the study of "The Tale of the Igor's Campaign" in the comparatively historical perspective. The genre and textual parallels of "The Tale…" with biblical texts, Anglo-Saxon, Irish and Georgian epic poetry are considered. Particular attention is paid to the attempts on semantic analysis of some obscure fragments of the work in recent historiography.