Russian in Yasni Exposé of Pavel Agafonov

What Pavel Means. What means Vasilievich. And what means Agafonov

The present paper is the sequel to a series of five articles describing early Russian materials in the Library of Congress [1]. Among the holdings of the Library of Congress, the de Ricci catalog (1935) identifies only one manuscript fragment of Slavonic provenance-an illuminated page from Ioann Ekzarkh Bolgarskii's Shestodnev [a six-day prayer suite] on parchment [2]. E. G. Baskakov's surveys, published in 1959 and 1962, include the Library of Congress holdings, even though the author was never in America and had to rely on the writings of American archivists, who made no great effort to include information about Russian sources in their guides [3]. In 1979 Natal'ia S. Demkova published the first description of some of the early Russian materials held by the Library of Congress [4]. From this work we learned that the Library of Congress houses several early Russian books and manuscripts, most notably the Tsvetnaia Triod' [the liturgy from Easter to All Saints' Week] (no call number)[5] and the Pomorskie otvety [Answers from Pomor'e (a priestless Christian community that dwelt in the White Sea coastal region from the late 17th to mid-19th century)] (call number BX601 .D4)[6]. These two manuscript books were described in rather great detail in N. S. Demkova's article. Among the early printed books, she mentioned the Grammatika Meletiia Smotritskogo (Moscow, 1648), and she referred to V. Jackson's supplement to R. O. Jakobson's work, which mentions that the Library holds a copy of the Apostol' by Ivan Fedorov [7].