Publication "The Tale of Igor's Campaign"

Chernihiv Regional State Television and Radio Company, 2000. The program "In a Chronicle Line" tells about the publication "The Tale of Igor's Campaign", the history of the first printing, and the exhibits of the Rare Book Museum of Mykola Gogol Nizhyn State University.

On the video: monument to Prince Igor in Novgorod-Siversky; Boyan monument; Trinity-Ilyinsky Monastery; medieval drawings; illustrations for "The Tale of Igor's Campaign"; portrait of Mykola Bantysh-Kamensky; first edition of "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" (published in moscow); first translation of "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" by Maksimovich into Ukrainian; facsimile edition of "The Tale..." of the 19th century (appeared in the 20th century); All Saints Church in Nizhyn; monument to Yaroslavna; quotes by Mikhail Maksimovich, Vissarion Belinsky (in russian).

Commented by: Svitlana Polovnikova, head of the department of the V. Tarnovsky Chernihiv Historical Museum; Ivan Kostenko, director of the Museum of Rare Books of the M. Gogol National University of Ukraine.

The program was produced by: director — Tetyana Myrhorodska; cinematographers — Oleksandr Dovbenko, Valeriy Tsyrkun; musical score by Yuriy Anikeichyk.

Reference: "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" is a monument of the Ukrainian language, one of the oldest monuments of Old Russian literature, and one of the greatest achievements of the medieval epic; it tells about the campaign of Prince Igor of Novgorod-Siversk against the Polovtsy in the 12th century.