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Foreword: "In Pursuit of My Lord's Quest..." | 7 | |
Chapter I. | Introduction: At the Sources | 11 |
1. | A Commotion on the Rhine, or How the Russians Alarmed Europe for the First Time | 11 |
2. | Strange Customs of the Arsanians | 13 |
3. | A Ballad to the Intelligence Services of the Prophetic Oleg | 15 |
4. | Intelligence Among Slavs and Russians According to Early Medieval Authors | 20 |
5. | The First Woman Who Outwitted Men | 21 |
6. | How a Lad, together with Voivode Pretich, Saved Kiev, or Disinformation as a Factor in Victory | 24 |
Chapter II. | Unequal Competition: Svyatoslav's Intelligence Against Byzantium and its Allies | 27 |
1. | The First Balkan Campaign. Voivode Volk | 27 |
2. | Calokir's Scheme and Svyatoslav's New Plans. War with Byzantium | 30 |
3. | Intelligence Among the Byzantines and Russians | 36 |
4. | Defeat at Arkadiopolis | 40 |
5. | Svyatoslav's Agents at the Greek Camp. Tzimisces Crosses the Rhodope Mountains | 42 |
6. | The Collapse of the Russian and Bulgarian Union | 45 |
7. | "The Storm Was Roaring, Rain Thundered Down..." The Night Raid of July 28, 971 | 48 |
8. | Ikmor's Death. Sacrifice to Perun | 49 |
9. | Byzantine Ears at Svyatoslav's War Council. Investigation and Castigation | 51 |
10. | The Last Battle. The Dorostol Peace | 53 |
11. | A Landscape with Oarsmen and Horsemen. Death at the Dnieper Rapids. Whose Fault? | 56 |
12. | The Skull Chalice. Valediction to the Great Prince Svyatoslav lgorevich | 59 |
Chapter III. | The Secret Wars of Prince Vladimir's Times | 61 |
1. | A Hunting Accident and the Beginning of the Svyatoslavichi Strife (i.e., the power struggle among Svyatoslav's heirs) | 61 |
2. | Vladimir's War March on Korsun | 64 |
3. | A Story About Two Agents. Chronicle Versions about Anastasius | 68 |
4. | Anastasius. Some Traits of the Portrait | 73 |
5. | A Sequel to the Story of Two Agents. Zhdebern | 75 |
6. | Anastasius's Star, or the First Agent Who Defected to the West | 84 |
7. | Russian Strategic Intelligence in the South | 86 |
8. | Folk Wits | 89 |
9. | Vladimir's Domestic Law-and-Order Philosophy | 91 |
Chapter IV. | Epic Heroes | 95 |
1. | History and the Heroic Epics | 95 |
2. | Ilya Muromets and his Friends. "Heroic Outposts" | 97 |
3. | An Epic Picture of Ilya Muromets | 103 |
4. | Dounai | 105 |
5. | Dobrynia Nikitich | 107 |
6. | Alesha Popovich | 112 |
7. | The Case of the Stolen Silver Chalice | 115 |
8. | Dobrynia and Marinka | 122 |
9. | The Vicissitudes of Service (Intrigues, Conflicts, Dungeons, etc.) | 127 |
10. | Epos and History. Who of the Heroes Served or Could Have Served Vladimir Svyatoslavich? | 133 |
11. | Russian Secret Services under Vladimir. A Summary | 135 |
Some General Remarks | 135 | |
The Secret Services of Rus in a Historic Context | 137 | |
A Brief Note on Counter-Intelligence | 138 | |
A Saga about Great Chiefs. Sigurd | 140 | |
An Aside on Capturing a Good Man | 141 | |
The "Saga" of Malousha | 142 | |
Chapter V. | Svyatopolk Yaropolchich and the Volodimeriches (Svyatopolk, Son of Yaropolk, and Vladimir's Kin) | 151 |
1. | Son or Stepson? | 151 |
2. | The Shadow of Yaropolk | 156 |
3. | Fortune Smiles on Svyatopolk | 158 |
4. | "Poutsha's Folks" | 164 |
5. | Two Varangians | 173 |
6. | Crimson Dawns | 182 |
7. | How Yaroslav the Wise Came Close to Becoming Yaroslav the Daft | 188 |
8. | Svyatopolk's Return. An Interpretation of the "Eimund Yarn" | 192 |
9. | Svyatopolk's Return in the Chronicles. Battle at Volhyn' | 195 |
The Battle at Volhyn' | 195 | |
Plunder. Son-in-Law Against Father-in-Law | 197 | |
Predslava's Tragedy | 202 | |
Svyatopolk and Rus in Boleslav's Dreams | 204 | |
Mstislav's Silence | 206 | |
Svyatopolk's "Quiet Revolt" | 207 | |
Triumphant Exodus. With Yaroslav's Hosts in the Background | 211 | |
Vanity of Vanities | 214 | |
10. | Svyatopolk's End. A Version in the "Eimund Yarn" | 217 |
An Agent Must be Paid | 217 | |
Incarnations: Merchant--Mendicant--Executioner | 219 | |
11. | "Between the Czechs and the Liakhs." The Russian Version | 224 |
Vengeance | 224 | |
Bylina about Ilya Muromets and Sokolnik | 229 | |
Addendum. The Earliest Physical Evidence of an Intelligence Report from a Russian Agent | 235 | |
Bibliography in English | 245 | |
Bibliography in Russian | 251 |
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