Medieval Russian literature

thumb| Dobrynya Nikitich rescues Zabava Putyatichna from the dragon Gorynych, by [[Ivan Bilibin (1941)]]

oldest dated book of Kievan Rus'.

Zadonshchina (; could be translated as "the region beyond the Don River") is a Russian literary monument of the late 14th century, which tells of the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380.

thumb|Beginning of a copy from the early 16th century

Slavonic Old Testament commentary