The Discourse of Igor’’s Campaign (Slovo o polku Igoreve) translated by Vladimir Nabokov

This publication presents the hitherto unpublished text of The Discourse of Igor’’s Campaign, an English translation from the Old Russian Slovo o polku Igoreve, executed by Vla¬di¬mir Nabokov in the early 1950s and later replaced by a new version (The Song of Igor’s Campaign, New York 1960). The early translation is reproduced from a typescript discovered in the private archive of the renowned Harvard Slavist and comparatist Renato Poggioli, a friend and correspondent of Nabokov. The text is reproduced faithfully, with only minimal necessary emendatory interventions.