The teaching materials for the lecture course "Literature of Kievan Rus (11th/First Half of the 13th Century)" have been developed at the Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University based on the lectures delivered by Professor Natalya Demkova. The course is primarily aimed at the study of the artistic significance of the literature of Kievan Rus', the first stage of the formation and development of East Slavonic literatures: Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian as well as the key issues in the historical and literary process going on in the 11th/13th centuries.
