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Nestor Iskander's Tale on the Taking of Tsargrad
15th-century Russian tale on the fall of Constantinople
The Tale on the Taking of Tsargrad (Russian: Повесть о взятии Царьграда, romanized: Povest' o vzyatii Tsar'grada) is a late 15th-century Russian tale on the fall of Constantinople attributed to one Nestor Iskander.
It is extant in two redactions that date to the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century, both of which are thought to be derived from a single original now lost. The oldest and most authoritative version, the so-called Iskanderian redaction, is extant in a single copy and part of an early 16th-century manuscript from the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius (Troitse-Sergieva Lavra Ms.
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