Abstract

The article examines the common and special versions of the Old Russian “Tale on the Origin of Tobacco”. The special version is represented by 4 copies, the common version - by 2 copies. The analysed versions trace their origin from the copies of the first source version. Both the versions contain an inclusion summarizing some episodes of the story; some text fragments containing the information already known to the reader are abridged. However, each of the mentioned versions has its particular set of inclusions and reductions, which allows considering them an integral part of the history of “Tale on the Origin of Tobacco”.

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