Kogda harakterizuyut nauchnyj oblik i nauchnye interesy literaturoveda, obychno dayut obzor tem ego rabot: chasche vsego - kakimi pisatelyami i kakimi pamyatnikami uchenyj zanimalsya. Eto mozhno sdelat i v otnoshenii Igorya Petrovicha. Mozhno skazat, chto on zanimalsya i bolshe vsego lyubil Kievskij period literatury, pisal o letopisi, o Kirille Turovskom, o Feodosii Pecherskom, Kievo-Pecherskom paterike i, konechno, o "Slove o polku Igoreve." Mozhno skazat, chto on zanimalsya XVI vekom, pisal ob Iosife Volotskom, chto on zanimalsya literaturoj barokko, starinnoj ukrainskoj literaturoj i literaturoj novoj ukrainskoj. Vse eti temy, bezuslovno, harakterny dlya Igorya Petrovicha. I vse-taki ne v nih glavnoe. Esli mnogih literaturovedov dejstvitelno mozhno otlichit drug ot druga tolko po pisatelyam, kotorymi oni zanimayutsya, to u Igorya Petrovicha bylo svoe, svoeobraznoe i individualnoe ne v etom. Eto svoeobrazie bylo, kazalos by, ne srazu zametno, no ono ostanetsya nadolgo v istorii nashej nauki. Ego pozitsiya issledovatelya byla skromnoj, no stojkoj, nadolgo zapominayuschejsya, ostavlyayuschej glubokij nestirayuschijsya sled v nauke. This book, "Literatura drevnej Rusi," by I.P. Eremin, is a replication of a book originally published before 1966. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.