Сочинение о демонах из архива Посольского приказа : К вопросу о культурных контактах России и Европы в последней трети XVII столетия [A Treatise on Demons from the Archive of the Posol’skii Prikaz: about Cultural Contacts between Russia and Europe in the Last Third of the Seventeenth Century]

The article contains a study and a text edition of a Russian treatise on demons from the second half of the 17th century that was recently discovered in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents. Although the form of a demonological treatise is not typical for the Russian literature of the time and shows a great affinity with the European cultural tradition, all specific details mentioned in the text have their parallels in Orthodox literature. The treatise thus can have been written by a Russian Orthodox author who received his education in another country (for instance, in Poland), but it is also possible that it is a translation from some European language, adapted in Russia for a Russian reader.