Studia Litterarum Studia Litterarum 2500-4247 IWL RAS https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2026-11-1-106-133 Research Article Articles Kirill Turovsky’s “The Word for Antipascha” as a Monument of Eloquence Within the Framework of Medieval Literary Custom Kirillin Vladimir M. red@studlit.ru March 25, 2026 2026 December 11, 2025 The article analyzes the structure, content and artistic features of Kirill Turovsky’s “Words for the New Week on Easter or Anti-Easter.” The author reveals the multifaceted composition of the work, reflecting Kirill’s diverse and multidimensional thinking using a traditional set of rhetorical techniques. Noting the connection of the Old Russian speaker with the unified Greek-Byzantine and South Slavic kallological tradition, the researcher compares Kirill’s oratory with such Russian masters of the word as Metropolitan Hilarion, Metropolitan Cyprian and Epiphanius the Wise, emphasizing the common features in their literary manner. Like them, the Turovsky speaker used single-handedness, enumerative constructions, phrasal, lexical and morphological repetitions, semantic and pictorial antitheses, syntactic parallelism and rhythmization of the verbal flow, biblical and gymnographic images, quotations, allusions, paraphrases, dramatic form of an appeal to the gospel story. In general, the article reveals the meaning of the “Word for Antipascha” as an outstanding literary and theological work. solemn sermon kallilogia composition theme oratorical techniques author’s speech monologue of a character stylistic topos biblical quotation paraphrase allusion Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 1 Barankova, G.S., and I.I. Makeeva. “Oratorskaia proza Kirilla Turovskogo i ee mesto v drevnerusskoi knizhnosti” [“Kirill Turovsky’s Oratorical Prose and Its Place in Old Russian Literature”]. Pis’mennost’, literatura, fol’klor slavianskikh narodov. Istoriia slavistiki. XVI Mezhdunarodnyi s”ezd slavistov. Belgrad, 20–27 avgusta 2018 g. 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