Structure of the work
Nicholas Zharkikh
Rubruk's book in Russian translation by O. Malein consists of the introduction and 53 chapters. However, one should be aware that English translations (, 1253-55, as narrated by himself, with two accounts of the earlier journey of John of Pian de Carpine. tr. from the Latin and ed., with an introductory notice, by William Woodville Rockhill. – London: Hakluyt Society, 1900; The mission of Friar William of Rubruck: his journey to the court of the Great Khan Mongke, 1253-1255, tr. by Peter Jackson; introduction, notes and appendices by Peter Jackson with David Morgan. – London: Hakluyt Society, 1990) divided into 22 chapters. Apparently, in the various lists of heads of different divisions, it does not seem to have been the subject of special study. Well, in Europe and America such science as archeography just unknow, but in Ukraine, although there is a special Institute of archeography, but it still not interested in Rubruk.
In this article used the division to the next 53 chapters.
| № | Name | Volume, bytes |
| Preface | 905 | |
Arriving in the Crimea |
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| 1 | Our arrival from Constantinople to Soldaia, the first city of the Tatars | 8051 |
The customs of the Tatars |
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| 2 | About the Tatars and their homes | 4010 |
| 3 | On their beds, idols and rituals before drinking | 2522 |
| 4 | On their drinks and how they encourage others to drink | 1626 |
| 5 | About their food | 1747 |
| 6 | As they prepare mare's milk | 3204 |
| 7 | About animals that they eat, their clothes and their hunting | 3338 |
| 8 | On the shaving of men and women dress | 2498 |
| 9 | The responsibilities of women, their occupations and their weddings | 2792 |
| 10 | Of their proceedings, courts, death and funeral | 3216 |
A journey from Crimea to Möngke Khan |
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| 11 | On our arrival in the country of the barbarians and their ingratitude | 3379 |
| 12 | On the Scatay's yard and the fact that Christians do not drink kumiss | 3518 |
| 13 | About Alans that came to us on the eve of Pentecost | 1633 |
| 14 | On a Saracen, who wanted to be baptized, and about some people that took the form of lepers | 3315 |
| 15 | On a burden that we have experienced, and the tombs of Comans | 5492 |
| 16 | About Sartaq and its peoples | 2158 |
| 17 | About Sartaq's yard and his fame | 5458 |
| 18 | The fact that we received orders to go to Sartaq's father Batu | 3438 |
| 19 | Sartaq, Mangu Chan and Keu Chan have honored the Christians. The Origin of Chingis and Tatars | 3912 |
| 20 | On the Russian, Hungarians, Alans and the Caspian Sea | 3159 |
| 21 | On the Batu's court and how he receive us | 7614 |
| 22 | On the Brothers' way to the court of Mangu Khan | 3347 |
| 23 | On the river Jagac and different lands and peoples in this country | 3127 |
| 24 | On hunger, thirst and other disasters that we experienced in this way | 3105 |
| 25 | On the killing of Buri and the dwellings of the Germans in this land | 4058 |
| 26 | On the mixing of the Nestorians and Saracens, and their idolatry | 3110 |
| 27 | On their temples and idols and how they send the service of their gods | 4810 |
| 28 | On the different peoples of those countries and those who have had the custom to eat their parents | 7801 |
| 29 | What happened to us after leaving Cailac in Naiman's land | 3171 |
| 30 | On Naiman's land, death of Keu Khan, his wife and eldest son | 2981 |
Staying at Möngke's court |
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| 31 | On our arrival at the court of Mangu Khan | 4768 |
| 32 | On Christian chapel and a meeting with the bogus Nestorian monk named Sergius | 5885 |
| 33 | Description of reception made for us | 6750 |
| 34 | On a Lorraine woman and Parisian goldsmith, which we found in the country | 2360 |
| 35 | About Theodolus, clerk of Acre, and other | 4255 |
| 36 | On holiday celebrated by Mangu Khan. The fact that with his primary wife and eldest son visited Nestorian liturgy | 6881 |
| 37 | On the fasting of Nestorians. About how we went to the palace of Mangu Khan, and very many other visits | 7896 |
| 38 | About how the monk Sergius healed lady Cota | 5461 |
| 39 | Description of land lying in the vicinity of the Khan's palace. About customs, coins and writings of the Tatars | 4827 |
| 40 | On the second fast of the eastern nations | 6120 |
| 41 | The work of goldsmith William, and the Khan's Palace in the Karakorum | 7816 |
| 42 | On the Nestorians sacraments. As Christians have confessed by Rubruk and received Easter communion | 4267 |
| 43 | About the disease of master William and the priest Jonah | 5633 |
| 44 | Description of the city of Karakorum. How Mangu khan sent his brothers against different people | 7866 |
| 45 | How many times we was asked. Our conversations and arguments with idolaters | 12 930 |
| 46 | As Khan urged us at the day of Pentecost. About Tartar religion. Talk on our way back | 5655 |
| 47 | About diviners, sorcerers from the Tatars, their bad habits and life | 8221 |
| 48 | Description of a great holiday. On the chart, sent from Mangu Khan to King Louis of France. Fellow of brother William stay among the Tatars | 9494 |
Return |
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| 49 | The journey from Karakorum to Batu, and from there to the city of Saraj | 8337 |
| 50 | Continuing of the way from Saraj through Alan and Lesgi mountains, through the Iron gates and through other places | 4807 |
| 51 | Continued travel along Araxes. About the city Naksua, Sahensa's land and other places | 8960 |
| 52 | Crossing the Euphrates. Fortress Camath. Returning to Cyprus, Antioch and Tripoli | 4026 |
| 53 | About how brother William wrote from Tripoli to King Louis, informing him about his journey and about sending ambassadors to the Tartars | 3760 |
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