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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The serial is published by the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom). Includes the following chapters: Theory and History of Folklore. From the History of Folklore Studies, Publications, Bibliography, Chronicle.
[ Problems of Museum studies and Folk Culture : ] Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1999 Language: Russian
Price: $ 19.50
This is a collected work on museum studies in Siberia and their place in a history program for graduate students, special collections on Siberian folklore, ethnography and history.
This is the ninth issue of proceedings of the Russian Institute for Studies in the History of the Arts (St. Petersburg). Contents: Institutskie dni i gody M.S. Druskina v kontekste 1920-1990 gg.; RIII i V.
This is a collection of articles on the ethnography and culture of aboriginal peoples of the Far North and Siberia: Traditions, folklore, genealogy, beliefs and arts. Among the contributors are ethnographers, archeologists, historians, linguists, sociologists, etc.
This is the seventh issue of proceedings of the Russian Institute for Studies in the History of the Arts (St. Petersburg). Contents: Struny Boiana: k voprosu o programmnosti instrumental`noi muzyki XII v.
This monograph deals with the cultural history of the Bashkir from the archaic period to the twentieth century. The author substantiates the idea of the unity of European and Asian features in the Bashkir culture.
Contents: Prikladnoe primenenie fol`klora; Iz istorii kliaks. Uroki chistopisaniia v sovetskoi shkole i medial`naia antropologiia; Karel`skii Filipok: regional`nye osobennosti sotsiokul`turnogo oblika sel`skogo shkol`nika kontsa XIX - nachala XX v.
This monograph describes the classification of village home crafts and fields (small business) of European Russia at the turn of the 20th century. Volodarskii provides statistical information about their distribution and locations, and their economic development.
Petr Rudnev (d.1996) was a well known Russian historian of poetry. This is a collection of memoirs about him and works of his colleagues and pupils: Iu. Lotman, James Bailey, M. Gasparov, etc. Bibliography of Rudnev`s works.
This collective work studies songs and tunes from hand written collections, both with and without scores, written down in the period from the second half of the 17th to early 19th centuries. These collections are housed in several Russian archives.
The Vepsy (their old name is the Chud`) are a very old people of the Russian North (Kareliia, Vologda and neighbors). This book studies the calendar rituals of the Vepsy.
Code: 004902-2 Iazguliamskii Sbornik Vypusk 2. Iazyk i Literatura. [ Iazguliam collection : Volume two. Language and Literature ] St. Petersburg: Izd-vo S. Peterburgskogo Universiteta, 1997 Language: Russian
Price: $ 10.50
The second volume contains articles by young scholars in the theory and history of folklore and literature as well as in linguistics.
[ Wedding rituals of the peoples of Russia and neighboring countries : ] Moscow: In-t Etnologii i Antropologii im. N.N. Miklukho-Maklaia, 1993 Language: Russian
Price: $ 13.50
This collected work includes eight articles describing the wedding rituals of several ethnicities from the territory of the FSU: Georgia, Dagestan, the Smolensk region, Mordovia, Armenia, etc.
Code: 013239 Froianov, I.Ia., Iudin, Iu.I Bylinnaia Istoriia Raboty Raznykh Let [ History in Russian heroic poems : Raboty Raznykh Let ] St. Petersburg: Izd-vo Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, 1997 Language: Russian
Price: $ 45.00
This is a collection of works on the historical aspects of Russian heroic poems and, in particular, of bylinas. All these works were written as preparation for a monograph on the subject. This study was not finished because of the death of one of the co-authors, the philologist and historian Iurii Iudin (1938-1995).
[ Moscow legends : ] Moscow: Literatura i Politika, 1993 Language: Russian
Price: $ 24.00
Most of the stories, published for first time in this book, were collected in Moscow eating-houses in the 1920s. Among the heros of the city`s folklore are Pushkin and Gogol, cheats and evil spirits, rich merchants and ordinary people.
This textbook for students of Russian language with a major in philology consists of two parts. The first contains some theory and exercises on collecting dialectical words to be used in student summer field work.
[ Song lyrics of the oral tradition : ] St. Petersburg: Rossiiskii Institut Istorii iskusstv, 1994 Language: Russian
Price: $ 13.50
This book offers the present notion of the folklore genre which has not been fully studied in spite of its high musical quality: Russian lyrical song in the rural oral tradition. The subjects discussed include: the earlier forms of song lyrics, the instrumental nature of Volynian Czech melodies, the phenomenon of scale-intonation unity in songs of the local tradition in Russian settlements in the Bashkir area, the interrelation of local traditions in the community of Ukrainian settlers in Siberia, etc.
This collection studies the artistic image in Russian Siberian folklore in two senses: as image-character and as an image-stylistic element. Siberian tales, bylichkas, legends, stories, songs, spells and other folklore forms are analyzed from this perspective.
[ The Old Russian parable : ] Moscow: Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1991 Language: Russian
Price: $ 21.00
This book consists of several chapters: original and translated parable, parable-proverbs, parable-enigmas. Includes a short dictionary of old words and bibliographic references.
The collection of materials of the 4th International School of Young Folklorists includes papers of the leading Russian folklorists, such as V. Bakhtina, N. Drannikova, L. Fadeeva, A. Grauer, T. Ivanova, K.
This is a collection of folklore of Old Believers collected in Nizhnii Novgorod Oblast. It includes: stories about Russian history and sacred history, spiritual verses, apocryphal prayers and ceremonies, everyday life stories.
Mstera is known throughout the world as a center of papier-mache lacquer miniatures and icon painting. The author of this book, born in Mstera, one of the oldest artists of this place, focused on the specific features of the Mstera style, secrets of their art, the best known Mstera artists, and education of new ones.
This is an ethnographic study of one of the aboriginal people of the Far North. Based upon written sources, museum collections, and field materials the author studies the traditional conceptions of the Udeghe about human beings, space and time, fauna and flora, their medical and pedagogical ideas, their rituals and holidays, epic and musical arts, life style and traditions.
The Balkan terms in the title of this book mean the ritual reality - twisted red and white threads - which Balkan Slavs traditionally exchange on March 1st, the beginning of the Spring cycle, with wishes for health and good harvests.
This is the first monograph on the traditional Russian clothing of Siberian peasants of the upper Cis-Ob` area. Based on the history of clothing, the author makes some interesting conclusions about the ethnic and religious roots of several ethnic groups in the area: Orthodox "Chaldons", Old Believer "Kerzhaks", and "Poliaks".
These are collected articles from the Russian-Finnish symposium, conducted in November 2003, on the base of the Pomor State University. The symposium dealt with actual problems in Funno-Ugric studies and Russian cultural and ethnic identity in folklore, ethnology and other related disciplinary studies.
This is the materials of the fourth annual conference organized by the Center for Russian Folklore Studies. The first one was in 1997. The collection includes 24 articles divided into four chapters: General issues of Slavic traditional culture; Local folklore; Poetics of folklore; From the history of Russian folklore studies.
[ Mythological stories of Russian peasants of the 19th and 20th centuries : ] St. Petersburg: Pushkinskii Dom, 2015 Language: Russian
Price: $ 49.00
This is the second edition of the first anthology of mythological stories (bylichkas) of Russian peasants in the 19th and 20th centuries. It includes more than a thousand bylichkas both wide-spread and existing in a single recording.
Dmitrii Konstantinovich Zelenin (1878-1954) was one of the most important Russian ethnographers and philologists. The series "Traditsionnaia Dukhovnaia Kul`tura" aims to familiarize modern scholars with the Russian scientific heritage.
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