People's Russia. Year-round tales, beliefs, customs, and proverbs of the Russian people
Melodious, like the language of the people, stylized under the tales is a twenty-year labor of Apollon Apollonovich Korinthsky, a renowned folklorist and poet, which has seen the light again. This is the result of observations of the life of...
the people living on Russian land and the study of the works of other eminent collectors of folklore and authors of works on Russian literature, such as A. N. Afanasyev, P. V. Kireevsky, I. P. Sakharov, and others.
"People's Russia" covers the entire year of a Russian peasant's life: all the holidays, rituals, proverbs, sayings, and omens related to various events. This work also describes not only the natural life cycles and the associated lives of saints in the popular consciousness but also the life of the person himself: from birth to entry into the other world, from the first lullabies sung to him by his mother to funeral laments and prayers. The reader will also become acquainted with the richest storehouse of myths and legends of Russian land: epic heroes and unprecedented monsters, as well as learn how exactly, according to our distant ancestors, it originated ...
Melodious, like the language of the people, stylized under the tales is a twenty-year labor of Apollon Apollonovich Korinthsky, a renowned folklorist and poet, which has seen the light again. This is the result of observations of the life of the people living on Russian land and the study of the works of other eminent collectors of folklore and authors of works on Russian literature, such as A. N. Afanasyev, P. V. Kireevsky, I. P. Sakharov, and others.
"People's Russia" covers the entire year of a Russian peasant's life: all the holidays, rituals, proverbs, sayings, and omens related to various events. This work also describes not only the natural life cycles and the associated lives of saints in the popular consciousness but also the life of the person himself: from birth to entry into the other world, from the first lullabies sung to him by his mother to funeral laments and prayers. The reader will also become acquainted with the richest storehouse of myths and legends of Russian land: epic heroes and unprecedented monsters, as well as learn how exactly, according to our distant ancestors, it originated ...
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