Folklore

Code: 019120
Steblin-Kamenskii, M.I
Mif

[ Myth : ]
Moscow: Nauka, 1976
Language: Russian

Price: $ 9.00

M. I. Steblin-Kamenskii (1903-81) was a philologist, specialist in and translator of classic Scandinavian folklore. Contents: Theory of myth; Space and time in Eddic myths; Personality in Eddic myths; Myth and the formation of personality; Comments.

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Code: 003238-57
Mif v Folklornykh Traditsiiakh i Kulture

[ Myth in folklore traditions and culture : ]
Moscow: Rossiiskii gos. gumanitarnyi universitet, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 13.00

This is a collection of papers presented at the 14th Lotman Readings "Poetics of myth today" (2006). Among the contributors were: M.A. Gister, T.S. Il`ina, O.B. Khristoforova, V.B. Kolosova, S.Iu. Koroleva, T.

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Code: 029252B
Mifologicheskie Rasskazy Russkikh Krest`ian XIX-XX vv

[ 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.

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Code: 032051
Toporov, V.N
Mifologiia
Stat`i dlia Mifologicheskikh Entsiklopedii: V 2-kh Tomakh
[ Mythology : Articles for mythological encyclopedias: In 2 volumes ]
Moscow: Iazyki slavianskoi kul`tury, Znak, 2014
Language: Russian

Price: $ 59.00

This two volume publication includes articles written for encyclopedias: Mify Narodov Mira (Myths of world peoples), Slavianskaia Mifologiia (Slavic mythology) and others.

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Code: 011176B
Afanas`ev, A.N
Mify, Pover`ia i Sueveriia Slavian
Poeticheskie Vozzreniia Slavian na Prirodu: V Trekh Tomakh
[ Myths, beliefs, and superstitions of the Slavs : Poetic views of the Slavs towards nature: In three volumes ]
Moscow-St. Petersburg: EKSMO-Terra Fantastica, 2002
Language: Russian

Price: $ 78.00

The Russian philologist Aleksandr Afanas`ev (1826-1871) is widely known for his collections of Russian folk and secret tales, as well as his three volume publication originally called Poetical Views of the Slavs Towards Nature.

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Code: 013962
N.S.Trubetskoi i Sovremennaia Filologiia

[ N. S. Trubetskoi and modern philology : ]
Moscow: Nasledie, 1994
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

The works of the foremost linguist of the 20th century Nikolai Trubetskoi (1890-1938) have determined the direction of the scientific thought of his time. This collection of 17 articles is focused on the studies of his legacy and research in the areas of his interests: North Caucasian languages, folklore, and philosophy.

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Code: 007787
Lev Tolstoi: Zapisnye Knizhki

[ Notebooks : ]
Moscow: Vagrius, 2000
Language: Russian

Price: $ 9.00

Leo Tolstoi started his dairy as an eighteen year old student. This book reproduces his diaries from Tolstoi`s complete collected works. It includes his notes for 1853-1910.

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Code: 028917
Aristov, N.Ia
Ob Istoricheskom Znachenii Russkikh Razboinich`ikh Pesen

[ On the historical importance of Russian outlaw songs : ]
Moscow: LIBROKOM, 2012
Language: Russian

Price: $ 19.00

This is a reprint of the book by Russian historian and journalist N.Ia. Aristov (1834-1882) on the historical importance of Russian outlaw (highway robber) songs: from Prince Vladimir to the 17th century.

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Code: 020843
Bakhtin, V.S. (Vladimir Solomonovich)
Zhili-byli...: Razgovory s V.S. Bakhtinym

[ Once upon a time...: Conversations with V.S. Bakhtin : ]
St. Petersburg: Kompozitor, 2006
Language: Russian

Price: $ 16.00

This is a collection of conversations with a well known collector of Russian folklore Vladimir Solomonovich Bakhtin (1923-2001). The main topic of conversation is Russian folk and literary song, it birth and being in modern changing conditions.

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Code: 012762
Tysiacha Tsitat z Ukra?ns`kogo Pys`menstva

[ One thousand quotations from Ukrainian literature : ]
Kyїv: Smoloskyp, 1996
Language: Ukranian

Price: $ 22.50

This collection of quotations is from Ukrainian folklore and literature published in Ukraine and abroad. Compiled by professor Iurii Luts`kyi (Canada).

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Code: 029863
Miller, Vsevolod
Ocherki Russkoi Narodnoi Slovesnosti
Bylevoi Epos
[ Outlines of Russian folk literature : Epic stories ]
Moscow: Akademicheskii Proekt, Gaudeamus, 2013
Language: Russian

Price: $ 34.00

V.F. Miller (1848-1913) was one of the leading specialists in Russian epic poetry and the main figure at the Moscow ethnographic school, folklorist, ethnographer, and linguist. This monograph presents his ideas on the comparative method in folklore studies.

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Code: 027422-01
Pereslavskoe Zales`e
Fol`klorno-Etnograficheskoe Sobranie S.E. Elkhovskogo Vyp. 1
[ Pereslavl Zales`e : Folklore and ethnographic collection of S.E. Elkhovskii: Issue 1 ]
Moscow: Indrik, 2011
Language: Russian

Price: $ 54.00

This new volume in the series "Traditional spiritual culture of the Slavs", started in 1991, deals with folklore, ethnography and culture of Pereslav`l Zales`e, a region in Central Russia. The book comprises essays, notes and articles on folk songs, sayings, proverbs, legends, stories, and tales of the region.

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Code: 027422-02
Pereslavskoe Zales`e
Fol`klorno-Etnograficheskoe Sobranie S.E. Elkhovskogo Vyp. 2
[ Pereslavl Zales`e : Folklore and ethnographic collection of S.E. Elkhovskii: Issue 2 ]
: Indrik, 2012
Language: Russian

Price: $ 54.00

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Code: 008292
Khusainova, G.R
Poetika Bashkirskikh Narodnykh Volshebnykh Skazok

[ Poetics of Bashkir folk fairy tales : ]
Moscow: Nauka, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 17.00

This monograph studies traditional plots and stylistic components of the Bashkir tale in its evolution, versions of "Teacher" and "Pupil". Bibliography. Appendix includes a complete synoptic comparison of two versions of several tales written down in two different periods of time.

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Code: 024621
Selivanov, F.M
Poetika Bylin v Istoriko-Filologicheskom Osveshchenii
Kompozitsiia, Khudozhestvennyi Mir, Osobennosti Iazyka
[ Poetics of Russian epics in the light of history and philology : Composition, artistic world, language peculiarities ]
Moscow: Krug`, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 28.00

The book analyzes the artistic forms and poetics of Russian folk epics in terms of their contents, stage of development of social consciousness, and of folk artistic thought. Professor of philology Fedor Selivanov (1927-1990) finished this book in the late 1980s, but the manuscript was lost.

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Code: 008117
Poeziia v Kazarmakh
Russkii Soldatskii Fol`klor: Iz Sobraniia "Boian" Andreia Broido, Dzhany Kut`inoi i Iakova Broido
[ Poetry in baracks : Russian soldier folklore: From collection "Boian" of Andrei Broido, Dzhana Kut`ina and Iakov Broido ]
Moscow: OGI, 2008
Language: Russian

Price: $ 45.00

This book is the first academic publication of Russian soldier folklore. It is based on the collection "Boian" compiled by Andrei Broido, Dzhana Kut`ina and Iakov Broido and includes 1,100 written and oral songs, poems, aphorisms of the soviet and the Russian army.

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Code: 030119
Poeziia Liubvi i Mudrosti
Fol`klor i Literaturnye Pamiatniki Tadzhikistana
[ Poetry of love and wisdom : Folklore and literary monuments of Tajkistan ]
Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 35.00

This collection presents the best samples of classic folklore and literature of the Republic of Tajikistan in Russian translations. It includes the best poets of the East: Abu Abdallakh Rudaki, Omar Khaiam, Abul`kasim Firdousi, etc.

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Code: 026185
Problemy Detskoi Literatury i Fol`klor
Sbornik Nauchnykh Trudov
[ Problems of children`s literature and folklore : Collected scholarly works ]
Petrozavodsk: PetrGU, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

This is a collection of papers presented at the second All-Russian conference "Detskaia literatura: Istoriia, teoriia, sovremennost", and several articles on the same subject: Lirika dlia detei kak sistema: Otdelnye aspekty; Poetika malyshovykh stikhov Sashi Chernogo ("Detskii Ostrov")"; Osobennosti tsikla V.

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Code: 013920-05
Lekarstvo ot Zadumchivosti
Russkaia Skazka v Izdaniiakh 80-kh Godov 18 Veka
[ Remedy for pensiveness : The Russian tale in publications of the 1780s ]
St. Petersburg: Tropa Troianova, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

This fifth volume of the Complete Collection of Russian Tales contains the first printed tales of the 18th century which became rare books. It includes 27 tales from four books published in 1782-1787. Commentary, indices of plots, names, subjects, and a short dictionary of obsolete words.

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Code: 021527
Amroian, I.F
Povtor v Strukture Fol`klornogo Teksta
Na Materiale Russkikh, Bolgarskikh i Cheshskikh Skazochnykh i Zagovornykh Tekstov
[ Repetition in the structure of the folklore text : On material of Russian, Bulgarian and Czech fables and incantations texts ]
Moscow: Gos. Respublikanskii Tsentr Narodnogo Folklora, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 25.00

This monograph deals with repetition as a structural principle of folklore texts and their variety: strings, cumulation, cyclization, swing of the pendulum, repetitive epithet. Appendices. Bibliography.

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Code: 010173B
Zagadki Russkogo Naroda
Sbornik Zagadok, Voprosov, Pritch i Zadach
[ Riddles of the Russian people : A Collection of riddles, questions, parables and problems ]
Moscow: Sovremennyi Pisatel`, 1995
Language: Russian

Price: $ 37.00

This book was first published in 1876. It is the largest collection of Russian riddles. Dmitrii Sadovnikov (1847-1883) was a famous Russian ethnographer. Includes alphabetical index and commentaries.

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Code: 010462
Russkie Chastushki
Sbornik
[ Russian chastushkas : Collection ]
: Rusich, 1996
Language: Russian

Price: $ 22.50

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Code: 024515
Russkie Prostonarodnye Legendy i Rasskazy
Sbornik 1861 g.
[ Russian Common People`s Legends and Stories: Collections of 1861 : Sbornik 1861 g. ]
Novosibirsk: Nauka, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

This book is a scholarly publication of a collection of Russian folklore legends, which was published first in 1861 and has not been reprinted until now. The compiler is unknown. It includes 29 plots and 23 texts.

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Code: 003760
Russkie Zagovory iz Rukopisnykh Istochnikov XVII - Pervoi Poloviny XIX v

[ Russian exorcisms from handwritten sources of the 17th-first half of the 18th centuries : ]
Moscow: Indrik, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 54.00

This is the most complete publication of Russian exorcisms from handwritten sources of the 17th-first half of the 18th centuries. It includes about 500 texts from Russian archives with comments, indices, and illustrations.

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Code: 008287-1
Russkaia Narodnaia Mifologicheskaia Proza: Istoki i Polisemantim Obrazov
V 3-kh Tomakh: Tom Pervyi: Bylichki, Byval`shchiny, Legendy, Pover`ia o Dukhakh-"Khoziaevakh"
[ Russian folk mythological prose: Sources and poli-semanticism : In three volumes: Volume one: Bylichkas, byval`shchinas, legends, beliefs ]
: Nauka, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 28.00

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Code: 009807
Russkoe Narodnoe Poeticheskoe Tvorchestvo
Khrestomatiia
[ Russian folk poetry and prose : Reader ]
St. Petersburg: Prosveshchenie, 1993
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

This reader includes ceremonial poetry, riddles, sayings and proverbs, tales, other prose, legends, historic and lyric songs, spiritual poetry, chastushkas, folk theater, children`s and workers` folklore, and the folklore of the 1920`s to 1980`s.

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Code: 010420
Russkie Narodnye Poslovitsy i Pritchi

[ Russian folk proverbs and parables : ]
Moscow: Russkaia Kniga, 1995
Language: Russian

Price: $ 25.50

Ivan Snegirev, a Russian philologist, was appreciated by A. Pushkin and V. Dal`. This is a reprint of a book last published in 1848.

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Code: 009407
Russkie Narodnye Skazki o Machekhe i Padcheritse

[ Russian folk tales about stepmother and step-daughter : ]
Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1993
Language: Russian

Price: $ 16.50

The book includes 87 Russian magic tales about stepmother and step-daughter created in various epochs: from the 18th century to the present. Commentary and a short dictionary of obsolete words.

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Code: 015045-01
Svod Russkogo Fol`klora: Seriia "Byliny"
Tom 1: Byliny Pechory
[ Russian Folklore collection: Series "Bylinas" : Volume one: Bylinas of Pechora ]
St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2002
Language: Russian

Price: $ 43.50

This is the first volume of the Russian Folklore Collection, Series “Bylinas”, started by the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom). The series is an academic publication with introduction, commentaries, versions, and indices.

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Code: 015045-06
Svod Russkogo Fol`klora: Seriia "Byliny"
Tom 6: Byliny Kuloia
[ Russian Folklore collection: Series Bylinas : Volume six: Bylinas of Kuloi ]
St. Petersburg-Moscow: Nauka, Klassika, 2011
Language: Russian

Price: $ 82.00

This is the sixth volume of the Russian Folklore Collection, Series “Bylinas”, started by the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom). It includes bylinas collected at the basin of the Kuloi River in the Arkhangelsk Gubernia (Russian North).

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