Russian North: Kareliia, Arkhangelsk, Vologda

Code: 016455
Karel`skii Fol`klor
Khrestomatiia
[ Karel`skii Fol`klor : Khrestomatiia ]
Petrozavodsk: Kareliia, 1992
Language: Russian and Karel

Price: $ 22.50

This is an anthology of Karelian folklore of all genres: songs, prose, lamentation, childish, sayings, enigmas, etc. Parallel text in Russian and Karelian. The anthology was prepared by the Karelian Institute of Language, Literature, and History.

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Code: 007244-1
Brumfild, Uil`iam. (Brumfield, William )
Tot`ma
Arkhitekturnoe Nasledie v Fotografiiakh
[ Tot`ma : Arkhitekturnoe Nasledie v Fotografiiakh ]
Moscow: Tri Kvadrata, 2005
Language: Russian and English

Price: $ 33.00

This photo album of the architectural monuments in the Tot`ma region of the Russian North was made by professor of Slavic Studies William Brumfeld (Tulane University). He is one of the leading specialists in the Russian North.

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Code: 007244-8
Buriatia
Arkhitekturnoe Nasledie v Fotografiiakh
[ Buriatia : Arkhitekturnoe Nasledie v Fotografiiakh ]
: Tri Kvadrata, 2008
Language: Russian and English

Price: $ 39.00

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Code: 001512
Ivanova, T.G
Malye" Ochagi Severnorusskoi Bylinnoi Traditsii
Issledovanie i Teksty
[ "Small" locuses of the northern Russian bylina traditions : Studies and texts ]
St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 45.00

This monograph studies five local Northern-Russian traditions of the Russian bylina folklore form. The monograph includes five essays summarizing the history and specific characteristics of regional bylina traditions and some new versions of bylinas, also by region.

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Code: 006026
Smol`nikov, S.N
Antroponimiia v Delovoi Pis`mennosti Russkogo Severa XVI-XVII vv.
Funktsional`nye i Modal`nye Otnosheniia
[ Antroponymics in business correspondence of the Russian North in the 16th-17th centuries : Functional and modal relations ]
St. Petersburg: Izd-vo SPGU, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

This is a book on the history of Russian onomasiology and theory of linguistic analysis of proper names of the Russian North in the 16th-17th centuries. Bibliography.

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Code: 007354-2
Grigor`ev, A.D
Arkhangel`skie Byliny i Istoricheskie Pesni, Sobrannye A.D. Grigor`evym
V 3-kh Tomakh
[ Arkhangel`sk bylinas and historic songs collected by A.D. Grigor`ev : In three books ]
Moscow: Tropa Troianova, 2002
Language: Russian

Price: $ 129.00

This is the second volume in three books of the series Complete Collection of Russian Epos. The first volume was a reprint of the manuscript collection of Russian poetry transcribed by Kirsha Danilov in the mid 18th century (also available).

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Code: 029973
Kedrov, N.G
Lapti Stalinizma
Politicheskoe Soznanie Krest`ianstva Russkogo Severa v 1930-e Gody.
[ Bast shoes of Stalinism : Political consciousness of the peasantry of the Russian North in the 1930s ]
Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2013
Language: Russian

Price: $ 25.00

This book studies the political regime of Stalinism, in particular the relationship between the government and the most numerous group of the Russian population in 1930s – the peasants. The author analyzes the communication practice, the identity of the group, the reception of political propaganda and the representation of peasants in the political institutions in the USSR.

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Code: 025663
Belozersk
Fotoal`bom
[ Belozersk: Photo album : Fotoal`bom ]
: Tri Kvadrata, 2011
Language: Russian and English

Price: $ 79.00

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Code: 029922
Kuznetsov, S.K. (Stefan Kirovich)
Biarmia. Nevedomaia Strana
Obzor Istoricheskikh, Arkheologicheskikh i Etnograficheskikh Dannykh: Kurs Lektsii, Prochitannykh v Moskovskom Arkheologicheskom Institute v 1907-1909 gg.
[ Biarmia. Mysterious country : Survey of historical, archeological and ethnographic facts: Course of lectures delivered to the Moscow Archeological Institute in 1907-1909 ]
Moscow: Meria press, 2013
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

This is a reprint of the course of lectures given at the Moscow Archeological Institute in 1907-1909. The topic of the lectures is Beormas, or Bjarmland, a territory mentioned in Norse sagas up to the Viking Age and beyond, and in geographical accounts until the 16th century.

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Code: 016934
Kolpakova, N.P
U Zolotykh Rodnikov
Zapiski Fol`klorista
[ By golden springs : Notes of folklorists ]
Moscow: Russkaia Zemlia, 2002
Language: Russian

Price: $ 19.50

This is a book of memoirs by Natal`ia Kolpakova (1902-1994), a specialist in the folklore of the Russian North. Most of her notes made in her field studies are about her encounters with people of Zaonezh`e, their traditions, beliefs, songs, and life style.

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Code: 004550
Zakharova, O.V
Byliny: Poetika Siuzheta
Uchebnoe Posobie
[ Bylinas: The Poetics of plot : Textbook ]
Petrozavodsk: Izd-vo Petrazavodskogo Universiteta, 1997
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

This is a textbook for a graduate program course on Russian philology analyzes the plots of bylinas in the context of historical poetics. The author continues the tradition of epic studies started by the dynasty of the Riabinis-Andreevs.

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Code: 030798-1
Ivanova, L.I
Personazhi Karel`skoi Mifologicheskoi Prozy
Issledovaniia i Teksty Bylichek, Byval`shchin, Poverii i Verovanii Karelovi: Ch. 1
[ Characters from Karelian mythological prose : Research and texts of stories, legends, superstitions and beliefs of the Karelians. Part 1 ]
Moscow: Russkii Fond Sodeistviia Obrazovaniiu i Nauke, 2012
Language: Russian

Price: $ 53.00

This book studies Karelian mythology, mythological characters, ancient rituals, beliefs, spells, and epic songs. It is the first complex study on the subject. About 400 texts are studied for the first time in Russian translation with the author`s philological analysis.

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Code: 017286
Mitin, I.I
Kompleksnye Geograficheskie Kharakteristiki
Mnozhestvennye Real`nosti Mest i Semiozis Prostranstvennykh Mifov
[ Complex geographical characteristics : Plural realities of places and semiosis of space mythes ]
Smolensk: Oikumena, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

This monograph deals with a methodology of complex geographic description (CGD) or creating a graphically vivid and understandable image of territories. This new field of study is called by the author humanitarian geography.

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Code: 014193
Kul`tura Russkogo Severa
Materialy Konferentsii "Puti Sokhraneniia Kul`turnogo Naslediia Russkogo Severa": Arkhangel`sk - Pinega - Kargopol
[ Culture of the Russian North : Conference materials ]
Moscow: Institut naslediia, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 25.00

This collection of proceedings deals with issues of preservation of the cultural legacy of the Russian North: Arkhangel`sk - Pinega - Kargopol. (0.255 kg.)

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Code: 029318-2
Akty Novgorodskogo Viazhishchskogo Monastyria Kontsa XV - Nachala XVII V
Vypusk 2
[ Deeds of Novgorod Nikolo-Vyazhishchskii Monastery of the late 15th - early 17th centuries: Vol. 2 : Vypusk 2 ]
Moscow: Rukopisnye Pamiatniki Drevnei Rusi, 2013
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

This is the second volume of the most complete collection of deeds of the Novgorod Nikolo-Vyazhishchskii Monastery of the late 15th - early 17th centuries. It includes 105 deeds for 1478-1613, some of them are published for the first time.

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Code: 024249
Podvysotskii, A.O
Slovar` Oblastnogo Arkhangel`skogo Narechiia v Ego Bytovom i Etnograficheskom Primenenii

[ Dictionary of the regional Arkhangelsk dialect in its everyday and ethnographic usage : ]
Moscow: OGI, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 42.00

The dictionary, the first dictionary of regional lexics, compiled in 1885 by Aleksandr Podvysotskii (1825-1883) was awarded with the Lomonosov prize. The book includes about 9,000 words and expressions used by the population of Arkhangelsk Gubernia.

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Code: 024233
Pobeditel` Zmeia
Iz Severnorusskikh Skazok: 15 Skazok v Zapisi A.I. Nikiforova
[ Dragon slayer : From North Russian tales: 15 tales annotated by A.I. Nikiforov ]
Moscow: OGI, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 17.00

The book is the anthology of unique fairytale texts based on one plot, St. George and the dragon. They were collected by the outstanding Russian folklorist and historian of Old Russian literature Aleksandr Nikiforov (1893-1942) during the folklore expedition of 1926-1928 in the districts of Lake Onega and the Pinega and Mezenia Rivers.

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Code: 025267
Lazarev, E.S
Druidy Russkogo Severa

[ Druids of the Russian North : ]
Moscow: Veche, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 19.00

This book is about the sacred geography of the Russian North. Megalithic monuments of the region of Belozer`e are described based on comparative studies of linguistic and mythological sources. (0.375 kg.

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Code: 021441
Ushakov, N.V
Zhilishche Sankt-Peterburgskoi Gubernii Nachala XX Veka

[ Dwelling of St. Petersburg Gubernia at the beginning of the XX cent. : ]
St. Petersburg: Muzei Antropologii i Etnografii Im. Petra Velikogo (Kunstkamera), 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 19.00

This monograph studies the folk dwellings of peoples of the Baltic-Finn language group who lived in the St. Petersburg Gubernia at the beginning of the twentieth century: Vodi, Izhors, and Ingermland Finns.

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Code: 024893
Leonov, Leonid
Leonid Leonov. Ranniaia Proza

[ Early prose : ]
Moscow: OGI, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

This is a collection of early prose by Leonid Leonov based on materials of his life in the Russian North in 1920’s, written in the local northern dialect and reflecting the specific color of their culture.

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Code: 014891-2
Etnokonfessionalnaia Karta Leningradskoi Oblasti i Sopredelnykh Territorii - 2
Tret`e Shegrenovskie Chteniia: Sbornik Statei
[ Ethno-Confessional map of the Leningrad Oblast and contiguous territories - 2 : The Third A. M. Shegren readings: Collection of articles ]
St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii Dom, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 22.00

The present collection contains articles by Russian and Finnish scholars prepared on the basis of the reports made at the Third Sjogren (A. M. Shegren, 1794-1855) readings held in 2008, which continued the study of the ethno-confessional map of the Leningrad region and neighboring territories.

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Code: 019429
Gadlo, A. V., Verniaev, I.I., Egorov, S.B., Chistiakov, A.Iu
Etnografiia Severo-Zapada Rossii
Iuzhnye Okrestnosti Peterburga: Priladozh`e—Tsentral`nye Raiony Pskovshchiny
[ Ethnography of Northwestern Russia : Southern outskirts of St. Petersburg: Preladozh`e (Central district of Pskov) ]
St. Petersburg: Izd-vo S.-Peterburgskogo Un-ta, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

This book publishes the results of ethnographic field studies in the southern outskirts of St. Petersburg: Pskov and Novgorod areas. The study of these areas were started 1920s. Many of the ethnographers were repressed before they finished their work.

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Code: 007663
Belov, V.I
Povsednevnaia Zhizn` Russkogo Severa
Ocherki o Byte i Narodnom Iskusstve Krest`ian Vologodskoi, Arkhangel`skoi i Kirovskoi Oblastei
[ Everyday life of the Russian North : Essays on the life and folk art of the peasants of the Vologda, Arkhangel`sk and Kirov Oblasts ]
Moscow: Molodaia Gvardiia, 2000
Language: Russian

Price: $ 17.00

Vasilii Belov, a well known modern Russian writer, has collected the folklore of his native land all his life. This book is both a poetic and academic work on the life cycle of peasant life in the Russian North.

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Code: 021686
Tiurin, G.V
Opyt Vozrozhdeniia Russkikh Dereven`

[ Experiment in the rebirth of the Russian villages : ]
Moscow: Pokolenie, 2007
Language: Russian

Price: $ 16.00

The Institute for Social and Humanitarian Initiative has a positive ten-year long experiment of restoring local self-government in villages of the Russian North. Gleb Tiurin and his comrades-in-arm consulted many villages and helped them to improve their life style, create new work places, and start new projects.

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Code: 011706
Fedianovich, T
Semeinye Obychai i Obriady Finno-Ugorskikh Narodov Uralo-Povolzh`ia
Konets XIX veka- 1980 gody
[ Family traditions and rituals of Finno-Ugor peoples from Ural-Volga Region : Late 19th cent.-1980s ]
Moscow: Institut Etnologii i Antropologii RAN, 1997
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

This book describes birth, marriage, and burial customs of various Finno-Ugrian peoples. The author points to the adverse influence of education and urbanization on rituals, to modification of rituals, and their current formal use.

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Code: 015547-2
Narodnye Kul`tury Russkogo Severa: Fol`klornyi Entitet Etnosa
Vypusk 2: Materialy Rossiisko-finskogo Simpoziuma
[ Folk cultures of the Russian North : Issue two: Materials of the Russian-Finnish symposium ]
Arkhangel`sk: Pomorskii Gosuniversitet, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 27.00

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.

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Code: 014909
Ukhanova, I.N
Narodnoe Dekorativno-Prikladnoe Iskusstvo Gorodov i Posadov Russkogo Severa Kontsa XVII-XIX Vekov

[ Folk decorative applied art of the towns and settlements of the Russian North : Late XVII-XIX centuries ]
St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 37.00

The monograph studies various forms of folk decorative applied art of the towns and settlements of the Russian North: objects of everyday life, religious objects, books, frescos, icon framework, fabrics, lubok, sculpture, painting, and more.

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Code: 026927
Dlia Pol`zy Obshchestva Kol` Radostno Trudit`sia
K 300-Letiiu so Dnia Rozhdeniia M.V. Lomonosova
[ For the benefit of society if you work gaily : On the 300th anniversary of the birth of M.V. Lomonosov ]
Moscow: Zvonnitsa, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 30.00

Collection of articles by historians from the place of birth of the great Russian scholar Mikhailo Lomonosov, Pomor`e (Russian North). Contents: Normanskaia teoriia i bor`ba M.V. Lomonosova s normanistam; Mikhail Vasil`evich Lomonosov i kul`tura russkogo Severa; Znachenie idei M.

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Code: 013176
Lobanov, M.A
Lesnye Klichi
Vokal`nye Melodii - Signaly na Severo-Zapade Rossii
[ Forest calls : Vocal melody signals in North-West Russia ]
St. Petersburg: Izd-vo S.-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, 1997
Language: Russian

Price: $ 21.00

This is the first publication about the genre of traditional peasant vocal music of the North-West of Russia. The author was the first who started to tape this music and study it. The book consists of two parts.

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Code: 025380
Zorin, A.I
Ot Krestin do Pokhoron - Odin Den`
Eparkhial`nye Ocherki, Dar Valdaia, Rasskazy
[ From christening ro funeral - one day : Eparchial essays, gift of Valdai, stories ]
Moscow: Novyi khronograf, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 32.00

This is a collection of documentary prose about the Russian North. The internatnional Orthodox organization IOCC donated humanitarian help to Russia in the 1990s. Russian Orthodox Church distributed donated food in the rural area around Lake Valdai.

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