| Description |
400 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Ceremonial poetry connected with the calendar. Yuletide carols -- Divinatory song of the Yuletide season -- Shrovetide songs -- Songs celebrating spring -- Seventh Thursday : Whitsun songs -- Harvest songs. |
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Wedding ceremonials and chants. Matchmaking -- The bath -- The reception for the bride -- The morning of the wedding day -- Arrival of the groom in the bride's house -- Arrival home and the end of the day -- The princely table -- The parting table. |
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Funeral laments. A lament on the death of a daughter. |
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Charms. A charm against toothaches -- Love charm -- Love charm. |
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Proverbs and proverbial sayings. Love and marriage -- The wolf and the fox -- Folk wisdom on various topics. |
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Folktales : fairy tales. Chestnut-Grey -- Vasilisa the beautiful -- Maria Morevna the lovely tsarevna -- Tsarevich Ivan and the grey wolf -- Go there I know not where, fetch that I know not what. |
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Folktales : animal tales. The fox and the crane -- The bear -- The muzhik, the bear, and the fox. |
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Folktales : tales of everyday life. The gossipy wife -- How the poor man dined with his lord. |
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The Russian folk epos. Volkh Vseslavevich -- Dobrynia and the dragon -- Aliosha Popovich and Tugarin Zmeevich -- Ilia Muromets and Nightingale the brigand -- The ship of Sadko stood still at sea -- Vasilii Buslaevich. |
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Historical songs. The capture of Kazan -- The Swedish king wants to capture Poltava -- Peter the First is sailing -- A soldier mourns the death of Peter the Great -- Suvorov transports his army across the sea -- The beginning of the uprising on the Iaik -- Pugachev and Panin. |
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The ballad. Tartar captivity -- Prince Roman rid himself of his wife -- The young lad and the princess -- A young lad and the river Smorodina -- Down the Volga. |
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Religious verses. The book of the dove -- Forty pilgrims and one -- Joseph's lament. |
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Songs of serfdom -- Love lyrics -- The chastushka [folk rhyme]. Chastushki. |
| Subject |
Folklore -- Soviet Union.
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Folk literature, Soviet.
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| Added Author |
Alexander, Alex E.
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| ISBN |
$16.95 |
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091312406c |
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