FOLKLORE IN A. A. BOGODUROV'S NOTES |
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| 2025 |
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| scientific article | 398.86 | ||
| 113-156 | А.А. Богодуров, Л.Н. Толстой, М. Горький, К.Д. Бальмонт, Л.Г. Граве, краеведение, фольклор, русская частушка, русская народная лирика, любительская фольклористика, A.A. Bogodurov, L.N. Tolstoy, M. Gorky, K.D. Balmont, L.G. Grave, local history, folklore, Russian chastushka, Russian folk lyrics, amateur folklore |
| The article traces in detail the life and creative path of Alexander Alaverdievich Bogodurov, a representative of the Nizhny Novgorod intelligentsia of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries, a public figure related to the family of the famous local archivist and historian A.Ya. Sadovsky. The variety of Bogodurov's creative interests is shown. The text of his unsent letter to Leo Tolstoy is published for the first time. Also, the article contains the first analysis of his critical article "On Balmont". The 163 importance of Bogodurov's local history research in relation to the work of the poet L.G. Grave is emphasized. The article focuses on the interpretation of folklore materials collected by Bogodurov in the 1890s in Arzamas district of Nizhny Novgorod province. It presents a description and analysis of his folklore collection: the characteristics of the manuscript itself, the problem of its dating, and the composition of the records. For the first time, the texts of songs and ditties recorded by A.A. Bogodurov are published and introduced into scientific circulation. The ditties represent a particular scientific value as these records are among the earliest for Russian, as well as Nizhny Novgorod tradition. The published texts are accompanied by textual commentaries. |
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