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Researcher, Kizhi State Open-Air Museum of History, Architecture and Ethnography
One of the trends of contemporary folklore research is the study of provincial folklorists’ biographies, as well as their work collecting and publishing folklore. This article presents one such biography based on newly obtained archival materials concerning Helliodore Rusov, a veterinarian by profession. Rusov’s biography is quite unusual because of his many changes of residence; he moved from one corner of the Russian empire to another, and after the Revolution of 1917, left the country altogether. As a folklore collector, Rusov published two selections of texts in “The Olonets Provincial Gazette”, one of spells and the other of tales. The latter is a genre of folklore rarely published in periodicals from Olonets province. Together with a biographical study of Rusov, the article discusses the place of these tales’ plots within the Russian tradition. The author finds that among them there are not only common ones but also those that are rare and deserving of further study
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