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DSc in Philology, Chief Scientific Researcher, Department of Folklore, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences
Research for this article was carried out under the Russian Foundation for Humanities project No. 16-0400006 "History of Russian academic Caucasian studies in essays and biographies".
The scholarly heritage of the outstanding Russian thinker philologist Nikolai S. Trubetskoy (1890–1938), whose works in the fields of Philology, Ethnology, and the History of Culture contributed to the creation of new scholarly directions and disciplines, and who emigrated from Russia in 1920, began to return to his homeland only in the 1960s. For more than half a century since then, Trubetskoy’s major works on General, European and Caucasian Linguistics, the history of Russian literature, and problems of Eurasianism have been published in our country. Unfortunately, until now Trubetskoy’s work on the folklore of the peoples of the North Caucasus, mainly that of the Adyghe peoples, has not been acknowledged by scholars. For the first time this article describes the totality of these works that Trubetskoy wrote in his student years. The article also describes two expeditions Trubetskoy took in 1910 and 1911 to areas where Adygeans lived. The scholar not only thoroughly studied the Adygeian language, but also collected considerable material on the pagan mythology and folklore of the Adyghe peoples, which he studied and prepared for publication, together with an Adygeian grammar. The article briefly describes the tragic fate of these materials that were irretrievably lost. However, after twenty years Trubetskoy was able to restore much that his remarkable memory was able to preserve in the article “Memories of My Sojourn with the Adygeans in the Tuapse Region”. Published in German in the journal “Caucasica”, this article, still mostly unknown to Russian scholars of the Caucasus, is published here for the first time in Russian translation.
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