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Pigin, A. V. FOLKLORE IN RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY VLADIMIR IVANOVICH MALYSHEV: COMMEMORATING HIS 50TH DEATH ANNIVERSARY. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2026;48(5):113–120. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2026.1342
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FOLKLORE IN RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY VLADIMIR IVANOVICH MALYSHEV: COMMEMORATING HIS 50TH DEATH ANNIVERSARY
| Pigin A. V. | Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushkinskij Dom); arelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
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Keywords: V. I. Malyshev Protopope Avvakum folklore studies archaeography epics ballads historical legends proverbs handwritten books “The Tale of Sukhan” |
Summary: Vladimir Ivanovich Malyshev was an outstanding archaeographer, researcher of manuscript books, and
the founder of the Pushkin House Repository of Ancient Manuscripts, which bears his name. Malyshev’s archaeo-
graphic work has been the subject of numerous studies, but this is the first time that his contribution to folklore studies has been analyzed. The relevance of this research is due to the interest of modern philology in the history of Russian
folklore studies. The article is based on Malyshev’s publications, his unpublished notebooks, and the recollections of
his colleagues and friends. Malyshev’s interests primarily focused on classical folklore genres such as epics, ballads,
songs, legends, and proverbs. For many years, the scholar collected oral legends about Protopope Avvakum and his
companions in the Pustozersk exile. He was interested in these texts as historical sources for reconstructing the lost facts
of their biographies. Malyshev’s notebooks contain texts of legends, proverbs, ditties, and anecdotes that he recorded
during his expeditions and, during the last years of his life, in the Udelny Park in Leningrad. Folklore texts also attracted
the scholar’s attention as sources of literary works. In his book dedicated to the seventeenth-century “Tale of Sukhan”,
he undertook a textual analysis of all known recordings of the epic about Sukhan (Sukhman), which formed the basis for this ancient Russian text. The article includes three folklore works recorded by Malyshev during his expedition to Pechora in 1934 and published in the hard-to-find newspaper Za Proletarskie Kadry (For the Proletarian Workforce). |
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