Abrosimova D. D., D. D. OBONEZHYE FOLK CALENDAR IN THE “OLONETSKIYE GUBERNSKIYE VEDOMOSTI” NEWSPAPER AND IN EXPEDITION RECORDS // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2019. No 3 (180). P. 41–48. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2019.307


Literary studies

OBONEZHYE FOLK CALENDAR IN THE “OLONETSKIYE GUBERNSKIYE VEDOMOSTI” NEWSPAPER AND IN EXPEDITION RECORDS

Abrosimova D. D.
D. D. 		Kizhi State Open-Air Museum of History
Keywords:
folk calendar
feasts
“Olonetskiye Gubernskiye Vedomosti”
Obonezhye		 Summary: The article considers data on the traditional festive and working calendar of the Russians in the Olonets province. The materials studied cover articles by local correspondents published in the unofficial part of the “Olonetskiye Gubernskiye Vedomosti” newspaper (1838–1917) and expedition records of the 20th – early 21st century including those in the scientific archives of the Kizhi Open-Air Museum and the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. As a result of the comparison of the earlier and later materials, the author concludes that field records sometimes contain the information on calendar rites and rituals that are not found in the articles of the “OGV” newspaper or that are not covered in them fully enough. The reason for that, the author suggests, might be local correspondents’ insufficient skills in ethnographic observation in some cases. Thus, the “OGV” cannot be relied on as the only source for studying peasant calendar. For the full picture, it is necessary to draw other materials, including later field collections.



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