Поэтические воззрения славян на природу: Опыт сравнительного изучения славянских преданий и верований в связи с мифическими сказаниями других родственных народов, Том I

Поэтиеския воззрения славян на природу #1-3

by Alexander Afanasyev, Александр Николаевич Афанасьев

Itogom mnogoletnego issledovatel'skogo opyta istorika i fol'klorista Afanas'eva A. N. (1826-1871) yavilis' "Poeticheskie vozzreniya slavyan na prirodu" - fundamental'nyj trud, posvyaschennyj istoriko-filologicheskomu analizu yazyka i fol'klora slavyan i svyazi s yazykom i fol'klorom drugih indoevropejskih narodov. Ego trud do sih por ne prevzojden v mirovoj nauke o fol'klore. Kniga istorika i fol'klorista Afanas'eva A. N. (1826-1871) vyyavlyaet svyazi yazyka i predanij, bolee togo, voskreshaet osnovy russkogo myshleniya, chto osobenno vazhno sejchas, kogda yazyk i myshlenie russkogo cheloveka izurodovany gazetnymi shtampami, blatnym zhargonom i slengom vsyakogo roda, zamusoreny inostrannymi slovami. This book, "Poeticheskie vozzreniya slavyan na prirodu Opyt sravnitel'nogo izucheniya slavyanskih predanij i verovanij, v svyazi s mificheskimi skazaniyami rodstvennyh narodov. Tom 1," by A.N. Afanas'ev, is a replication of a book originally published before 1865. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.

808 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev (Russian: Александр Николаевич Афанасьев) was a Russian folklorist who recorded and published over 600 Russian folktales and fairytales, by far the largest folktale collection by any one man in the world. His first collection was published in eight volumes from 1855-67, earning him the reputation of a Russian counterpart to the Brothers Grimm.

Born in 1826 in Boguchar, in Voronezh Governate, he grew up in Bobrov, becoming an early reader thanks to the library of his grandfather, a member of the Russian Bible Society. He was educated at the Voronezh gymnasium and from 1844-48 he studied law at the University of Moscow. Despite being a promising student, he did not become a professor, due largely to attacks upon his work by the conservative Minister of National Enlightenment, Count Sergey Uvarov.

Afanasyev worked for thirteen years at the Moscow's Main Archive Directorate under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire, during which time he also amassed a huge library and published numerous articles and reviews. In 1862 he was fired from his position, because of his association with philosopher Alexander Herzen. Jobless for a number of years thereafter, he sold his library in order to support his family, eventually finding work as a secretary at the Moscow City Duma and at the Moscow Congress of Justices of the Peace.

Afanasyev wrote a large theoretical work (three volumes of 700 pages each) – "The Poetic Outlook of Slavs about Nature" (Поэтические воззрения славян на природу) – which came out between 1865 and 1869. In 1870 his Русские детские сказки (Russian Children's Fairy Tales) were published. He died in poverty in 1871, at the age of forty-five.

(source: Wikipedia)