Russian folk tales and superstitious stories about evil spirits
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Russian folk tales and superstitious stories about evil spirits
19.99 €
The collection includes fairy tales, legends, and superstitions of the Russian people, collected and published in 1910–1911 by the ethnographer Alexander Evgenievich Burtsev (1863–1938). The 468 drawings and design elements in the book were created by artists Leonid (Johann) Pavlovich Albrecht (1872–1942), Mikhail Abramovich Balunin (1875–?), Nikolai Nikolaevich Gerardov (1873–1919), Afanasy De Paldo, Luka Timofeevich Zlotnikov (1878–1918), Vasily Grigorievich Malyshev (1843–?), Lidiya Alekseevna Poltoratskaya (1864–?), Vasily Ivanovich Tkachenko (1880–?), and Alexey Nikolaevich Tretyakov (1873–?). First guild merchant, honorary citizen of St. Petersburg Alexander Evgenievich Burtsev (1863-1938) was born in one of the villages of the Vologda province into a wealthy peasant family. At the age of nineteen, he moved to the capital, first worked in his uncle's money-changing shop, and then moved to the office of the brothers Vasily and Pavel and managed it until 1917. Thanks to skillful management, the family business was transformed into the "Banking Office of the Burtsev Brothers" - one of the largest banking houses in Russia at that time. At the age of thirty, the rich Alexander Evgenievich became interested in collecting; He collected rare books, illustrated editions, magazines and newspapers, lithographs and paintings, historical documents and autographs, including letters from I. A. Goncharov, F. M. Dostoevsky, A. G. Rubinstein, M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, I. S. Turgenev, and A. P. Chekhov. Burtsev's collection included about 1,500 graphic works, as well as over 150 paintings by V. L. Borovikovsky, K. P. Bryullov, V. E. Makovsky, K. S. Petrov-Vodkin, N. K. Roerich, S. Yu. Sudeikin, and many others. Burtsev's collection of paintings and graphics was so large that he even planned to create a Museum of Russian Art within the walls of his home. In 1892–1893 Alexander Evgenievich made a number of trips to the Russian North, where he bought antiques from peasants, studied local folklore, wrote down fairy tales, legends, traditions and other ethnographic materials about the faith, spiritual concepts, customs, work, life and holidays of the Russian people. Since 1895, Burtsev took up publishing activities - not for sale, but to preserve monuments of Russian art and antiquity. He reprinted rare books, released multi-volume thematic descriptions of his library, reproductions, almanacs, collections, magazines, his own works on bibliography, and among them - "My leisure: an artistic and ethnographic collection", offered to the modern reader in this edition. It was first published in 1910-1911 in 11 volumes in a limited edition (about 500 copies); even during the author's lifetime, the publication became a bibliographic rarity.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Library of World Literature