2026. Vol. 27. № 2

FAIRY TALE ANNIVERSARY: V. GRIMM AND A. N. AFANASIEV
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Irina V. Mischacheva Illustrations to the Brothers Grimm’s “Children’s and Household Tales” (Braun and Schneider, 1894): Hermann Vogel’s “German style” 11-27
Anastasia S. Lyzlova, Svetlana V. Podrezova A. N. Afanas’ev’s “Russian Folk Tales”: On the History of Its Creation and on Some of Its Sources 28-42
Varvara E. Dobrovol’skaya The Collection “Russian Folk Tales” by A. N. Afanas’ev as a Source of the Repertoire of Storytellers in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries: The Case of Nina Andreevna Chechikhina 43-55
Arina I. Mozgerina Women’s Images in Nineteenth — TwentiethCenturies Illustrations to Fairy Tales from A. N. Afanas’ev’s Collection: Between Salvation and Fatal Predetermination 56-65
Tatyana A. Zabolotnaya, Anastasia A. Mosina Interpretation of Fairy Tale Themes in Twentieth-Century Porcelain Sculpture 66-81
POETICS OF SONG TRADITIONS
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Taisiya V. Khlybova The Concept of Envy and Its Functioning in Spiritual Verses 82-94
Valentina P. Mironova, Vera A. Shvetsova The Olonets/Livvi Karelian Tradition of Lamentation: Its Contemporary State 95-108
Alexander M. Petrov Several Late Northern Russian Recordings of the Serbian Ballad about Jovo and Mara (From the Archives of the Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences) 109-118
Klara E. Korepova “Little Stories About Little Facts” (The Chastushka — a Lyrical Miniature) 119-131
PEOPLES OF RUSSIA — THE NORTHERN MERIDIAN
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Alexandra V. Vasilyeva, Ludmila S. Efimova The Yakut Toyuk: The Northern Regional Tradition 132-143
Praskovya E. Prokopeva An Old Woman Clinging to the Edge of the Hearth: the Semantics of Image and Motif in a Forest Yukaghir Fairy Tale 144-157
Lidia E. Fetisova Ukaghir Narrative Folklore: Traditions and Innovations 158-167
FROM THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
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Ruslan F. Pyataev S. N. Azbelev — The Researcher of Russian Historical Song (Оn the 100th Anniversary of the Scientist’s Birth) 168-175
BOOK REVIEW
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Tatyana S. Kaneva Nizhny Novgorod Chastushkas of the 1920s–1930s in a Modern Perspective 176-184
Maria V. Zavyalova A Monograph on the Lithuanian God of Thunder 185-190
IN MEMORIUM
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Alla Ivanovna Alieva (19.12.1935 – 13.06.2026) 191