CONTENTS
Tatyana G. Ivanova. Yurii Alexandrovich Novikov 9
Valentina P. Kuznetsova. Yurii Alexandrovich Novikov’s Field Work in Karelia 25
Anastasia S. Lyzlova. Yurii Alexandrovich Novikov’s Records of Folk Tales in the Scientifc Archive of the Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences 48
Alla V. Nikitina. The Epic Tradition of the Kenozero Region: The Factor of Female Performance 59
Anastasiya I. Vaskul, Svetlana A. Zhadovskaya. How Epics Live: The History of a Family of Epics Performers from the Mosha River Area 76
Marina V. Reilly. Centers of the Epic Tradition in the Urals 99
Elena I. Yakubovskaya. The Problem of Tunes in the Collection of Kirsha Danilov: Vsevolod Korguzalov’s Approach to the Manuscript 112
Svetlana V. Podrezova. On the Forthcoming Obonezhie Volumes of the Svod Russkogo Folklora Series: Materials from the 1931–1932 Expeditions of the Folklore Section of the Institute for the Study of Peoples in the Collection of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom) in St. Petersburg 130
Svetlana Yu. Kharkova. A Church / a Temple / a Cathedral in the Epic World of the Russian Byliny 149
Lyudmila I. Petrova. Unpublished Spiritual Poems Recorded by Aleksandr Petrovich Vereshagin 161
Natalya G. Komelina. “A Book in the Kriukov Family of Performers”: On the Sources of the Spiritual Poem about Joseph the All-Comely from the Winter Coast of the White Sea 176
Tatyana S. Kaneva. The Ust-Tsilma Folk Tales about Ilia Muromets Performed by Marfa Alekseevna Semenova as a Part of the Local Tradition 193
Natalia V. Drannikova, Tatiana N. Morozova. The Autobiography of Tit Egorovich Tochilov (1881–1939) in the Context of the Socio-Cultural Practices and Ethnographic Realities of the Village of Zimniaia Zolotitsa 208