IVAN the FOOL: Russian Folk Belief: A Cultural History (New Russian Writing)

IVAN the FOOL: Russian Folk Belief: A Cultural History (New Russian Writing) image
ISBN-10:

5717200773

ISBN-13:

9785717200776

Edition: 1
Released: Nov 11, 2007
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
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Description:

This masterly and extremely readable survey covers folk superstitions and customs, house and nature spirits, pagan gods, Christianization, saints, icons, the Schism, Old Believers, religious sects, and the characters and symbolism in Russian fairy tales that could be called the origin of the Russian psyche.

Andrei Sinyavsky (1925–1997) was also known as Abram Tertz.


























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