Dear friend of the serpent Gorynych

"What is common between prophetic Oleg and Zmey Gorynych? Who owns the laurels of the first Russian poet? What is the genealogy of the heroic trinity - Ilya Muromets, Dobryni Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich? What truth does Captain Lebyadkin profess in Dostoevsky’s novel ”demons? Where are the scarlet sails of Green floating? Does it make sense in the nonsense of Alexander Vvedensky?

The famous St. Petersburg writer, historian, essayist Evgeny Valentinovich Lukin in his new book "Dear Gorynych"s Friend, dedicated to the problems of the Russian heroic epic, Russian classical literature and Russian artistic avant -garde of the twentieth century, answer these and many other questions of domestic literary criticism. Noting the value of research by Evgeny Lukin, Doctor of Arts L. M. Mosolov emphasizes the originality of the "methodology of historical and cultural discourse, which allows us to make scientific discoveries in the rethinking of the textbook standards of folklore". "