Ghosts of Russian estates

Ghosts live not only in England. From ancient times, the Russian cemeteries inhabited the dead, not inferior to the Celtic and Norman monsters with color. At the end of the 18th century, with the awakening of interest in Western European mysticism, decent noble spirits were added to terrible folk ghosts. The monasticism and white clergy were at posthumous visits. Under the influence of these ideological movements, a set of legends about Russian ghosts was formed: village and urban folklore, pre -revolutionary prose and poetry, spiritual journalism. Many legends vary the stories familiar to us in England, subordinating the world of spirits to moral principles, Soviet etiquette, personal feelings, political passions. But many are so rich in content that the British would envy them: living monuments, underground passages, curses of architects, unclean places, horrors of behind -and -laws, etc. Ghosts have become an integral part of the domestic culture, but an authoritative attitude towards them has not yet been developed. . Therefore, the reader is free to laugh at stupid tales, sink over love tragedies, listen to edifying parables or shudder from the afterlife nightmares. He is free to believe or not to believe