Russian heroic epic

Vladimir Yakovlevich PrPP is an outstanding domestic philologist, one of the founders of the structural and typological approach in folklorism, which later received wide application in literary criticism. His works on the study of folklore (“Morphology of the Tale”, “The historical roots of a fairy tale”, “Russian heroic epic”, “Russian agrarian holidays”, etc) were included in the Golden Fund of World Science of the twentieth century.
The book “Russian Heroic Epos” (1955) was the first and still the only fundamental study dedicated to the epics. V.Ya. Propp undertook their plot-thematic and poetic analysis. This work of the scientist is a kind of reference book in the Russian epic - from the first epic hero of the Volkha Vseslavievich to the well -known Ilya Muromets, Dobryni, Vasily Buslaevich and others. The abundance of actual material and the systematic analysis makes this book interesting not only for specialists in folklore, but also For all connoisseurs of folk culture. In many ways ahead of his time, the work of V.Ya. Proppa has become a classic of humanitarian research and has not yet lost their relevance