Russian nationality in its beliefs, rituals and fairy tales

The attention of readers is offered a book by a Russian historian, archaeologist, ethnographer D.O.Shepping (1823-1895), dedicated to the study of beliefs, rites and fairy tales of the Russian people. The work considers the Slavic pagan mythology and oral folk art, their attitude to popular life, and the cosmogonic significance of Russian fairy tales and epics is investigated. The outline of the initial history of agriculture is presented in relation to it to the life and language of the Russian people. The book introduces the reader to the folk life of our ancestors, allows you to look deeper into the history of not the specific princes of the Varangian, but the Russian common people and its moral and religious views on peace and life in general. ”
A book, written a century and a half ago (the first edition was published in 1862), will be interesting to Slavist historians, ethnologists, culturalists, as well as a wide range of readers