About the funeral customs of pagan Slavs

Reprint from the publication. Printing house K.A. Popova, Moscow, 1868. Kotlyarevsky Alexander Alexandrovich (1837-1881) - Slavist, archaeologist and ethnographer. The book considers the funeral rite of the Slavic pagan as a manifestation of their ideas about the soul and afterlife. The ideas, concepts and beliefs that belong to the end of human life are given with a funeral rite and determine its order. A variety of sources are given - the language, folk life of the Slavs, written traditions, preserved by the annals of different Slavic peoples, grave monuments, materials of archaeological excavations, as well as the traditions and customs of other Indo -European tribes. The book consists of two parts: the first is devoted to sources, the second is a systematic and partly historical review of the concepts of pagan Slavs about the posthumous existence and their funeral customs. The book is interesting to ethnologists, historians, Slavists, culturalists, religious scholars, philosophers, psychologists and a wide circle of readers who want to get acquainted with funeral customs