Treasured stories of the South Slavs. In 2 volumes

In 2009, it turned 150 years since the birth of an outstanding Jewish-Croatian folklorist, writer and sexologist Friedrich Salomo Krauss (1859-1938) The domestic reader the legacy of the Austrian scientist is almost unknown, although his unique collection of the erotic folklore of the South Slavic peoples of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which prevail during the Krauss Expedition of 1884-1885 in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Slavonia and Dalmatia, can be delivered in one row with famous" National Russian fairy tales not for print "A.N. Afanasyev and "Baiki not for print" V.N. Gnatyuk.
This Russian edition of the cherished stories of the South Slavs" was preceded by three articles - the first two, purely historical and biographical character, were published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences as part of Tom dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the death of F.-S. Crausus, the third - opens a collection of "People"s Traditions of the Southern Slavs", prepared on the basis of Craussian archives and released in Vienna in 2002. Placed together, articles allow for a large-scale idea of ​​the author"s personality of this book