Коллектив авторов - О своей земле, своей вере, настоящем и пережитом в России XX-XXI вв

Christian.
Alexandra Ippolitova and Andrey Toporkov in their publication study several versions of
bylichkas (short mythological stories) that they recorded from the same informant in
the village of Tihmaniga, Kargopoli district of Arkhangelsk region, in 1994 and 2002.
The events, described in the stories, are associated with various stages of the informant’s autobiography. Due to their autobiographical nature, the bylichkas are considered not separately but against the broad background of other prose texts in the informant’s repertoire. In comparing those texts that convey a similar motif, the authors
examine what remains stable in various situations of story-telling and what varies;
and thereby identify what elements are important for the informant. They also analyze
the hermeneutic problems of dialogue between an informant and a researcher.
The last section, “One’s Own Land and One’s Own Time,” consists of publications by ethnologists Elena Danilko and Olga Fishman.
Elena Danilko’s chapter is based on field materials, which she collected in August,
2011 in the town of Novozybkovo of the Bryansk region. She interviewed the former
residents of the Old Believers’ village Svyatsk, who were resettled after Chernobyl
catastrophe. The author tries to find answers to many questions. What meanings
does the legendary village, which played such a remarkable role in the history of
Old Believers, have for contemporary Old Believers? What losses are irreplaceable for
its former residents? How do the cultural concepts of Old Believers influence their
understanding of the disaster? In what ways do personal emotional experiences reflect group experiences? And finally, why are some of the old residents returning to
their abandoned houses and graves of their ancestors to celebrate the annual church
patrons’ festival in spite of the fact the village still poses health risks.
Olga Fishman in her work «The Image of The “Small Motherland” in Oral and Written Narratives of Tver Karelians in the Twentieth Century» presents two versions of
Tver Karelians’ local history, one of which the author recorded herself in oral interviews, and the other of which consists of the biographical texts of the first Karelian local historians in the 1970s and 1980s. The author studies the differences and
similarities in the images of a “small motherland” that has remained in people’s
memory and those narrated by an older rural and urban intelligentsia. Fishman’s
analysis demonstrates the complementary nature the sources, which she uses to
reconstruct individual and collective memories among the Tver Karelians and their
transformation over the course of the twentieth century.
Olga Fishman’s chapter on «Notebooks Containing the Tales of the Tver Karelian
Woman Anastasia F’yodorovna Lubimova» combines research with the publication
of an unpublished source, written by the Karelian woman. Lubimova wrote the tales
down in 1982 in response to Olga Fishman’s request. They are valuable because of the
author’s self-analysis of survived experience, of their expression of a high degree of historical memory, of how Russian culture have penetrated the Karelian tradition.
Illustrations in the book are mainly taken from authors’ collections; the colored inset is a photo-essay by Natalia Litvina on the contemporary life of Pomortsy
Old Believers in the Upper Kama region.

Научное издание

О своей земле,

своей вере, настоящем
и пережитом
в России XX–XXI вв.
к изучению биографического
и религиозного нарратива
Редактор Н.В. Дюмина
Младший редактор С.Д. Боярская
Оригинал-макет А.С. Старчеус

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