Dear friend of the serpent Gorynych. Lukin E.

What is common between prophetic Oleg and Zmey Gorynych? Who owns the laurels of the first Russian poet? What is the genealogy of the heroic trinity - Ilya Muromets, Dobryni Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich? What truth does Captain Lebyadkin profess in Dostoevsky’s novel “Demons”? Where are the scarlet sails of Green floating? Does it make sense in the nonsense of Alexander Vvedensky? These and many other issues of domestic literary criticism are answered by the famous St. Petersburg writer, historian, essayist Evgeny Valentinovich Lukin in his new book “Dear friend of the Serpent Gorynych”, dedicated to the problems of the Russian heroic epic, Russian classical literature and Russian art avant -garde of the twentieth century. Noting the value of the research of Evgeny Lukin, Doctor of Arts L. M. Mosolov emphasizes the originality of "the methodology of historical and cultural discourse, which allows us to make scientific discoveries in the rethinking of the textbook standards of folklore."