Ghosts of Russian estates. Volkov A.V.

Ghosts live not only in England. From ancient times, the Russian cemeteries inhabited the dead, not inferior to the Celtic and Norman monsters with color. At the end of the 18th century, with the awakening of interest in Western European mysticism, decent noble spirits were added to terrible folk ghosts. The monasticism and the white clergy were of their views on posthumous visits. Under the influence of these ideological movements, a set of legends about Russian ghosts was formed: rural and urban folklore, pre -revolutionary prose and poetry, spiritual journalism.

many legends vary the stories we know, subordinating the world of spirits to moral principles, secular etiquette, secular etiquette. personal feelings, political passions. But many are so rich in content that the British would envy them: living monuments, underground passages, curses of architects, unclean places, horrors of behind -bearing, etc. So far, fortunately, has not been developed. Therefore, the reader is free to laugh at stupid tales, sigh of love tragedies, listen to edifying parables, or shudder from the afterlife nightmares. He is free to believe or not to believe.