Ilya Muromets and Kiev’s richness: comparative-critical observations over the layer of the folk Russian epic. Miller O.F.

This publication is the first modern publication of labor to become a kind of Magnum Opus a prominent representative of Slavophilism, the only Slavophile of German origin - Orest Fedorovich Miller, who devoted his whole life to the study of Russian literature and writing. The editors of this publication were most carefully approached with the text of the doctoral dissertation by O. Miller, while maintaining the author’s narrative style and adapting the text for the modern reader. The publication attempt to consider O. Miller not only as a folklorist, but also a unique scientist who anticipated comparative, literary and even religious trends that will be carried away by researchers of Slavic folklore and epic in the 20th century. and the scale of the work done by O. Miller, the real edition of his manuscript is of great interest not only for specialists who are interested in the problems of the Slavic epic epic, but also for a wide range of readers interested in the history of literature, folklore and world mythology.