Kaliki Holy Rus'. Imagology experience. Khlybova T.V.

The monograph is devoted to the history of the emergence and functioning in the Russian culture of Kalik of the Crossers - pilgrims in holy places and performers of religious poetry, and their artistic projection in folklore - epics and spiritual verses. To study the author, a wide range of sources and scientific literature was involved: annals and assembly documents of different eras, legal materials and data from linguistics, works of didactic, epistolary and other genres of ancient Russian literature, folklore texts and church-channic messages, observations of historians, ethnographers, folklorests, folklorest Writers and journalists, folklore and epigraphic records.

The book is addressed to folklorists, historians, linguists, specialists in the field of mediastism, as well as everyone who is interested in Russian history and culture.