Russian nationality in its beliefs, rites and fairy tales. Shepping D.O.

The attention of readers is proposed to the book of a Russian historian, archaeologist, ethnographer D.O. Shepping, dedicated to the study of beliefs, rites and fairy tales of the Russian people. The work considers the Slavic pagan mythology and oral folk art, their attitude to popular life, investigates the cosmogonic significance of Russian fairy tales and epics. The outline of the initial history of agriculture is presented in relation to it to the life and language of the Russian people. The book introduces the reader to the folk life of our ancestors, allows you to look deeper “in the history of the non-specific princes of the Varangian, but the Russian common people and their moral and religious views on the world and life in general.”

The book will be interesting to historians Slavists, ethnologists, culturalists, as well as the widest circle of readers.