Andreev Nikolay (1892–1942) – specialist in folklore and literature. In 1918, he graduated from the Historical and Philological Faculty of the Kazan’ University. At the same period, he taught at the Kazan’ Teachers-Training Institute, and at the Moslem Teachers-Training Courses. From 1922 till the end of his life, he worked at the Leningrad Herzen Teachers-Training Institute, at the Chair of Russian Literature (Philological Faculty). A. was a member of the Folklore Commission of the Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R.; since late 1920-s, he has participated in the work of the Folktales Commission of the Ethnographic Department of the Russian Geographical Society; and since 1930-s, he has got a position of the Head of the Folklore Group at the State Institute of Speaking Culture. A. put a special attention to studying of fairy-tales and legends, offered to build a general catalogue of fairy-tales plots. He insisted at the creating summarizing research on the general folklore history.
(1892–1942)
Andreev Nikolay
Compositions
- Die Legende von den zwei Erzsündem // F.F. Communications. 1924, No 54.
- Index of the Folktales Plots According the Aarne System. Leningrad, 1929. (in Rus.)
- Die Legende von Räuber Madej // F.F. Communications. 1929, No 69.
- A Problem in the Folklore History // Sovetskaya etnographiya. Moscow, 1934, Iss. 3, pp. 28-45. (in Rus.)
- By the Characteristics of the Ukrainian Folktales Material // For Sergey Fedorovich Oldenburg. By the 50th Anniversary of His Research and Social Activity. 1882-1932. Moscow-Leningrad, 1934, pp. 61 – 72. (in Rus.)
- Russian Folktales by А. N. Afanasiev / Edit. By M. K. Azadovsky, N. P. Andreev, Yu. M. Sokolov. Moscow-Leningrad, 1936, vol. 1; 1938, vol. 2; 1940, vol. 3. (in Rus.)
- ‘The Tale of Igor’s Canpaign’ and the Folk Creativity // Narodnoe tavorchestvo. 1938, Iss. 5, pp. 5 – 10. (in Rus.)
- Russian Folklore. Readings for High Teachers-Training Schools. Moscow-Leningrad, 1936, 1940. (in Rus.)
About him
- Astakhova А. М. Essays on the History of Russian Ethnography, Folklore Studies, and Anthropology. // Iss. V. Proceedings of the Institute of Ethnography named after N. N. Miklukho-Maklay. New Seria. Vol. 95. Moscow, Nauka Publishing House, 1971, pp. 181 – 200. (in Rus.)
- Zaborova R. B. Andreev Nikolay Petrovich. Description of the Collection 20. St. Petersburg, 1996, pp. 1 – 3. (in Rus.)
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