12 articles in this issue
V. V. Kalugin
This is a biography written by Prince A. M. Kurbskij about his spiritual father, Feodorit Kol'skij. It is the only work dedicated to Feodorit in the Old Russian literature. The vita offers extraordinary information about Feodorit's missionary work amongst... see more
L. A. Savelova
This article presents two dialects found in the Archangel'sk oblast', namely the dialect of the Verkhnetoemsky region and that of the Primorsky region. The "maternal base", i.e. the geographical origin, of these dialects is dis- cussed. The most important... see more
Margje Post
The present article deals with the dialect of Kojda, a village situated on the White Sea coast in the Mezen' rajon of the Archangel'sk oblast'. The dialects of the Archangel'sk oblast' are poorly described, because most of the area is not included in the ... see more
A. A. Zajnuldinov
This article aims at a description of the pragmatic semantics of voca- bulary items (within the contemporary theory of pragmatics based on the works of A. Wierzbicka, L. A. Vygotsky, L. A. Kiseleva, V. N. Telija, etc). We argue the great importance of inc... see more
Ingvild Broch
The first linguistic description of RN was published by Olaf Broch in German in 1927 in Archiv für slavishe Philologie and in the same year also in Norwegian, at the request of the editor of the Norwegian philological journal Maal og Minne. In 1930 he pub... see more
Tamara Lönngren
This article deals with the problem of the use of dialect in literary prose. The work chosen for analysis is F. Abramov's novel «Dom» (‘The house'). F. Abramov (1920-1983) was born and grew up near the river Pinega in the Archangel'sk oblast'. Up to the a... see more
Marit Bjerkeng
This article is a presentation of a few texts written by the author Boris Viktorovic? S?ergin (1896-1973), who was born in Arkhangelsk and wrote, among other things, a number of stories based on the oral tradition he knew from his childhood. This article ... see more
Erik Egeberg
In this paper the author briefly analyzes some poems by the North Russian poet Nikolaj Michajlovic? Rubcov (1936-71), in which he is portraying or hinting at earlier Russian masters of poetry - Esenin, Pus?kin, Lermontov etc. It is pointed out that Rubcov... see more
S. A. Xorkina
Compared to other European nations, Norwegians and Russians had an attachment to the Arctic from early on in their history. They were the pioneers in polar seafaring, and the exploration and settlement of the northern regions. For both nations, northernne... see more
I. A. Garcev
The Russian Orthodox magazines - Pravoslavny Blagovestnik, Missio- nerskoe obozrenie, Amerikansky pravoslavny vestnik, and others - are important and interesting sources. These periodicals describe missionary activity in the late 19th and early 20th centu... see more
Jan Brodal
This article explores parallels betwen the writing of Fedor Abramov and American popular literature.