Abstract
The scientific heritage of an outstanding Russian philologist, linguist, ethnologist, historian of culture, Slavist, founder of the comparative study of North Caucasian languages, full member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences, and the honorary member of the Finno-Ugric society in Finland, Nikolai S. Trubetskoy (1890–1938), who emigrated in 1919, has been on its way to his motherland since 1960. Unfortunately, his works on the folklore of the peoples of the North Caucasus that saw the light either in the short-lived pre-revolutionary Russian scientific journals or in various European journals that published scholarly essays of the representatives of the first wave of Russian emigrants have not been hitherto acknowledged in contemporary folklore studies. For this reason, we republish the N.S. Trubetskoy’s article “Folklore communication between Eastern Slavs and the peoples of the North Caucasus,” first issued in The Notes of the Russian Scientific Institute in Belgrade” (1941). In Russia, this article is hitherto obscure.
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