Letters of Russian peasants. Texts and contexts. In 2 volumes: Olga Yokoyama

The book is a collection of letters of peasants living in the Sarapul district at the end of the XIX century. And comments on them. From the letters whose originals are stored in the Tyumen State Archive, the reader learns about how they said and wrote what they thought and lived in the peasant family of the Zhernakovs – father, mother, two sons and a daughter. This unique collection is the only primary source that has survived to this day, containing wonderful samples of peasant letters of the pre -revolutionary era.
Linguists and philologists will be interested in the texts themselves and linguistic comments on them, as well as Ch. 3, which proposes the reconstruction of the dialect of the authors of letters. The content of letters and notes on the realities of the XIX century. It will be interesting to historians, sociologists and researchers of the life of peasants. Facsimile letters, illustrations and family trifles are attached to the texts.

Author
Yokoyama Olga Borisovna
Translator
Ter-Avanesova A.V., Osipova M.A., Ushakova S. N. N. N.
Publisher
Languages ​​of Slavic cultures, 2014