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The study of the origin of the people is completely impossible without studying its customs, myths and songs.

History “Legends about Slovenia and Ruse”. “The Legend of Slovenia and Ruse and the City of Slovensk”, also known as the story “About the history of the hedgehog about the beginning of Rusky lands and the creation of Novagrad”, exists in more than 100 copies of the 17th and 18th centuries; the oldest dates back to 1630. Most of them belong to the second half of the 17th century, including the lists in the Chronicle of Patriarch Nikon, the Chronograph of 1679, and the Novgorod III Chronicle. Modern editions are usually based on a list from the Chronograph of 1679. Historians suggest that the Legend… was compiled by the founder of the Siberian chronicle, Metropolitan Cyprian (1626—1634)

Mikhail Zabylin, a prominent connoisseur of Russian antiquity and a collector of Slavic antiquities. Descriptions of rituals and beliefs, fairy tales, epics, conspiracies and fortune-telling conceal in themselves an inexplicable charm, accessible to the heart of everyone in whom love for the Fatherland and the beliefs of our ancestors is alive. The first edition of the book “Russian people. Customs, legends, rituals collected by M. Zapiny “was published in 1880 by the publishing house of the bookseller M. Berezin. Zabylin’s contribution is infinitely huge for the study of the mythology of the Russian people.