About the book: year / The work is a program of unrealized research into the artistic features of Russian folklore. This student work by Dobrolyubov is remarkable in many respects. First of all, it is distinguished by the scale of the plan - both in the sense of the breadth of material coverage (ancient and modern folklore, all types of it), and in the sense of the versatility of its development: each point of Dobrolyubov’s program is the study of various forms of imagery, the animation of nature, categories of space and time in folk poetry - essentially outlines a special direction in the study of Russian folklore.