SONGS OF POSHEKHONYE

In 2000, 2001 the author undertook trips to Poshekhonye in Yaroslavl region and its environs. The trips were crowned with numerous field recordings of the most interesting ethnographic material that exists among the local population. There were recorded: recipes of traditional medicine, calendar and family and household rituals, children's folklore... Among the numerous genres of folk art, songs are well preserved: quadrille, lyric, historical, prison, recruit, ballad-type songs, ditties, etc... In this report, the author offers for publication some samples of song folklore recorded in the city of Poshekhonye in 2001 from Ekaterina Ivanovna Gavrilova, born in 1932, a native of Poshekhonye.