Matvey Mikhailovich Korguev (1883-1943) - storyteller , writer, storyteller [1] .
| Matvey Mikhailovich Korguev | ||
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| Date of Birth | August 15, 1883 | |
| Place of Birth | Keret village, Olonets province | |
| Date of death | July 4, 1943 (aged 59) | |
| Place of death | Keret village , Loukhsky district , Karelian-Finnish SSR | |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire  the USSR | |
| Occupation | storyteller , writer , rune-singer | |
| Genre | fairy tale | |
| Language of Works | Russian language | |
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Content
Biography
Father is a Russian Pomor , mother is a Karelian . Since childhood, spoke Russian and Karelian languages.
At the age of nine, he began working as a shepherd, cook-sailor on a sailing vessel in a fishing artel, later at a sawmill, on the construction of the Murmansk railway . From his youth he was famous for his ability to tell tales . He was hired by fishing cooperatives, paying an extra share for storytelling in the evenings.
In the 1930s, folklorist A.N. Nechaev, according to M. Korguev, recorded and published 115 tales in two volumes under the title "Tales of the Karelian White Sea". At that time, this was a record number for one storyteller. Among fairy tales magical prevail. In addition to fairy tales in Russian, Korguev performed Karelian runes and yoygs .
In 1933 he joined the fishing collective farm.
In 1938, Matvey Korguev was admitted to the Union of Writers of the USSR , in 1939 he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor .
He was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Karelian-Finnish SSR I convocation.
The last years of his life he worked as a foreman on a fishing collective farm.
He was buried in the cemetery of the village of Keret .
Rewards
- Order of the Badge of Honor (01/31/1939)
Memory
In the village of Chupa, Loukhsky district of the Republic of Karelia , the memorial museum of local lore of Matvey Korguev was opened [2] .
Artwork
- White Sea tales told by M. M. Korguev / Edited by A. N. Nechaev. Soviet writer, 1938 .-- 255 p.
- scan of a 1938 book: http://imwerden.de/cat/modules.php?name=books&pa=showbook&pid=885
- “Number”: http://www.rodon.org/other/bs8.htm (only the preface and the tales themselves, that is, the “Notes” section is missing)
- Tales of the Karelian seaside / Under the general editorship of M.K. Azadovsky. Petrozavodsk, T. 1: Tales of M. M. Korguev. Prince 1. - 660 s .; - Prince 2. - 676 s.
- Tales of M. M. Korguev. - Belomorsk, 1944 .-- 111 s.
- Silver ship: Tales of Matvey Korguev / Lit. retelling of V. Pulkin. - Petrozavodsk, 1988 .-- 112 p. - (Narrators and rune singers).
Notes
- ↑ Writers of Karelia: Bibliographic Dictionary / Karel. scientific RAS Center; [comp. Yu. I. Dyuzhev]. - Petrozavodsk: Islands, 2006. - 267 pp. ISBN 5-98686-006-3
- ↑ Korguev Museum on the official website of the Chupinsky urban settlement (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment March 2, 2013. Archived December 14, 2009.
Literature
- Inge Yu. “In a certain kingdom”, wf “Leningrad”, 1940, No. 1, p.13
- Chistov K.V. Russian storytellers of Karelia. Petrozavodsk, 1980
- Pulkin V. Good faith. Petrozavodsk, 1984
- People's Deputies of Karelia: Deputies of the highest representative bodies of power of the USSR, the RSFSR, the Russian Federation from Karelia and the highest representative bodies of power of Karelia, 1923-2006: reference book / ed. A.I. Butvilo. - Petrozavodsk, 2006 .-- 320 p.
- Karelia: encyclopedia: in 3 tons / hl. ed. A.F. Titov. T. 2: K - P. - Petrozavodsk: Publishing House PetroPress, 2009. P. 94 - 464 pp., Ill., Maps. ISBN 978-5-8430-0125-4 (t. 2)