Evgeni Alekseevich Kostyukhin (February 23, 1938, Verkhnyaya Salda , Sverdlovsk Region - January 4, 2006, St. Petersburg) - Russian ethnographer , literary critic , folklorist . Doctor of Philology (1988).
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Biography
Educated at the Russian branch of the philological faculty of Moscow State University . Having completed several ethnographic expeditions, he becomes a folklorist. Other philological students took part in these expeditions along with Kostyukhin, which later became outstanding scientists. Among them are L. A. Astafyev, Bronislaw Kerbelite, Yu. A. Novikov, Yu. I. Smirnov. Erna Vasilyevna Pomerantseva (1899-1980) was a teacher of Moscow folklorists at that time - an expert on Russian folk tales , which determined Kostyukhin's special interest in folk tales.
After university education, he graduated from the graduate school of the Abai Kazakh Pedagogical Institute ( 1960 - 1963 ). Subsequently, he worked at the Pedagogical Institute of the city of Chimkent ( 1963 - 1966 ), the Kazakh Women's Pedagogical Institute ( 1966 - 1968 ), the Kazakh Pedagogical Institute named after Abay ( 1968 - 1977 and 1980 - 1983 ), from 1977 to 1980 he taught at the Pedagogical Institute Institute of Bydgoszcz, Poland.
The candidate dissertation, which Kostyukhin defended in 1969 , was devoted to the folklore and literary tradition of Alexander the Great . Then in 1972 he published his first book, “Alexander the Great in Literary and Folklore Tradition,” dedicated to the life and deeds of the great commander, embodied in the literature of various peoples of the East and West.
In 1983, Evgeni Alekseevich Kostyukhin moved to Leningrad . He taught at the Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute (now the A. Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University ), first held the post of assistant professor, then professor. He taught courses mainly on Russian literature of the 18th century from the theory of literature. In 1988 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Types and forms of animal epic." In June 1989, Kostyukhin became a leading researcher at the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences . In the 1990s, he prepared several books for publication, in particular in 1997, “Folk Russian Tales Not for the Press, Treasured Proverbs and Sayings Collected and Edited by A. N. Afanasyev. 1857-1862. "
The last 6 years of his life struggled with the disease, but did not stop research work. He died on January 4, 2006.
Major works
- "Alexander the Great in the literary and folklore tradition", M., 1972;
- "Types and forms of animal epic", M., 1987;
- "Lectures on Russian folklore", M., 2004.
E. A. Kostyukhin prepared the classical collections of I. M. Snegirev (“Russian folk proverbs and parables”, M., 1999) and D. M. Sadovnikov (“Tales and Traditions of the Samara Territory”, St. Petersburg, 2003), as well as an anthology of texts about animals in world traditional literature (“When animals said: Three hundred seventy-five myths, fairy tales, fables, jokes, legends and traditions about animals”, Moscow: Eastern Literature, 2004).