Istomin, Fedor Mikhailovich

Fedor Mikhailovich Istomin ( May 31, 1856 , Arkhangelsk - 1919) - Russian ethnographer .

He graduated from the historical and philological faculty of St. Petersburg University . Since 1883, secretary of the ethnographic department of the Geographical Society . He participated in ethnographic expeditions to the Arkhangelsk and Olonets provinces ( 1884 , together with G. O. Dyutsh ), to the Pechora region ( 1889 and 1890 ), in 1886 and 1893 - to an expedition sent to the Emperor to collect folk songs in the northern provinces.

Typed:

• “Tonic theory in Slavic folk art” (“Collection of articles by students of V. Lamansky”, 1883 );
• "A trip to the Pechora region" ("Proceedings of the Geographical Society", 1890 );
• "Ethnographic study of the Pechora region" ("Proceedings of the VIII Congress of Naturalists", sect. VIII, St. Petersburg, 1890 );
• “On the religious condition of the Pechora region” (“Church Gazette”, 1890 - 1891 );
• “The lamentations and lamentations of the Olonets and Arkhangelsk provinces” (“ Living Antiquity ”, 1892 );
• “Songs of the Russian people collected in the provinces of Arkhangelsk and Olonetsk” (recorded: words - F. Istomin, tunes - G. Dyutsh , St. Petersburg, 1894 ).