Grigory Alekseevich Yakushov (1862 - 1929) - Russian folk storyteller [1] .
| Grigory Alekseevich Yakushov | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 1862 |
| Place of Birth | Olonets province |
| Date of death | 1929 |
| A place of death | Pudozhsky District |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire  the USSR |
| Occupation | narrator |
Biography
Peasant d. Melentievskaya Pudozhsky district . He worked on logging.
Bylin took over from the grandfather, the peasant of the village of Gagarka, Shalsky volost Potap Trofimovich Antonov, the famous storyteller, as well as from the storytellers of the village of Burakova Nikifor Prokhorov (Utitsa) and the fellow Ivan Feponov [2] .
He had a strong voice, perfectly performed epics, playing on the rise and fall.
Yakushov’s repertoire exceeded the repertoires of other Onega-Kargopol storyteller .
Records of bylin Yakushov made including during the expedition brothers B. M. and Yu. M. Sokolov
In 1926, 7 epics were recorded from him, incl. “Dobrynya and Alyosha” and “Mikhailo Potyk” in 1928 - 37 epics (10,000 verses), including “Churila and Katerina”, “Ilya Muromets and Elena Korolevna”, “Ilya Muromets and son”, “Yeruslan Lazarevich”, “December Uprising of 1825”, “Death of Alexander II” and others.
In 1929, at the call of the People's Commissariat of Education, he, along with others, was supposed to come to Moscow to perform and record epics, but a month before the trip he caught a cold and died [3] .
Notes
- ↑ The Greatest Russian Narrator of the 20th Century // Kostin, A. G. Book of Records Pudozh / A. G. Kostin. - Pudozh: [b. and.], 2006. - 78 p. - S. 77
- ↑ Yakushov Grigory Alekseevich
- ↑ Yakushov G.A.
Literature
- Annals. Book 13: Onega epics // Selection of epics and scientific. ed. text acad. Yu.M. Sokolova. M., 1948.