Калмыцкие пословицы и поговорки в записи И. И. Попова

Abstract

The article gives the description of the manuscript notebook “Proverbs and Sayings of the Don Kalmyks” from the collection of the collector of Kalmyk folklore Ivan Ivanovich Popov, that is kept at the State Archive of Rostov region. I. I. Popov recorded different genres of Kalmyk folklore — fairy tales, riddles, proverbs, ‘true stories’, one song from the heroic Kalmyk epos “Jangar” and some fairy tales. The folklore samples, recorded in 1890–1894, after 125 years have not been described and fully introduced into the science. Proverbs and sayings of Don Kalmyks are one of these underinvestigated genres of the Kalmyk folklore tradition recorded by I. I. Popov. The study gives preliminary description of the samples of this genre. It has been found out that the manuscript is incomplete, some pages are missing. The specific features of recording oral texts by I. I.Popov are: the folklore samples are recorded in the Old-Kalmyk script “clear script” and in Cyrillic alphabet (with the use of additional symbols), the author gives parallel Russian translation and also extensive comments, rating and the records of variations.