Ideas and Approaches of N.I. Tolstoy in the Context of Modern Studies of Folk Bible

Abstract

Works of N.I. Tolstoy on Slavic culture, medieval literature and folklore formed Russian ethnolinguistics as well as a common interdisciplinary field for modern research of the “third culture” – an urban, democratic culture that inherits traditional forms of life and worldview and at the same time using all the advantages of writing (and nowadays – digital literacy). The article on the material of the Old Believer verses and handwritten soldier’s notebooks of the second half of the 20th century discusses the question of the relevance of the ideas and approaches of N.I. Tolstoy to analyze of these late remakes of the “archaic ritual-dialogue”.