Laments

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Laments

a genre of folk poetry.

Laments exist among many peoples of the world and were widespread in the folklore of pre-revolutionary Russia. They were performed primarily by women mourners, both professional and nonprofessional, and were recited at funerals and weddings, at the departure of recruits into the army, and for everyday events. The best examples of northern Russian laments were recorded from I. A. Fedosova and N. S. Bogdanova of the Trans-Onega Region. During the Soviet period, moving laments about V. I Lenin and S. M. Kirov appeared.

REFERENCES AND TEXTS

Prichitan’iaSevernogokraia, sobrannye E. V. Barsovym, parts 1–4. Moscow, 1872–85.
Prichitaniia. [Introductory article and notes by K. V. Chistov. Text prepared by B. E. Chistova.] Leningrad, 1960.
Russkaia narodno-bytovaia lirika: Prichitaniia Severa. V zapisiakh V. G. Bazanova i A. P. Razumovoi. Moscow-Leningrad, 1962.

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Katharine Goodland. Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance Drama: From the Raising of Lazarus to "King Lear

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