Olga Belova
Biographic Data
| ID | 1221114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olga Belova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olga |
| FAMILY NAME | Belova |
| SIGNATURE | BELOVA O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Slavic Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5221-9424 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Обновление икон в Рославльском уезде в 1923 г. в документах государственных и партийных органов
Статья посвящена анализу документов, в которых нашли отражение события, произошедшие в 1923 г. в Рославльском уезде Смоленской губернии. В нескольких деревнях произошли «чудеса» обновления икон, вызвавшие волну слухов и подъем религиозности населения. События привлекли внимание государственных и партийных коммунистических структур, которые были вынуждены принять меры по борьбе с всплеском религиозных настроений. В секретных отчетах и информационн…
“Frenchmen in Cannabis”
В статье рассматриваются варианты русских и белорусских исторических преданий о борьбе с воинственными противниками (литовцы, шведы, татары, турки, французы). Среди локальных вариантов данного сюжета, зафиксированных в Смоленской области, встречается неординарное упоминание о том, что завоеватели боялись конопли, и это обеспечивало местным жителям возможность укрытия и спасения в зарослях этого растения. Анализ данного фольклорного мотива в этнол…
Toponyms in the Context of the Winter Farewell Rite on the Belarusian-Ukrainian
The article offers an analysis of the toponyms found in rhymed sentences accompanying the local rite of celebrating a farewell to winter and welcoming spring in Western Polesie (Brest, Volyn, Rivne regions). The ceremony is timed to the first Sunday or Monday after Easter and is a typical example of ritual expulsion (in this case, of the calendar season). The range of toponyms, as well as the vector nature of the expulsion of winter from its “own…
Folklore “Historical” Narrative Within the Context of Landscape Mythology (Russian-Belarusian Borderlands)
The article presents a narrative and structural analysis of texts from the collection of the State Archive of the Smolensk region reflecting folk beliefs about cult trees. These records can be regarded as “historical” narratives in which trees, being objects of folk veneration (ritual practices aimed at healing) and superstition (“treasure under a tree” legend), are at the same time associated with historical or quasi-historical events (adventure…
“Extra” Body Parts in Slavic Legends and Beliefs
The publication considers the plots and motives of Slavic legends, as well as beliefs about different parts of the human body. Particular attention is paid to those parts of the body that were added or, conversely, rejected in the process of human creation. In Slavic cosmogonic and etiological legends, there is a clear idea that the human body should correspond to the ideal conceived by the demiurge, that is why the cornea or body hair, tail are …
Professionals and Marginals in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions
The issue “Professionals and Marginals in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions” of the annual “Slavic and Jewish Cultures: Dialogue, Similarities, Differences” includes materials of the international conference, held in Moscow on December 1-3, 2021. The book includes 12 articles by Russian and Israeli researchers who have devoted their research to the social and cultural role of professionals and marginals in various ethno-confessional tradition…
Kalinovsky Cross. A Resonant Miracle of 1923 in the Context of the Folklore Narratives
The publication considers the main motifs of evidences about the so-called Kalinovka miracle that took place in the summer of 1923 in Ukraine (Podolia province). Analyzing folk stories about the “Kalinovka miracle” that are contemporary to the event, one can show how the evidences of miracles that occurred around the Kalinovsky cross correlate with the traditional plot schemes of folk legends about sacred objects and with ritual practices that ar…
Anthroponymy and Toponymy in Memorial Epigraphy of Podlasie
The paper presents an analysis of personal and place names on the tombstones of necropolises surveyed during a three-year fieldwork in Podlasie province (Hajnówka region), the area of high concentration of Orthodox East Slavic population. Apart from reflecting local dialect features specific to the East Slavic language situation on the Polish-East Slavic borderland, these epigraphic inscriptions made in Cyrillic are also a confessional marker tha…
Ushestie and Avdotki in the Context of the Smolensk Urban Narrative and Traditional Rite
С середины XIX в. в краеведческой и этнографической литературе, посвященной Смоленску, спорадически встречается упоминание о паломничестве, ежегодно совершавшемся белорусскими крестьянками из окрестных уездов на праздник Вознесения Господня в Спасо-Вознесенский женский монастырь. Название праздника Вознесения (Ушесцье, Ушестье) упоминается во всех известных нам публикациях описания паломничества в Смоленск. В ряде источников оно приобретает форму…
La valorisation du patrimoine matériel et immatériel traditionnel dans la Russie contemporaine
Le présent article s’interroge sur la place qu’occupe la promotion du patrimoine culturel matériel et immatériel dans la politique culturelle de l’État russe. L’analyse des différentes mesures gouvernementales destinées à la valorisation de ce patrimoine montre comment elles répondent à un double objectif : d’un côté, la promotion des valeurs culturelles définies comme traditionnelles en accord avec la nouvelle identité nationale et, de l’autre, …
Veneration of “alien” gods
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Zhivaia Starina in 2015
2015 was declared the Year of Literature in Russia, so that the periodical focused on the interrelation of the literary and oral traditions, the importance of written sources in the formation and existence of oral texts, the language of popular culture, and the role of the performer and the bearer of the tradition in its transmission and preservation (issues 3, 4).In keeping with the celebration of the 70 th anniversary of victory in World War II…
“The Birds of Clay”
The article describes the adaptation of the apocryphal Gospels motif—the revival of clay birds by Jesus—in the folk traditions of Eastern and Western Slavs. The texts of folk legends demonstrate not only the active inclusion of apocryphal motifs in oral narratives, but they also incorporate the motifs’ biblical contexts and they emphasize themes that are close to everyday life and that reflect local history. The folklore texts analyzed here are f…
The Body in Time
«Kurica ne ptica …» Demonologičeskaja ornitologija v krosskul'turnom prostranstve Demonološka ornitologija v medkulturnem prostoru
The article is devoted to the comparative analyses of mythological motifs spread in the folk Slavic and Jewish traditions and connected with the beliefs about the bird-like demons.The authors examine the legends and superstitions from the regions of close ethniccultural contacts, such as Western Ukraine, Western Belarus, and Poland, where the Slavic tradition had long-lasting interconnection with non-Slavic cultures. The aim of the investigation …
The Stereotype of the “Other” Within Folk Culture
The purpose of the following study is to introduce ethno‐cultural stereotypes (particularly, “portraits” of ethnic and denominational neighbours) as an instance of the embodiment within linguistic
The Event of Seeing
As critical discussions of ocularcentrism have revealed, many of the modernist accounts of reality have been based on Descartes’ idea of a disembodied and rational eye as an instrument of order and control. This paper moves on from the critique of ocularcentrism and lays foundations for an expanded conception of vision based on Merleau‐Ponty’s phenomenology. I argue that the practice of looking can be conceptualised as a deeply embodied and pre‐r…
Speaking for Themselves? Problematising the Production of Meaning in Visual Artefacts
The Event of Seeing
As critical discussions of ocularcentrism have revealed, many of the modernist accounts of reality have been based on Descartes’ idea of a disembodied and rational eye as an instrument of order and control. This paper moves on from the critique of ocularcentrism and lays foundations for an expanded conception of vision based on Merleau‐Ponty’s phenomenology. I argue that the practice of looking can be conceptualised as a deeply embodied and pre‐r…
The Body in Time
Speaking for Themselves? Problematising the Production of Meaning in Visual Artefacts
The Event of Seeing
As critical discussions of ocularcentrism have revealed, many of the modernist accounts of reality have been based on Descartes’ idea of a disembodied and rational eye as an instrument of order and control. This paper moves on from the critique of ocularcentrism and lays foundations for an expanded conception of vision based on Merleau‐Ponty’s phenomenology. I argue that the practice of looking can be conceptualised as a deeply embodied and pre‐r…
Speaking for Themselves? Problematising the Production of Meaning in Visual Artefacts
«Kurica ne ptica …» Demonologičeskaja ornitologija v krosskul'turnom prostranstve Demonološka ornitologija v medkulturnem prostoru
The article is devoted to the comparative analyses of mythological motifs spread in the folk Slavic and Jewish traditions and connected with the beliefs about the bird-like demons.The authors examine the legends and superstitions from the regions of close ethniccultural contacts, such as Western Ukraine, Western Belarus, and Poland, where the Slavic tradition had long-lasting interconnection with non-Slavic cultures. The aim of the investigation …
The Stereotype of the “Other” Within Folk Culture
The purpose of the following study is to introduce ethno‐cultural stereotypes (particularly, “portraits” of ethnic and denominational neighbours) as an instance of the embodiment within linguistic
The Body in Time
“The Birds of Clay”
The article describes the adaptation of the apocryphal Gospels motif—the revival of clay birds by Jesus—in the folk traditions of Eastern and Western Slavs. The texts of folk legends demonstrate not only the active inclusion of apocryphal motifs in oral narratives, but they also incorporate the motifs’ biblical contexts and they emphasize themes that are close to everyday life and that reflect local history. The folklore texts analyzed here are f…
Zhivaia Starina in 2015
2015 was declared the Year of Literature in Russia, so that the periodical focused on the interrelation of the literary and oral traditions, the importance of written sources in the formation and existence of oral texts, the language of popular culture, and the role of the performer and the bearer of the tradition in its transmission and preservation (issues 3, 4).In keeping with the celebration of the 70 th anniversary of victory in World War II…
Ushestie and Avdotki in the Context of the Smolensk Urban Narrative and Traditional Rite
С середины XIX в. в краеведческой и этнографической литературе, посвященной Смоленску, спорадически встречается упоминание о паломничестве, ежегодно совершавшемся белорусскими крестьянками из окрестных уездов на праздник Вознесения Господня в Спасо-Вознесенский женский монастырь. Название праздника Вознесения (Ушесцье, Ушестье) упоминается во всех известных нам публикациях описания паломничества в Смоленск. В ряде источников оно приобретает форму…
La valorisation du patrimoine matériel et immatériel traditionnel dans la Russie contemporaine
Le présent article s’interroge sur la place qu’occupe la promotion du patrimoine culturel matériel et immatériel dans la politique culturelle de l’État russe. L’analyse des différentes mesures gouvernementales destinées à la valorisation de ce patrimoine montre comment elles répondent à un double objectif : d’un côté, la promotion des valeurs culturelles définies comme traditionnelles en accord avec la nouvelle identité nationale et, de l’autre, …
Veneration of “alien” gods
()
Kalinovsky Cross. A Resonant Miracle of 1923 in the Context of the Folklore Narratives
The publication considers the main motifs of evidences about the so-called Kalinovka miracle that took place in the summer of 1923 in Ukraine (Podolia province). Analyzing folk stories about the “Kalinovka miracle” that are contemporary to the event, one can show how the evidences of miracles that occurred around the Kalinovsky cross correlate with the traditional plot schemes of folk legends about sacred objects and with ritual practices that ar…
Anthroponymy and Toponymy in Memorial Epigraphy of Podlasie
The paper presents an analysis of personal and place names on the tombstones of necropolises surveyed during a three-year fieldwork in Podlasie province (Hajnówka region), the area of high concentration of Orthodox East Slavic population. Apart from reflecting local dialect features specific to the East Slavic language situation on the Polish-East Slavic borderland, these epigraphic inscriptions made in Cyrillic are also a confessional marker tha…
“Extra” Body Parts in Slavic Legends and Beliefs
The publication considers the plots and motives of Slavic legends, as well as beliefs about different parts of the human body. Particular attention is paid to those parts of the body that were added or, conversely, rejected in the process of human creation. In Slavic cosmogonic and etiological legends, there is a clear idea that the human body should correspond to the ideal conceived by the demiurge, that is why the cornea or body hair, tail are …
Professionals and Marginals in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions
The issue “Professionals and Marginals in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions” of the annual “Slavic and Jewish Cultures: Dialogue, Similarities, Differences” includes materials of the international conference, held in Moscow on December 1-3, 2021. The book includes 12 articles by Russian and Israeli researchers who have devoted their research to the social and cultural role of professionals and marginals in various ethno-confessional tradition…
Toponyms in the Context of the Winter Farewell Rite on the Belarusian-Ukrainian
The article offers an analysis of the toponyms found in rhymed sentences accompanying the local rite of celebrating a farewell to winter and welcoming spring in Western Polesie (Brest, Volyn, Rivne regions). The ceremony is timed to the first Sunday or Monday after Easter and is a typical example of ritual expulsion (in this case, of the calendar season). The range of toponyms, as well as the vector nature of the expulsion of winter from its “own…
Folklore “Historical” Narrative Within the Context of Landscape Mythology (Russian-Belarusian Borderlands)
The article presents a narrative and structural analysis of texts from the collection of the State Archive of the Smolensk region reflecting folk beliefs about cult trees. These records can be regarded as “historical” narratives in which trees, being objects of folk veneration (ritual practices aimed at healing) and superstition (“treasure under a tree” legend), are at the same time associated with historical or quasi-historical events (adventure…
“Frenchmen in Cannabis”
В статье рассматриваются варианты русских и белорусских исторических преданий о борьбе с воинственными противниками (литовцы, шведы, татары, турки, французы). Среди локальных вариантов данного сюжета, зафиксированных в Смоленской области, встречается неординарное упоминание о том, что завоеватели боялись конопли, и это обеспечивало местным жителям возможность укрытия и спасения в зарослях этого растения. Анализ данного фольклорного мотива в этнол…
Обновление икон в Рославльском уезде в 1923 г. в документах государственных и партийных органов
Статья посвящена анализу документов, в которых нашли отражение события, произошедшие в 1923 г. в Рославльском уезде Смоленской губернии. В нескольких деревнях произошли «чудеса» обновления икон, вызвавшие волну слухов и подъем религиозности населения. События привлекли внимание государственных и партийных коммунистических структур, которые были вынуждены принять меры по борьбе с всплеском религиозных настроений. В секретных отчетах и информационн…
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