The idea and image of the Motherland in the novinas by M.S. Kryukova

Novines of storyteller and folk poetess Marfa Semyonovna Kryukova (1876–1954) are considered by the author of the article in the context of classical poetics of Russian heroic epic, many images and motifs of which (in particular, the image of native land) go back to universal archetypes of traditional mythological consciousness. The main reasons for the preservation of epic traditions in the Russian North are outlined.