Karelia. The lives of wonderful people. Fedosova I.A.
Description:
Irina Andreevna Fedosova (1831-1899).
Opening of Barsov
Elpidifor Vasilyevich Barsov is a young teacher of the Olonets Theological Seminary.
E.V. Barsov managed to discover Russian and world science:
Unknown genre of North Russian folklore
- a lamentation; - one of his performers
- Irina Andreevna Fedosova
- and record lamentations in extremely talented performance.
In 1872-1885, a three-volume collection of E.V. Barsov “Waiting of the Northern Territory” was published, consisting mainly of records from Fedosova. The collection was provided with a biography of Fedosova, told by herself.
Her childhood was a typical childhood of a serf.
peasant girl. The huge family, consisting of 22 members, had to work hard to avoid falling into poverty. From the age of twelve to thirteen, I.A. Fedosova began to “vote” at weddings and quickly gained fame throughout Zaonezh.
The great poet of the Russian peasantry, the author of “Orina, the mother of the soldier”, “Frost, Red Nose”, “Uncompressed Strip”, “In the midst of the suffering of the village” and other soulful poems about the grandmother’s share, N.A. Nekrasov warmly took the book of the folk poetess “Waiting of the Northern Territory”. He read it over and over again, extracted it from it. In 1873 N.A. Nekrasov published the chapter “Peasant” from the poem “Who in Russia to live well”. The chapter was written under a fresh impression from reading Fedosova’s collection and was built largely on the material of her laments. Crying Matryona Timofeevna for Demushka, as it is said in the note of the poet himself to these lines, "taken almost literally from the people's lamentation."
January 8 and 10, 1895 at the evening in Salt Town
The great composer Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov came and, keenly interested in the performer, recorded nine of her melodies. They were used in the operas Sadko and The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitizhe.
F.I. Chaliapin highly appreciated Fedosova’s performing skills: “I heard many stories, old songs and epics before meeting Fedosova, but only in her amazing transmission did I suddenly understand the deep charm of folk art ... Fedosova herself was wonderful as a fairy tale.”
In honor of Fedosova in 1895-1896 convened
Special meetings of the Ethnographic Department of the Russian Geographical Society, the Society of Lovers of Natural History, Anthropology and Ethnography. The Academy of Sciences awarded I.A. Fedosov with a silver medal with a diploma.