TORCH-BEARERS OF FOLK-CULTURE STUDIES
The given article represents the review of work organized by two significant ethnographers and folklorists P. I. Melnikov-Pecherskiy and A. S. Gatsiskiy on the fields of collecting and studying of Russian folklore. The article also introduces Andrey Vasiliyevich Karpov, whose name is little-known in Russian philology, but whose considerable works on the field of folk-culture studies are to be evaluated due to its fruitfulness and scientific value.