MILITARY SONGS IN FOLKLORE OF THE RUSSIAN OLD RESIDENTS OF LATVIA: HISTORICAL AND CULTUROLOGICAL ASPECT
In article the songs of military subject collected by I.D. Friedrich at the Russians living in Latvia are analyzed. The events described in lyrical texts and assessment of historic figures are considered by the performers who are quite often introducing in "local color. The author notes that in military and historical songs various derogations from chronology and geography of events, contamination and late stratifications are noticeable that is a consequence of oral existing of songs and result their their transferring from the soldier's environment to rural