SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION OF YRIE AND JULIA WICHMANN TO THE MARI REGION (1905-1906)
This article is devoted to the study of the complex expedition to collect linguistic, folklore and ethnographic material among the Mari of Kazan and Vyatka gubernias, the perfect Yrie and Julia Wichmann in 1905-1906. The Authors of the article attempts to analyse the perception of socio-cultural aspects of spiritual and material life of Mari based on the use of sources such as letters and diary entries of travelers by foreign scientists. These sources allow us to identify regional features of socio-political situation in the Mari region during the first Russian revolution. In the article the conclusion is made about the significant contribution of Finnish and Hungarian scholars in the study of traditional Ethnography of the Mari people, the Mari collection of dialect and folklore material, the promotion of Finno-Ugric kinship and cooperation.