Peasants’ Diary
earticlepresentsexcerptsfrompeasants’ diaries,keptbytheinhabitantsof diﬀerent villages of the Arkhangelsk region. e study of the “naïve writing” of the 20 century makes a great contribution to linguistics - these diaries revealcertainpeculiaritiesofspeech:thelexis,themorphologyandthesyntax ofthetime.eyshowtheeverydaylifetheRussianpeasant,thedailyroutine andholidays,worriesandcares,attitudetonature. Allthesephenomenahave so far received little attention in the studies of national folk culture.