V. K. Magnitskiy and His Records on Reading and Blowing Rituals in the Old Believes of Chuvashes
The article deals the works of V. K. Magnitsky are considered; notes on traditions with blowing in old Chuvash beliefs are estimated. The ethnographer's contribution to the study of certain issues of pre-Christian Chuvash religion is analyzed. The researcher fixed and introduced into scientific circulation valuable factual material.