About the book: 2003 / The most extensive three-volume collection in world epic studies by A. D. Grigoriev, “Arkhangelsk epics and historical songs,” was published intermittently in 1904-1939. in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Prague. For the first time, unique books being reprinted reveal to new generations of readers our great poetic and musical cultural heritage, preserved at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. in the mouths of the people in the protected areas of the Russian North. In Volume II, a portrait of the collector was published for the first time.