About the book: 1989 / Boris Viktorovich Shergin (1893-1973) is one of the oldest Soviet folklorists, a master of the living Russian word. A native of Arkhangelsk, the son of a hereditary shipbuilder, Boris Shergin devoted his entire life to the study of oral folk art of the White Sea region. On the basis of this, his talented, original works were born, telling about the stern, courageous people of the North - the Pomors, about their original culture, bright figurative language...