This monograph studies the history of the Baltic Slav by the outstanding Russian thinker, Slavophile, historian and collector of the Russian epics Alexander Fedorovich Hilferding (1831-1872). This book is a reprint of the forth volume of his collected works (1874) supplemented with a biographical eassya about the author by K.N. bestuzhev-Riumin, an introduction and comments by V.V. Fomin, S.V. Tsvetkov, I.A. Nastenko. Indices. (1 kg)