This is a new volume of the unnumbered collection of selected works by Aleksandr Veselovskii (1838-1906), a Russian historian of literature and a professor of St. Petersburg University, one of the first who started to study mythological and folklore plots, which later were called archetypal. The current volume includes his works on the Slavic epic and ritual traditions. Name index. (0.745 kg.). Also available by the same author: ); Tsar" Ivan Groznyi v Rabotakh Pisatelei i Istorikov (1999); Istoricheskaia Poetika (2004); Iz Istorii Moskovskogo Gosudarstva v XVII Veke (2005); Izbrannoe: Istoricheskaia Poetika (2006); Izbrannoe: Na Puti K Istoricheskoi Poetike (2009).639 p