Rarenko Maria B.

The article is dedicated to Fyodor Ivanovich Bulaev (1818–1897), a professor at Moscow University, a man of extraordinary fortitude who devoted his whole life to the service of science and art.

The author of the Russian grammar textbooks and "Historical Essays on Russian Folk Literature and Art" (1861), F.I. Buslaev acted as a consistent representative of the mythological school in the Russian science. His works were of great importance for the development of comparative historical linguistics, which was repeatedly noted by the linguists in the twentieth century.

Buslaev was a man of the most diverse interests. In addition to philology, he studied ancient Russian iconography, miniatures of facial manuscripts, and ornament.

Being a well-educated man with encyclopedic knowledge in the field of humanities, F.I. Buslaev was one of the first to realize the need for an integrated approach to the study of folk culture, which he clearly demonstrated in his writings. His works combined studies of folklore, linguistics, ethnography, the science of Slavic antiquities, comparative mythology, and art history.