St. Petersburg: Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie Publ., 2010, 227 p. (in Russian) In her fundamental work on the problems of folklore studies and literary criticism, I. V. Kulganek analyzed the repertoire of small genres of Mongolian poetic folklore for the first time in Russian and world Mongolistics from the perspective of modern achievements of European and Russian poetics. The importance of understanding Mongolian poetic folklore is dictated not only by the relevance of the topic, but also by its significance in modern processes of ethnic identification. I. V. Kulganek thoroughly studied the source base of the subject under study. The chapter "Development of theoretical views on Mongolian poetic folklore" analyzes the works of Western European, Russian and Mongolian scientists, systematizes scattered results and data on research on small genres, epics and ritual folklore. I would like to note the importance of translations and comments on the scientific works of foreign scientists, which are necessary for future research on Mongolistics. The author, considering the historiography of the study of small forms of folklore of the Mongolian peoples, simultaneously presented the theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of Mongolian poetic folklore developed in the course of the study. In the chapter "Stages of studying Mongolian poetic folklore by Mongolian scholars", I. V. Kulganek naturally draws on information about the poetic work of the Mongols found in early Chinese and Persian works. With such a broad approach to the research material, the author's conclusion is legitimate: "The problem of studying the actual poetic creativity by Mongolian scientists is inextricably linked with the history of philological science in medieval Mongolia. The origins of this problem go back to the time of the formation of a Single Mongolian state, when it became necessary to create a written language" (p. 67). The paper examines in detail the scientific treatise of an Ind ... Читать далее