Obonezhye folk calendar in the Olonetskiye gubernskiye vedomosti newspaper and the expedition records

The article considers data on the traditional festive and working calendar of the Russians in the Olonets province. The materials studied cover articles by local correspondents published in the unofficial part of the Olonetskiye Gubernskiye Vedomosti (OGV) newspaper (1838-1917) and the expedition records of the XX and the early XXI centuries including those in the scientific archives of the Kizhi Open-Air Museum and the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. As a result of the comparison of the earlier and later materials, the author concludes that field records sometimes contain the information on calendar rites and rituals that are not found in the articles of the OGV newspaper or that are not covered in them fully enough. The reason for that, the author suggests, might be local correspondents' insufficient skills in ethnographic observation in some cases. Thus, the OGV cannot be relied on as the only source for studying the peasant calendar. For the full picture, it is necessary to draw other materials, including later field collections.