Russian epics in the national pedagogy of the 19th century: the role of the F. Buslaev's medieval Russian literature readers

The article analyzes the meaning of F. Buslaev's medieval Russian literature readers (1861, 1870) for the reception of the Russian epic epics. Fragments epic in these tutorials played a service role - in the first textbook on the epic studied the history of the language, in the second they were a source of information about literary monuments. In reading books, besides, the interpretation of the epic that was not quite correct was offered, which did not give an idea of the value concepts of the epic world. However, the textbooks of F. Buslaev nevertheless contributed to the restoration of the previously distorted image of the epic world.