Kalevala. Finnish Folk Bylina 1905. Translation in verse L.P. Belskogo by a member of the Finnish Literary Society. Selected places for youth from the full translation awarded by the Imperial Academy of Sciences of the Pushkin Prize. With drawings by N.I. Zhivago. Moscow Stupin's Edition 1905. The collection state. Preface: Just as the Iliad and the Odyssey represent the collections of folk epics of ancient Greece, so the name Kalevala is a collection of epics of the Finnish people, made in the second quarter of the 19th century by the Finnish scientist Lenrot, who, collecting them, bypassed most of Finland and some parts of the northern Russian provinces. The Finnish werens are sunk by folk singers, usually two singers sit across from each other, hold hands and sing one verse at a time. These were signs of ancient times and paganism. They often mention the deities of ancient Finns, for example: Ukko - the god of the sky, as well as thunderstorms, hail, rain, snow and other celestial phenomena; Hiisi - or Lempo - the god of evil; Tuoni or Mana - the deity of death and the kingdom of the dead; Tuonels or Manalas; Ahto and Vellamo are water deities, and others. The main character of Kalevala, i.e. the country of Kaleva, the father of the heroes, is the old Weinemeinen. He is the son of the divine mother of waters, who came down from heaven and took part in the creation of the world. He has the highest wisdom, a powerful spell caster and singer, he gave plants to the earth and the first to cultivate it, he invented gusli - he does everything for the good of his homeland. In many ways helps him his brother "eternal forge" Ilmarinen - the blacksmith who forged the sky and the wonderful mill samomok - Sampo. The exploits of these two brothers are attended by a cheerful fellow Lemminkeinen, who still bears the name Ahti. These three heroes are fighting against the inhabitants of the cold and gloomy country of Pohyola, which is ruled by the evil old woman Louha, causing all kinds of disasters to the inhabitants of Kalevala, the homeland of the three above-mentioned heroes. Louhi, sends a bear to Kalevala, illness, kidnaps Sampo, the sun and the moon. In addition to these persons, others are depicted in the epics, such as Kullervo, an unhappy, but spoiled by education young man who got into shepherds to Ilmarinen and viciously took revenge on his wife. A young shepherdess Mariatta, who lost her extraordinary son to whom Weinemeinen unfairly treated after which he left his homeland forever. Lernon, having collected the songs sung by various singers, placed them in a connection, and also inserted spell and wedding songs into his collection. At the beginning and at the end of his meeting, he placed the opening and closing songs. His entire collection contains 22,793 verses, which were fully translated by me and published in 1888. This translation was dedicated to my mentor, professor and academician Fyodor Ivanovich Buslaev, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his scientific activity, and was awarded the Pushkin Prize from the Academy of Sciences. My translation was Kalevala's first full verse translation in Russian. Kalevala, now published with drawings, represents such a sample from my complete verse translation that conveys all the essential content of the Lonrot collection. The drawings to this publication are made by Ms. N. I. Zivago, based on a study of Finnish ornament and Finnish antiquities, and almost all are original. We have not been able to use existing illustrations, except for a few exceptions, because satisfactory illustrations close to the fabulous spirit were not even found in the Finns themselves. Their pictures of Caleb are not fantasies, and they are the way Finland lives today, not its ancient eras from which we have heard the words of Caleb.