FOLK STORIES AND SONGS ABOUT THE BURYAT USURERS IN THE OLD MONGOLIAN SCRIPT ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE MANUSCRIPT OF DASHI BUBEEV

Abstract

The article reveals the peculiarities of folk stories and songs about some Buryat usurers who lived in the Aginsky steppes of Zabaikalye in the second half of the 19th — first quarter of the 20th centuries, recorded by the Buryat chronicler Dashi Bubeev from the old residents of that time. A particular scientific interest lies in the fact that a previously unknown handwritten source in the old Mongolian script Brief historical notes, stories and songs about the Buryat usurers and noyons (Burayad ulus-yin urda-yin bayad noyad tuqai üge-nüüd ba daγun-uud-un tobči tedüi teüke amui) kept in the Mongolian fund of the Center of Oriental Manuscripts and xylographs of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan studies is introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. In addition to this manuscript, the Mongolian fund contains about thirty other works by the chronicler D. Bubeev. This manuscript is an original monument of Buryat literature and folklore in Old Mongolian script with elements of the genre of travelogue.