The literary work of Ismail Abayev (Izmail-Bey) as a source for the ethnography of the Balkarians (based on the materials of the newspaper "Volny gorets")

The article examines ethnographic plots in the published, but previously unexplored literary works of the first, essentially, Balkar prose writer Ismail Kaitukovich Abaev, characterizing various aspects of the traditional everyday life of the Balkar people and revealing a number of similarities with the traditional everyday life of other peoples of the North Caucasus. I.K. Abaev became the first Balkar prose writer who also wrote in Russian, some of whose works were published in the printed organ of the Caucasian Mensheviks, the newspaper "Volny Gorets", and also one of the first screenwriters from among the North Caucasian peoples, and in the era of the formation of feature films as a new art form. The personality of I.K. Abaev, extraordinary for the North Caucasus of the pre-Soviet and early Soviet period, remains little studied and not as widely known as the figures of some other representatives of the first galaxy of the Balkar intelligentsia. In his short stories, called sketches, I.K. Abaev tried to cover different aspects of the traditional life of the Balkar people: wedding customs, folk games, economic activities, trade and family ties with neighboring peoples, customs of blood feud and atalychestvo. At the same time, some of the plots of his stories are placed in a certain historical context, in particular the events of the early 20th century that took place in the Russian Empire. The biography and work of Ismail Abaev provide interesting and valuable material for Balkar researchers, but at the same time require further, even more in-depth study.

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