Nikolay Petrovich Andreyev () (1892– January 15, 1942) was a Soviet folklorist, literary scholar, professor at the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute (now the

Herzen University Herzen University, or formally the Russian State Pedagogical University in the name of A. I. Herzen () is a university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was formerly known as the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute. It is one of the largest ...

). He if known for the research and classification of Russian and Ukrainian folklore.Андреев Николай Петрович (1892-1942)
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World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

Siege of Leningrad The siege of Leningrad was a Siege, military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front (World War II), Eastern Front of World War II from 1941 t ...

.Владимир Бахтин (author and editor), ''Ленинградские писатели-фронтовики'',

Leningrad Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

, Советский писатель, 1985

Works

*1929
Н.П. - Указатель сказочных сюжетов по системе Аарне.pdf
''Указатель сказочных сюжетов по системе Аарне''] ndex of Fairy Tale Motifs According to the Aaarne System*1934: ''К характеристике украинского сказочного материала'' *1936: ''Русская баллада'' *1936: ''Фольклор и его история'' He also published several anthologies of Russian folklore.

References

1892 births 1942 deaths Soviet philologists Soviet ethnographers Kazan Federal University alumni {{USSR-bio-stub