|
Rjurik Petrovič Lonin — this is the Veps spelling of his name — (; 22 September 1930, Kaskez’ village () in the present Prionezhskiĭ raĭon, Karelian ASSR, Soviet Union – 17 July 2009, Šoutar’v, Prionezhskiĭ raĭon, Republic of Karelia, Russia) was a Veps student of the local lore and collector of Veps folklore, founder of The Rjurik Lonin Veps Ethnographic Museum in Šoutar’v (Shyoltozero), and an author in the Veps and Russian languages. He has been characterised as the most important Veps person ever to have lived and the best known Veps person of his time. ==Biography== Rjurik Lonin was born in the village of Kaskez’ on Lake Onega as the first child from the second marriage of Pjotr Lonin () (b. ca. 1888). His mother was Fjokla Lonina (née Ryabčikova) from Ogerišt, Vehkoi () from the same area.〔Rjurik Lonin: “Vepsän vainioilla”, ''Punalippu'' 1/1982, p. 108.〕 According to Lonin himself, he was named after Prince Rurik of Novgorod. His father believed that Prince Rurik had been Veps by ethnicity.〔Rjurik Lonin: “Kiinnostukseni taustat”. ''Punalippu'' 2/1989, p. 128.〕 Lonin began school in Kaskez’ in the late 1930s. In 1941, when he was 11 years old, the Finnish Army occupied his home area in the Continuation War. He then continued in the Finnish school established by the occupiers. Lonin has said that only two persons from his home village went to evacuation further in the Soviet Union. They were the head of the local kolkhoz, and the teacher Maria Ivanovna Pepšina (b. 1915). They were the only persons in the village who were members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After the Finns retreated, he continued at school with the pre-war teacher. More than half a century later Lonin wrote a book about his war time experiences entitled ''Detstvo, opalyonnoye voĭnoĭ'' (‘A Childhood Scorched by War’). It which was published in 2004. When Lonin was 16 years old, he moved to Petrozavodsk and studied in a vocational school, and from 1948 on he worked as a toolsmith and farm machinery repairman at a garage. While living in the city, Lonin began to write poetry in Veps, and after various episodes he was asked to pay a visit to the Soviet Academy of Sciences, in its Karelian branch, at the Department of Languages, Literature and History (YALI), where Nikolai Bogdanov, researcher of the Veps language, urged him to begin to collect Veps folklore instead of writing poetry, which Lonin then began in 1956. He was no stranger to this task, having begun to collect Russian folk songs in his home village during the Finnish occupation. He now became an assistant to YALI, and he was given a letter of recommendation from the Academy of Sciences. Some items collected by Lonin were published in 1969 in the book ''Obrazcy vepsskoĭ reči'' (‘Samples of the Veps Language’). In the foreword of the book Lonin is described as “a resident of the Šoutar’v village, who is an enthusiastic collector of Veps folklore. In 1958, while still living the Petrozavodsk, Lonin went to a concert held in the Sulazhgora neighbourhood. When the choir sang a Veps number, “Vepsän ma om randanröunal” (‘The Veps Land Lies Along the Shore’), he was overcome by homesickness and decided to move to the village of Šoutar’v, where his parents lived at the time. He found a job as a toolmaker at the village sovkhoz.〔''Punalippu'' 1/1982, p. 108.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ryurik Lonin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|