Background
Elpidifor Vasilyevich Barsov was born on November 13, 1836, in the village Loginovo (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation) in the family of a village priest. His childhood he spent in Andoga village.
Elpidifor Vasilyevich Barsov was born on November 13, 1836, in the village Loginovo (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation) in the family of a village priest. His childhood he spent in Andoga village.
As his father was a priest Elpidifor Vasilyevich received theological education. He studied at school of theology in Ustyuzhna, the Theological Seminary in Novgorod and the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy.
Elpidifor Vasilyevich published several acclaimed books, including Peter the Great in the Legends of the Northern Krai (1872), The Old Russian Tsars and Princes in the Northern Krai Legends (1877) and The Northern Krai Lamentations (1872-1885), the latter introducing the readership to the previously unknown genre of the regional Russian folklore.
(Russian Edition)
1872