Background
She lived near the Vilnus in the village of Goubenschina (now it's Krychevsk district of Mogilev region).
She lived near the Vilnus in the village of Goubenschina (now it's Krychevsk district of Mogilev region).
specialist in folklore
She put down Belorussian folk songs and rites. She is the author of the article "The elements of Slav Mythology, Preserved in Customs of rural population in Belarus" (in "Vilnus Diary" 1817,v.6). The article was published in "European Bullet" in 1818 (p.102) and "The North Archieves in 1822 (p.4). She was the first to provide belorusian folk songs and scientific commentaries. She described Kupalle, Radaunitsa and other holidays. She studied charaacters of popular mythology, dishes, clothes, rural belorusian style of life. She paid attention to the existenxce if spiritual culture of Belorusians, furthermore she emphasized, that peasantry is a keeper of ancient traditions. She considered folk-ethnographic aspect as the main local problem.(G.A.Kahanovskiy).