Background
YELEONSKAYA, Yelena was born on July 25, 1873 in Moscow.
YELEONSKAYA, Yelena was born on July 25, 1873 in Moscow.
Specialized in folklore and ethnography under V.F. Miller. Worked for journals “Etnograficheskoye obozreniye”, “Russkiy arkhiv”, etc, in which she published some 100 articles, reviews and summaries on folklore and ethnography. Together with Miller, prepared for the press the collections Byliny novoy i nedavney zapisi iz raznykh mestnostey Rossii (Folk Epics from Different Localities of Russia, Recently and Formerly Recorded) (1908) and Istoricheskiye pesni russkogo naroda 16-17 vekov (Historical Songs of the Russian People from the 16th and 17th Centuries) (1915).