KENOZERIE SPIRITUAL CULTURE IN SACRAL TOPOGRAPHY AND EPIC TRADITION
The most significant objects of sacral topography - monasteries, sacred groves, chapels, bow crosses are considered through the prism of folk beliefs and legends. Legends, tales, popular beliefs connected with the Kenozerie sacred sites are shown as live culture phenomena, revealing contents and functions of sacral objects in cultural landscape. The most important element of Kenozerie cultural space is epic tradition, traced in this territory since the end of the 19th century. Its genres and research history shows Kenozerie as unique treasury of spiritual culture of Russia and the world.