Summary
Aleksandr Valentinovič Amfiteatrov: Devil in everyday life, legends and literature of the Middle Ages
Aleksandr Vasiljevič Amfiteatrov (1862-1938), Russian, then Russian Soviet writer, and as a writer of Russian emigration he published, among other places, in Novi Sad and Belgrade. He published articles written during his travels in the Balkans - Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro - in Moscow's New Times, St. Petersburg's Naša gazeta, Odeski novosti and the newspaper Kijevska misao, and in 1912 he combined them and published them in the book Slavic accident. Novelist, storyteller, playwright, journalist and essayist, A.V. Amfiteatrov lived to see his works published in Russia in 37 volumes between 1910-1916, and even in emigration, where he found himself from 1921, he continued to write. One of his most interesting works is The Devil in Everyday Life, Legends and Literature of the Middle Ages, in which, focusing mostly on the Middle Ages, in thirteen chapters, from the Genealogy and Evolution of Satan to the Death of the Devil, he presented the entire development path of this idea in various, mostly European countries.
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