“The notes” of Akhmad Ibn Fadlan and “The funeral of the Russian noble in Bulgar” of G.I. Semiradskiy

Abstract

In “Historical sketches of folk literature in art” book devoted to this subject, F.I. Buslayev developed the idea that “the closer to its primitive source the literary and artistic elements include completely into each other and as a scribe and sometimes the author was both the illuminator of his manuscriptand literary historian reads very often to the end the idea of writings, being
not completely expressed in lines in miniatures by which manuscript has been illuminated. The validity of these lines becomes apparent when we compare the extract from “The notes” Ibn Fadlan with work of G.I. Semiradskiy “The funeral of the Russian noble in Bulgar” which is located in the State Historical Museum in Moscow.