“Sadistic poems” from the archive of children’s folklore of A. F. Belousov[«Садистские Стишки» Из Архива Детского Фольклора А. Ф. Белоусова]

This publication presents a collection of sadistic poems from the archive of children’s folklore recordings, collected in the 1980s during university teaching practices at the Tallinn Pedagogical Institute under the supervision of Alexander Fedorovich Belousov. The collection, consisting of 49 general notebooks, was donated by Belousov’s children for processing and archiving in the Electronic Archive of Russian Everyday Life. The author undertook the task of archiving the materials received for desk research, then systematizing the sadistic poems contained in the archive, following the principles used for publishing A. F. Belousov’s poems in the collection Russian School Folklore. The goal was to supplement the entries with all the variants found in his archive. The index includes numbering for stories, versions, and their subtypes, as well as designations for long and short versions of the poems. Information on the number of variants contained in the archive, with references to archival units, is provided in page footnotes. As a result of working with the archive, the titles of the stories were clarified, improving the classification of poem variants. Furthermore, the list reflects new stories that expand A. F. Belousov’s index. When publishing new stories, an effort was made to integrate them into the logic of the original index, placing the texts within blocks of thematically similar stories and adding notes such as bis, ter, quater to preserve the original numbering.