Encyclopedism and Freedom of Sergei Zverev’s (Kyyl Uola) Creativity

The biographical boom that the Yakut culture is experiencing, is an objective reflection of a general cultural trend called the “biographical turn”. In relation to cultural studies, such processes are presented in historical personology, which indicates a change in ideas about the role of the individual in socio-cultural processes. We propose the experience of a mosaic (selective) reconstruction of the biography of a person, who being multi-talented, shaped the identity of the Sakha people with his creativity and for three decades, almost single-handedly kept the authenticity of the Yakut culture in the conditions of a social experiment called “building communism”. Approaches characterizing the nature of the folk master’s creativity are outlined. The unique experience of Sergei Zverev (1900 – 1973) represents the cultural heritage of the Sakha people, in fact, the memory of culture. In the format of mythological consciousness – a special vision of the world by the creator – which in the Yakut language is designated by the category of anaar, this state is defined as the ability to embrace the boundless; to comprehend, convey and build a system of representations of the philosophy of the people with gesture, melody and word. All this, due to his natural gift and life experience, was owned by Sergei Zverev. Therefore, with his direct participation, it was possible to synthesize archaic authentic forms of culture with large genres of academic professional forms of culture (the first Yakut ballet and opera). Another attempt is presented to determine the scale of the personality and formulate a rationale for determining the role of the creator in the culture of the people. On the example of the creative searches of the storyteller, dance director, reenactor of ceremonial practices, the specifics of the transition from non-literate forms of culture to written ones are considered.

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