songs of literary origin

The article shows how Russian literary songs and song of unhappy love acquires specific national features in the Roma’s performing. Some texts not published before are included. 

The article is dedicated to the analysis of T. M. Akimova’s works on the study of the songs of literary origin. The author acknowledges the methodological line in them, which can be traced to the founder of Saratov philological school A. P. Skaftymov.