Retelling Legend of City of Kitezh in Video Texts by YouTube Bloggers

This article examines the functioning of traditional genre Russian folklore, specifically religious legend, through example retelling legend city Kitezh on YouTube. The paper highlights specifics video content YouTube, which can be defined as multimodal texts. is presented in two main types: variants texts recorded earlier and conveying personal verbalized mystical experience communication with (folklore legend). identifies three types previously legend: brief retellings, expanded retellings reference to “The Chronicler,” addition other historical, quasi-historical, mythological elements. establishes that these distributed into groups depending number resources used: weak multimodality — using only resources; medium or more strong than 4—5 resources. shows told / retold a fragment complex text cycle