Wacław Sieroszewski – badania zesłańca syberyjskiego nad muzyką Jakutów w XIX wieku
Wacław Sieroszewski – a Deportee Exiled to Siberia and His Studies into the Yakutian Music in the Nineteenth Century

Summary/Abstract: Wacław Sieroszewski, a nineteenth-century writer, politician and deportee is the author of a monograph titled 'Якуты. Опыт этнографического исследования' (Âkuty. Opytètnografičeskogo issledovaniâ), published in 1896. The study was awarded a golden medal by the Russian Geographic Society and remains to this day the most uthoritative source of knowledge about the life and culture of the Sakha people.The article consists of two parts. In the first part, the author included an overview of Sieroszewski’s life and work, his activity in exile and legacy. The second part presents Sieroszewski’s accounts of Yakutian music, with emphasis on the functioning of song and dance in the daily lives and rituals of the Yakuts. In addition, the text contains a transcript of a song from the Olonho epic and a classification of vocal music in tabular format.

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