Introduction to Moomintroll Studies and their Development in Russia

Abstract

The article by Sergei Troitski is an introduction to the collection of articles dedicated to the investigation of Tove Jansson’s narratives about Moomintrolls. Troitskii provides a brief history of Jansson’s publications in Russia and discusses different aspects of scholarship of her Moomintroll series and their place in Western and Russian literary and cultural studies.   Keywords: Tove Jansson, history of publications in Russia, Western and Russian literature, cultural studies