In memory of two prominent philologists and anthropologists

The article is devoted to prominent Russian philologists E. V. Dushechkina (1941–2020) and A. F. Belousov (1946–2023). Graduates of the University of Tartu, students of Yu. M. Lotman, they belonged to the Tartu-Moscow scientific school, began their scientific and teaching activities in Estonia - at the University of Tartu and the Tallinn Pedagogical Institute. Since 1990, the couple lived and worked in St. Petersburg. E.V. Dushechkina was a professor at St. Petersburg University. A.F. Belousov was a senior researcher at the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and then an assistant professor of children's literature at the St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts. In the scientific work of Dushechkina, the main theme was Russian calendar prose and related cultural phenomena. A.F. Belousov became a pioneer in a number of areas of folklore and cultural anthropology related to modern children's and urban folklore, the culture of the Russian provinces. The author pays tribute to the memory of her mentors and colleagues.