Czech Puppet Theatre and Russian Folk Theatre

Pyotr Grigor'evich Bogatyrev (1893–1971) cofounded the Moscow Linguistic Circle with Roman Jakobson in 1915, and later made major contributions to the Prague Linguistic Circle (or “Prague School”), which was active from 1926 until the late 1940s. Bogatyrev was particularly interested in the linguistic and physical aspects of folklore, specifically including puppet theater, folk costumes, games, songs, riddles, and carnivals.