1) Literary terminology 
Skaz (сказ) is a Russian literary term that describes a particularly oral form of narrative. The word comes from skazat, `to tell`, and is also related to such words as rasskaz, `short story` and skazka, `fairy tale`. The speech makes use of dialect and slang in order to take on the persona of a particular character. The peculiar speech,...
Thief.
in Russian literature, a written narrative that imitates a spontaneous oral account in its use of dialect, slang, and the peculiar idiom of that ...
A Russian yarn or tall tale in which the author dons the voice or persona of a fictitious narrator (