ENThe author discusses the folk songs run in Lithuanian-Ruthenian lands betvveen two big Polish uprisings in the 19th century. One can detail several thematic motives exploited in the songs. Thus the author enumerates military songs, love songs and ritual songs. The latter ones were connected with both folk and church feasts. Moreover, different religious songs referring to Lithuanian goddesses are described. The author makes also a distinction of two models of perceiving Slavic culture: rusticpastoral and Preslavic-national.