Russian Fairy Tales
Russian Fairy Tales (Russian: Народные Русские Сказки, variously translated; English titles include also Russian Folk Tales) is a collection of nearly 600 fairy and folktales, collected and published by Alexander Afanasyev between 1855 and 1863.[1] His literary work was explicitly modeled after Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Vladimir Propp drew heavily on this collection for his analyses in his Morphology of the Folktale.
Fairy tales
Some of the tales included in these volumes:
- The Death of Koschei the Immortal
- Vasilisa the Beautiful
- Vasilisa the Priest's Daughter
- Father Frost
- Sister Alenushka, Brother Ivanushka
- The Frog Princess
- Vasilii the Unlucky
- The White Duck
- The Princess Who Never Smiled
- The Wicked Sisters
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- The Magic Swan Geese
- The Feather of Finist the Falcon
- Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf
- The Sea King and Vasilisa the Wise
- The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life
- Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What
- The Golden Slipper
- The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa
- The Armless Maiden
- The Gigantic Turnip
- Emelya the Simpleton
- Dawn, Midnight and Twilight
References
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- Alexander Afanasyev. Russian Fairy Tale — K. Soldatenkov and N. Shchepkin, 1855—1863. — Vol. 1—8
Publications
- Afanasyev, Alexander (1984) [1873], Народные русские сказки [National Russian Tales] (in Russian) (2nd ed.) , 3 vols, (first edition 1859)
- Translations
- Extracts of limited selections of stories from the books have been used several times in translation, these include :
- Afanasyev, Alexander (1916), Magnus, Leonard A. (ed.), Russian Folk Tales
- Afanasyev, Alexander (1906), Meyer, Anna (ed.), Russische volksmärchen (in German)
External links
- "ИЗДАНИЯ СБОРНИКОВ А. Н. АФАНАСЬЕВА" [Collections of Editions by Alexander Afanasyev], ЭНИ "Сказки", Фундаментальная электронная библиотека "Русская литература и фольклор" [Fundamental Electronic Library - Russian Literature and Folkore] , lists and descriptions of editions of the work
- Русские народные сказки , e-texts of "Russian fairy tales"
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