Russian Fairy Tales
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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] The collection contained fairy and folk tales from Ukraine and Belarus alongside Russian stories.[2] 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[edit]
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
- Snegurochka, or The Snow Maiden
- 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 Tsar 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
- The Fiend or The Vampire (Upyr)
- The Lute Player
- The Language of the Birds
- The Norka
- The Maiden Tsar
- Sivko-Burko
- Donotknow
References[edit]
Russian Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- ^ Alexander Afanasyev. Russian Fairy Tale — K. Soldatenkov and N. Shchepkin, 1855—1863. — Vol. 1—8
- ^ Suwyn, Barbara J. (1997). Kononenko, Natalie O. (ed.). The magic egg and other tales from Ukraine. World folklore series. Englewood, Colo: Libr. Unlimited. pp. xxi. ISBN 978-1-56308-425-6.
Publications[edit]
- 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)
- Alexander Afanasyev. Russian Fairy Tales. Translated by Norbert Guterman. NY: Pantheon, 1973, 672p. (The table of contents is available in the sample)
External links[edit]
- "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 Folklore] , lists and descriptions of editions of the work
- Русские народные сказки , e-texts of "Russian fairy tales"