''Russian Fairy Tales'' (russian: Народные русские сказки, variously translated; English titles include also ''Russian Folk Tales'') is a collection of nearly 600
fairy
A fairy (also fay, fae, fey, fair folk, or faerie) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature found in the folklore of multiple European cultures (including Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, English, and French folklore), a form of spirit, ...
and
folktales, collected and published by
Alexander Afanasyev between 1855 and 1863. The collection contained fairy and folk tales from Ukraine and Belarus alongside Russian stories. In compiling the work, Afanasyev's editing was informed by the German ''
Grimm's Fairy Tales,'' Slovak tales collected by
Pavol Dobsinsky,
Bozena Nemcova's work,
Vuk Karadzic's Serbian tales, and other Norwegian, French, and Romanian research.
Vladimir Propp
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (russian: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; – 22 August 1970) was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irredu ...
drew heavily on this collection for his analyses in his ''
Morphology of the Folktale
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (russian: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; – 22 August 1970) was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irredu ...
''.
Fairy tales
Some of the tales included in these volumes:
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The Death of Koschei the Immortal
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Vasilisa the Beautiful
Vasilisa the Beautiful (russian: Василиса Прекрасная) or Vasilisa the Fair is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in ''Narodnye russkie skazki''.
Synopsis
By his first wife, a merchant had a single daughter, w ...
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Vasilisa the Priest's Daughter
''Vasilisa the Priest's Daughter'' (Afanasyev 131-133) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Aleksandr Afanasyev in ''Narodnye russkie skazki''.Afanas’ev, Aleksandr. ''Russian Fairy Tales.'' New York, NY: Pantheon Books, Inc. (1945).
Synopsis
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* Father Frost (fairy tale), Father Frost
* Brother and Sister, Sister Alenushka, Brother Ivanushka
* The Frog Princess
* The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, 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
* Foolish Emilyan and the Talking Fish, 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 (Russian fairy tale), Donotknow
References
Publications
* , 3 vols, (first edition 1859)
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vol. 1vol. 2vol. 3
;Translations
:Extracts of limited selections of stories from the books have been used several times in translation, these include :
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*Alexander Afanasyev. ''Russian Fairy Tales''. Translated by Norbert Guterman. NY: Pantheon, 1973, 672p.
The table of contents is available in the sample
External links
* , lists and descriptions of editions of the work
Русские народные сказки, e-texts of "Russian fairy tales"
Collections of fairy tales
Fairy tales collected by Alexander Afanasyev,
1855 books
Slavic folklore
Slavic fairy tales
Belarusian folklore
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