Russian Fairy Tales

Vasilisa the Beautiful at the Hut of Baba Yaga, illustration by Ivan Bilibin

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. The collection contained fairy and folk tales from Ukraine and Belarus alongside Russian stories.^[1]^[2] 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.^[3]

Vladimir Propp drew heavily on this collection for his analyses in his Morphology of the Folktale.^{[citation needed]}

Fairy tales[edit]

Some of the tales included in these volumes:

References[edit]

^ 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.
^ Haney, Jack V. (2014). "Introduction: A.N. Afanas'ev: His Life and Works". In Haney, Jack V. (ed.). The Complete Folktales of A.N. Afanas'ev. Vol. I. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. pp. xxiv, xxvii. ISBN 978-1-62846-094-0.
^ Haney, Jack V. (2014). "Introduction: A.N. Afanas'ev: His Life and Works". The complete folktales of A.N. Afanas'ev. Vol. I. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. pp. XIX. ISBN 978-1-62846-094-0.

Publications[edit]

Afanasyev, Alexander (1984) [1873], Народные русские сказки [National Russian Tales] (in Russian) (2nd ed.) , 3 vols, (first edition 1859)
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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"

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[1] 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.

[2] Haney, Jack V. (2014). "Introduction: A.N. Afanas'ev: His Life and Works". In Haney, Jack V. (ed.). The Complete Folktales of A.N. Afanas'ev. Vol. I. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. pp. xxiv, xxvii. ISBN 978-1-62846-094-0.

[3] Haney, Jack V. (2014). "Introduction: A.N. Afanas'ev: His Life and Works". The complete folktales of A.N. Afanas'ev. Vol. I. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. pp. XIX. ISBN 978-1-62846-094-0.

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