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Russian Fairy Tales

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Russian Fairy Tales (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]

30 relations: Alexander Afanasyev, Baba Yaga, Brother and Sister, Fable, Fairy tale, Father Frost (fairy tale), Foolish Emilyan and the Talking Fish, Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What, Grimms' Fairy Tales, Ivan Bilibin, Russian Fairy Tales, The Armless Maiden, The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life, The Death of Koschei the Deathless, The Feather of Finist the Falcon, The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa, The Frog Princess, The Gigantic Turnip, The Golden Slipper, The Magic Swan Geese, The Princess Who Never Smiled, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The White Duck, The Wicked Sisters, The Wise Little Girl, Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf, Vasilisa the Beautiful, Vasilisa the Priest's Daughter, Vladimir Propp.

Alexander Afanasyev

Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev (Afanasief, Afanasiev or Afanas'ev, Александр Николаевич Афанасьев) (—) was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer who published nearly 600 Russian fairy and folk tales, one of the largest collections of folklore in the world.

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Baba Yaga

In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga is a supernatural being (or one of a trio of sisters of the same name) who appears as a deformed and/or ferocious-looking woman.

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Brother and Sister

"Brother and Sister" is a well-known European fairy tale which was, among others, written down by the Brothers Grimm in their collection of Children's and Household Tales (Grimm's Fairy Tales).

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Fable

Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized (given human qualities, such as the ability to speak human language) and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a pithy maxim or saying.

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Fairy tale

A fairy tale, wonder tale, magic tale, or Märchen is folklore genre that takes the form of a short story that typically features entities such as dwarfs, dragons, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, griffins, mermaids, talking animals, trolls, unicorns, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments.

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Father Frost (fairy tale)

Morozko (Морозко, Morozko) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki (1855-63).

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Foolish Emilyan and the Talking Fish

Emelya the Simpleton (or At the Pike's Behest) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki.

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Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What

Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What (Пойди туда, не знаю куда, принеси то, не знаю что, translit. Poydi tuda, ne znau cuda, prinesi to, ne znau chto) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki.

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Grimms' Fairy Tales

The Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (lead), is a collection of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers or "Brothers Grimm", Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812.

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Ivan Bilibin

Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (p; – 7 February 1942) was a 20th-century illustrator and stage designer who took part in the Mir iskusstva, contributed to the Ballets Russes, co-founded the Union of Russian Painters (Сою́з ру́сских худо́жников) and from 1937 was a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR.

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Russian Fairy Tales

Russian Fairy Tales (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.

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The Armless Maiden

The Armless Maiden is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Russian Folk Tales.

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The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life

"The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life" is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki.

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The Death of Koschei the Deathless

The Death of Koschei the Deathless or Marya Morevna is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki and included by Andrew Lang in The Red Fairy Book.

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The Feather of Finist the Falcon

The Feather of Finist the Falcon or Finist the Falcon is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki.

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The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa

The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki.

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The Frog Princess

The Frog Princess is a fairy tale that has multiple versions with various origins.

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The Gigantic Turnip

"The Gigantic Turnip" or "The Enormous Turnip" (Репка) is a children's fairy tale of Russian or Slavic origin, written by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy.

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The Golden Slipper

The Golden Slipper is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki.

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The Magic Swan Geese

The Magic Swan Geese or Гуси-лебеди is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Russian Fairy Tales.

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The Princess Who Never Smiled

The Princess Who Never Smiled or The Unsmiling Tsarevna (Царевна Несмеяна) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki.

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The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars

"The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars" is a Serbian fairy tale.

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The Twelve Dancing Princesses

"The Twelve Dancing Princesses" (or "The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes" or "The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces") (Die Zwölf Tanzenden Prinzessinnen in German) is a German fairy tale originally published by the Brothers Grimm in 1812 in Kinder- und Hausmärchen as tale number 133.

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The White Duck

The White Duck (Белая уточка) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki.

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The Wicked Sisters

The Wicked Sisters is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki.

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The Wise Little Girl

The Wise Little Girl is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki.

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Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf

"Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf" is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki.

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Vasilisa the Beautiful

Vasilisa (Василиса Прекрасная) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki.

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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.

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Vladimir Propp

Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; – 22 August 1970) was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analyzed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Fairy_Tales

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