Russian Fairy Tales

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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.^[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 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

References[]

Russian Wikisource has original text related to this article: Народные_русские_сказки_(Афанасьев)

Publications[]

Translations

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 Folklore] , lists and descriptions of editions of the work
• Русские нар��дные сказки , e-texts of "Russian fairy tales"

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