Russian Fairy Tales

This article is about the collection of Slavic fairy tales compiled by folklorist A.N. Afanas'ev. For the more general article on the Russian fairy tale, see Russian fairy tale.
For other uses, see Russian Fairy Tales (disambiguation).

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]

  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.