| The Princess Who Never Smiled | |
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 The Princess Who Never Smiled, painting by Viktor Vasnetsov | |
| Folk tale | |
| Name | The Princess Who Never Smiled |
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| Aarne–Thompson grouping | ATU 559 (Making the Princess Laugh) |
| Region | Russia |
| Published in | Russian Fairy Tales, by Alexander Afanasyev |
The Princess Who Never Smiled, The Unsmiling Tsarevna or The Tsarevna who Would not Laugh[1] (Russian: Царевна Несмеяна, Tsarevna Nesmeyana) is a Russian folk fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki, as tale number 297.
- ^ Haney, Jack V. (2015). The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev, Volume II: Black Art and the Neo-Ancestral Impulse. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 459–461. ISBN 978-1-4968-0278-1. Project MUSE book 42506.