| The Tale of Tsar Saltan | |
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 The mythical island of Buyan (illustration by Ivan Bilibin). | |
| Folk tale | |
| Name | The Tale of Tsar Saltan |
| Aarne–Thompson grouping | ATU 707, "The Three Golden Children" |
| Region | Russia |
| Published in | Сказка о царе Салтане (1831), by Александр Сергеевич Пушкин (Alexander Pushkin) |
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich and of the Beautiful Swan-Princess (Russian: «Сказка о царе Салтане, о сыне его славном и могучем богатыре князе Гвидоне Салтановиче и о прекрасной царевне Лебеди», romanized: Skazka o tsare Saltane, o syne yevo slavnom i moguchem bogatyre knyaze Gvidone Saltanoviche i o prekrasnoy tsarevne Lebedi ) is an 1831 fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin.
As a folk tale it is classified as Aarne–Thompson type 707, "The Three Golden Children", for it being a variation of The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird.[1] Similar tales are found across the East Slavic countries and in the Baltic languages.
- ^ Johns, Andreas. Baba Yaga: The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folktale. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. 2010. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-8204-6769-6.