Russian Fairy Tales

{{Short description|19th century fairy tale collection}} {{About|the collection of Slavic fairy tales compiled by folklorist A.N. Afanas'ev|the more general article on the Russian fairy tale|Russian fairy tale}} {{other uses}} {{italic title}} {{more citations needed|date=December 2009}} [[Image:Russian Wonder Tales 081.jpg|right|thumb|250px|[[Vasilisa the Beautiful]] at the Hut of [[Baba Yaga]], illustration by [[Ivan Bilibin]]]] '''''Russian Fairy Tales''''' ({{langx|ru|Народные русские сказки}}, variously translated; English titles include also '''''Russian Folk Tales''''') is a collection of nearly 600 [[fairy tale|fairy]] and [[Fable|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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Suwyn |first=Barbara J. |title=The magic egg and other tales from Ukraine |publisher=Libr. Unlimited |year=1997 |isbn=978-1-56308-425-6 |editor-last=Kononenko |editor-first=Natalie O. |series=World folklore series |location=Englewood, Colo |pages=xxi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Haney |first=Jack V. |title=The Complete Folktales of A.N. Afanas'ev |date=2014 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-62846-094-0 |editor-last=Haney |editor-first=Jack V. |volume=I |location=Jackson |pages=xxiv, xxvii |chapter=Introduction: A.N. Afanas'ev: His Life and Works}}</ref> In compiling the work, Afanasyev's editing was informed by the German ''[[Grimm's Fairy Tales]],'' Slovak tales collected by [[Pavol Dobšinský]], [[Božena Němcová]]'s work, [[Vuk Karadžić]]'s Serbian tales, and other Norwegian, French, and Romanian research.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Haney |first=Jack V. |title=The complete folktales of A.N. Afanas'ev |date=2014 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-62846-094-0 |volume=I |location=Jackson |pages=XIX |chapter=Introduction: A.N. Afanas'ev: His Life and Works}}</ref>

[[Vladimir Propp]] drew heavily on this collection for his analyses in his ''[[Morphology of the Folktale]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Propp |first=V. |title=Morphology of the folktale |date=1968 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-292-78376-8 |edition=2d |series=Publications of the American Folklore Society |location=Austin |pages=23-24}}</ref>

==Fairy tales== Some of the tales included in these volumes: * [[The Death of Koschei the Deathless|The Death of Koschei the Immortal]] * [[Vasilisa the Beautiful]] * [[Vasilisa the Priest's Daughter]] * [[Father Frost (fairy tale)|Father Frost]] * [[Brother and Sister|Sister Alenushka, Brother Ivanushka]] * [[The Frog Princess]] * [[The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars|Vasilii the Unlucky]] * [[The White Duck]] * [[The Princess Who Never Smiled]] * [[Snegurochka]], or The Snow Maiden * [[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]] * [[Foolish Emilyan and the Talking Fish|Emelya the Simpleton]] * [[Dawn, Midnight and Twilight]] * [[The Fiend]] or The Vampire (''Upyr'') * [[The Lute Player (fairy tale)|The Lute Player]] * [[The Language of the Birds]] * [[The Norka]] * [[The Maiden Tsar]] * [[Sivko-Burko]] * [[Donotknow (Russian fairy tale)|Donotknow]]

==References== {{Wikisourcelang|ru|Народные русские сказки (Афанасьев)}} {{Reflist}}

===Publications=== {{refbegin}} *{{citation| first = Alexander | last = Afanasyev | author-link = Alexander Afanasyev | title = Народные русские сказки | trans-title = National Russian Tales | url = https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Народные_русские_сказки_(Афанасьев)| orig-year = 1873 |edition = 2nd | year = 1984 | language = ru }}, 3 vols, (first edition 1859) **alt links [https://www.e-reading.club/book.php?book=101502 vol. 1], [https://www.e-reading.club/book.php?book=101503 vol. 2], [https://www.e-reading.club/book.php?book=131312 vol. 3] {{refend}}

;Translations {{refbegin}} :Extracts of limited selections of stories from the books have been used several times in translation, these include : *{{citation| first = Alexander | last = Afanasyev | author-link = Alexander Afanasyev | editor-first = Leonard A.| editor-last = Magnus |editor-link=Leonard Arthur Magnus| title = Russian Folk Tales | url = https://archive.org/details/russianfolktales00afan_0 | year = 1916| language = en }} *{{citation| first = Alexander | last = Afanasyev | author-link = Alexander Afanasyev | editor-first = Anna | editor-last = Meyer | title = Russische volksmärchen | url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_QIQmAAAAMAAJ | year = 1906 | publisher = Wien, C.W. Stern | language = de }} *Alexander Afanasyev. ''Russian Fairy Tales''. Translated by [[Norbert Guterman]]. NY: Pantheon, 1973, 672p. ([https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Fairy-Pantheon-Folklore-Library/dp/0394730909?asin=0394730909&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1 The table of contents is available in the sample]) {{refend}}

==External links== *{{citation| url = https://feb-web.ru/feb/skazki/default.asp?/feb/skazki/texts/rub4.html | title =ИЗДАНИЯ СБОРНИКОВ А. Н. АФАНАСЬЕВА | trans-title = Collections of Editions by Alexander Afanasyev | work = ЭНИ "Сказки" | publisher =Фундаментальная электронная библиотека "Русская литература и фольклор" [Fundamental Electronic Library - Russian Literature and Folklore] }}, lists and descriptions of editions of the work * [https://hyaenidae.narod.ru/ Русские народные сказки], e-texts of "Russian fairy tales"

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