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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 ...
A Russian fairy tale or folktale (Russian: ска́зка; skazka; plural Russian: ска́зки, romanized: skazki) is a fairy tale in Russian culture. Various sub-genres of skazka exist. A volshebnaya skazka [волше́бная ска́зка] (literally "magical tale") is considered a magical tale.
Father Frost (fairy tale) The Feather of Finist the Falcon; The Fiend; The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa; The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish; Flying Ship; The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (book) The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship; The Frog Princess
"Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf" (Russian: Сказка об Иване-царевиче, жар-птице и о сером волке) is a Russian fairy tale [1] collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Russian Fairy Tales. [2] It is Aarne-Thompson type 550, the quest for the golden bird/firebird.
Vasilisa the Beautiful is a popular Russian fairy tale that tells the story of a young girl named Vasilisa who is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters.The story features elements of magic, adventure, and fantasy, with various characters and creatures like Baba Yaga playing a prominent role.
"The Gigantic Turnip" or "The Enormous Turnip" (Russian: Репка, Repka, IPA:, literally "small turnip"; ATU 2044, ‘Pulling up the turnip') is a cumulative Russian fairy tale, collected in Arkhangelsk Governorate and published in 1863 by folklore researcher Alexander Afanasyev in his collection Russian Fairy Tales (tale number 89), a collection not strictly Russian, but which included ...
Written as an epic literary fairy tale consisting of a dedication (посвящение [1]), six "cantos" , and an epilogue (эпилог), it tells the story of the abduction of Ludmila, the daughter of Prince Vladimir of the Kievan Rus' (reigned 980–1015), by an evil wizard and the attempt by the brave knight Ruslan to find and rescue her.
Russian scholarship classifies the tale, in the East Slavic Folktale Classification (Russian: СУС, romanized: SUS), as tale type SUS 465A, "Красавица-жена («Пойди туда, не знаю куда»)" ("Beautiful Wife ('Go Somewhere, I Don't Know Where')"): a royal archer (or a poor man) marries a supernatural maiden; the emperor, wishing to have her to himself, sends the ...