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Mikhail Nesterov.The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights. 1889. The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights (Russian: «Сказка о мёртвой царевне и о семи богатырях», romanized: Skazka o myortvoy tsarevne i o semi bogatyryakh, literally: "The Tale of the Dead Tsarevna and of the Seven Bogatyrs") is an 1833 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin ...
Anna was born in Oryol at the mansion of her grandfather, the local governor. She was brought up in Lubny in the Poltava Governorate (present-day Ukraine).On 8 January 1817 she was married by her parents to the 56-year-old General Kern, whom she professed to detest thoroughly.
Thompson divided this type into two categories: 506A, "The Princess Rescued from Slavery", and 506B, "The Princess Rescued from Robbers". Both subtypes were essentially the same: the princess is saved from whatever peril she was in; her saviour (the true hero) is thrown overboard and left to die in the ocean; the grateful dead rescues the hero and takes him to the princess's kingdom, where he ...
The Magic Mirror was the final ballet to be staged by Petipa and was probably his most controversial.Prince Serge Volkonsky commissioned Petipa to create the ballet in 1902, but soon afterwards, Volkonsky was forced to resign from his position as director after an incident with the Prima Ballerina, Mathilde Kschessinskaya and instead, The Magic Mirror was staged under the direction of Col ...
"Iron John" (also "Iron Hans"; German: Der Eisenhans) [1] is a German fairy tale found in the collections of the Brothers Grimm, tale number 136, about an iron-skinned wild man and a prince. The original German title is Eisenhans , a compound of Eisen "iron" and Hans (like English John , a common short form of the personal name Johannes ).
The story of Melusine (also called Melusina) was retold by Letitia Landon in the poem "The Fairy of the Fountains" in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book [25] and reprinted in her collection The Zenana. Here she is representative of the female poet. An analysis can be found in DeLong 2012, pp. 124–131.
"To Helen" is the first of two poems to carry that name written by Edgar Allan Poe. The 15-line poem was written in honor of Jane Stanard, the mother of a childhood friend. [1] It was first published in the 1831 collection Poems of Edgar A. Poe. It was subsequently reprinted in the March 1836 issue of the Southern Literary Messenger.
The Book of the Duchess, also known as The Deth of Blaunche, [1] is the earliest of Chaucer's major poems, preceded only by his short poem, "An ABC", and possibly by his translation of The Romaunt of the Rose. Based on the themes and title of the poem, most sources put the date of composition after 12 September 1368 (when Blanche of Lancaster ...