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The Adventures of Dennis (Russian: Денискины рассказы, Deniskiny rasskazy) is a collection of short stories for children written by Soviet author Viktor Dragunsky. They deal with the life of an eight-year-old boy in Moscow in the late 1950s and 1960s, [ 1 ] modelled on the author's son. [ 2 ]
In Russia, the fairy tale is one sub-genre of folklore and is usually told in the form of a short story. They are used to express different aspects of the Russian culture . In Russia, fairy tales were propagated almost exclusively orally, until the 17th century, as written literature was reserved for religious purposes. [ 5 ]
The collection contained fairy and folk tales from Ukraine and Belarus alongside Russian stories. [1] [2] In compiling the work, Afanasyev's editing was informed by the German Grimm's Fairy Tales, Slovak tales collected by Pavol Dobsinsky, Bozena Nemcova's work, Vuk Karadzic's Serbian tales, and other Norwegian, French, and Romanian research. [3]
Chuk and Gek (Russian: Чук и Гек) is a 1939 Russian short-story written by Soviet children's writer Arkady Gaidar. [1] It was adapted as a film in 1953 , directed by Ivan Lukinsky, [ 2 ] and again in 2022.
Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... Pages in category "Russian short stories" The following 17 pages are in this category ...
Title page of the 1st edition of The Malachite Box (as a single volume), 1939.. The Malachite Box or The Malachite Casket (Russian: Малахитовая шкатулка, romanized: Malakhitovaya Shkatulka, IPA: [məlɐˈxʲitəvəjə ʂkɐˈtulkə]) is a book of fairy tales and folk tales (also known as skaz) of the Ural region of Russia compiled by Pavel Bazhov and published from 1936 to 1945.
Illustration of Kolobok from the 1913 A. Medvedev Russian edition (see Category:Kolobok (A. Medvedev)) Kolobok (Cyrillic: колобо́к) is the main character of an East Slavic fairy-tale with the same name, represented as a small yellow spherical bread-like being. The story is often called "Little Round Bun" [1] [2] [3] and sometimes "The ...
Wisdom of Children" (Russian: "Девчонки умнее стариков", also translated as Little Girls Wiser than Men) is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1885. It takes the form of a parable about forgiveness.