Russian Fairy Tales

Vasilisa the Beautiful at the Hut of Baba Yaga, illustration by Ivan Bilibin

Russian Fairy Tales (Russian: Народные Русские Сказки, variously translated; English titles include also Russian Folk Tales), is a collection of Russian fairy tales, collected by Alexander Afanasyev and published by him between 1855 and 1863. His work was explicitly modeled after the Brothers Grimm's work, Grimm's Fairy Tales.

Vladimir Propp drew heavily on this collection for his analyses in his Morphology of the Folktale.

Fairy tales

Some of the tales included in these volumes:

• The Death of Koschei the Immortal
• Vasilissa the Beautiful
• Vasilisa The Priest’s Daughter
• Father Frost
• Sister Alenushka, Brother Ivanushka
• The Frog Princess
• Vasilii the Unlucky
• The White Duck
• The Princess Who Never Smiled
• The Wicked Sisters
• The Twelve Dancing Princesses
• The Magic Swan Geese
• The Feather of Finist the Falcon
• Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf
• The Sea King 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 Wise Little Girl
• The Armless Maiden
• The Giant Turnip

External links

• Русские народные сказки (Russian fairy tales)
• Russian Fairy Tales (Translated To English)