Narodnye russkie skazki

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Narodnye russkie skazki (variously translated; English titles include Russian Fairy Tales and 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.

While it has long been noted that many fairy tales contain no fairies, this collection contains none. Some translators have therefore tried to refer to them as "wonder tales" or other, more accurate terms, but the usual terminology has prevailed, despite its inaccuracy.

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

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Some of the tales included in these volumes:

• The Death of Koschei the Deathless
• Vasilissa the Beautiful
• Father Frost
• Sister Alenushka, Brother Ivanushka
• The Frog Princess
• Vasilii the Unlucky
• The White Duck
• The Princess Who Never Smiled
• The Wicked Sisters
• The Secret Ball
• 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