This volume of folktales from the Far North of European Russia features seventeen works by five narrators of the Russian tale, all recorded in the twentieth century. The tales, distinguished by their extraordinary length and by the manner in which they were commonly told, appear to have flourished o[...]
This is the first volume of a comprehensive gathering of tales from Russia's equivalent to the Brothers Grimm. The folktales of Alexander Afanas'ev represent the largest single collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the world. Widely regarded as the Russian equivalent of the[...]