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Alexander Afanasyev. Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev [a] (Russian: Александр Николаевич Афанасьев; 23 July [ O.S. 11 July] 1826 – 5 October [ O.S. 23 September] 1871) was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer who published nearly 600 Russian fairy and folk tales, one of the largest collections of folklore in the ...
Alexander Afanasyev Alexander Afanasyev. Alexander Afanasyev began collecting fairy tales at a time when folklore was viewed as simple entertainment. His interest in folklore stemmed from his interest in ancient Slavic mythology. During the 1850s, Afanasyev began to record part of his collection from tales dating to Boguchar, his
Synopsis. By his first wife, a merchant had a single daughter, who was known as Vasilisa the Beautiful. When the girl was eight years old, her mother died; when it became clear that she was dying, she called Vasilisa to her bedside, where she gave Vasilisa a tiny, wooden, one-of-a-kind doll talisman (a Motanka doll), with explicit instructions ...
Alexander Afanasyev collected eight variants in his original compilation of Russian folk tales, under the banner "Сказка о молодце-удальце, молодильных яблоках и живой воде" ("Tale of The Brave Youth, the Rejuvenating Apples and the Water of Life"). In some of the variants, the king dreams that ...
Alexander Stepanovich Afanasyev (Russian: Александр Степанович Афанасьев, 12 March 1817 – 18 September 1875) was a Russian and Ukrainian poet, writer, editor, ethnographer and translator (from Polish and English ). In 1853 he started using the pseudonym Чужбинский (Chuzhbinsky) and has been known mostly ...
The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa. The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa ( Russian: Жар-птица и царевна Василиса) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki. It is one of many tales written about the mythical Firebird . It is Aarne-Thompson type 531. Other tales of this type include ...
The Master Maid. The Sea Tsar and Vasilisa the Wise ( Russian: Морской царь и Василиса Премудрая, romanized : Morskoi Tsar i Vasilisa Premudraya) is a Russian fairy tale published by author Alexander Afanasyev in his collection of Russian Fairy Tales, numbered 219. The tale features legendary characters Sea Tsar and ...
Launched. May 1999; 25 years ago. ( 1999-05) RateMyProfessors.com ( RMP) is a review site founded in May 1999 by John Swapceinski, a software engineer from Menlo Park, California, which allows anyone to assign ratings to professors and campuses of American, Canadian, and United Kingdom institutions. [1] The site was originally launched as ...