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The Russian folklore creature gives its name to a synonym of Paraceratherium, Indricotherium, the biggest land mammal ever to live. Russian fairy tales. There are more than 600+ Russian fairy tales. Some prominent examples, are -- The Tale of Tsar Saltan; The Death of Koschei the Immortal; Vasilisa the Beautiful; Sister Alenushka and Brother ...
"Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf" (Russian: Сказка об Иване-царевиче, жар-птице и о сером волке) is a Russian fairy tale [1] collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Russian Fairy Tales. [2] It is Aarne-Thompson type 550, the quest for the golden bird/firebird.
Russian Fairy Tales (Russian: Народные русские сказки, variously translated; English titles include also Russian Folk Tales) is a collection of nearly 600 fairy and folktales, collected and published by Alexander Afanasyev between 1855 and 1863. The collection contained fairy and folk tales from Ukraine and Belarus ...
The story is also part of a collection of Russian fairy tales titled Vasilisa The Beautiful: Russian Fairy Tales published by Raduga Publishers first in 1966. The book was edited by Irina Zheleznova, who also translated many of the stories in the book from the Russian including Vasilisa The Beautiful. The book was also translated in Hindi and ...
The Firebird concept has parallels in Iranian legends of magical birds, in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale about The Golden Bird, and related Russian magical birds like the Sirin. The story of the quest itself is closely paralleled by Armenian Hazaran Blbul. In the Armenian tale, however, the bird does not glow, but rather makes the land bloom ...
Koshchei (Russian: Коще́й, romanized: Koshchey, IPA: [kɐˈɕːej]), also Kashchei (Russian: Каще́й, romanized: Kashchey, IPA: [kɐˈɕːej]), often given the epithet "the Immortal", or "the Deathless" (Russian: Бессме́ртный), is an archetypal male antagonist in Russian folklore. The most common feature of tales ...
Russian fairy tales and folk tales were cataloged (compiled, grouped, numbered and published) by Alexander Afanasyev in his 1850s Narodnye russkie skazki. Scholars of folklore still refer to his collected texts when citing the number of a skazka plot.
Bazhov's stories are based on the oral lore of Ural miners and gold prospectors. [13] Mythical creatures such as the Great Snake or the Mistress of the Copper Mountain were well known to Bazhov from stories that were told by his own family members (Pavel Bazhov was born at the village near the Sysert Mining Plant [14]) and by the old men at the plant.