Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev
Subtitle: Volume I
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9781628460933
Subjects: Tales, russia (federation)
Description: The folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev represent the largest single collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the world. Widely regarded as the Russian Grimm, Afanas'ev collected folktales from throughout the Russian Empire in what are now regarded as the three East Slavic languages, Byelorusian, Russian, and Ukrainian. The result of his own collecting, the collecting of friends and correspondents, and in a few cases his publishing of works from earlier and forgotten collections is truly phenomenal. In his lifetime, Afanas'ev published more than 575 tales in his most popular and best known work, Narodnye russkie skazki.