Russian Magic Tales From Pushkin to Platonov by Chandler, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Contents About the Author Introduction Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov

PART ONE

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin A Tale about a Priest and his Servant Balda A Tale about a Fisherman and a Fish

PART TWO: The First Folktale Collections

Aleksandr Afanasyev The Crane and the Heron The Little Brown Cow Vasilisa the Fair Marya Morevna The Little White Duck The Frog Princess Pig Skin The Tsarevna in an Underground Tsardom The Tsarevna who would not Laugh Misery The Wise Girl Ivan Aleksandrovich Khudyakov The Brother The Stepdaughter and the Stepmother’s Daughter

PART THREE: Early Twentieth-Century Collections

The Tsar Maiden Ivan Mareson Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin Ivan Tsarevich, the Grey Wolf and the Firebird Nikolay Yevgenevich Onchukov The Black Magician Tsar Bronze Brow Olga Erastovna Ozarovskaya The Luck of a Tsarevna Dmitry Konstantinovich Zelenin By the Pike’s Command

PART FOUR

Nadezhda Teffi When the Crayfish Whistled: a Christmas Horror A Little Fairy Tale Baba Yaga (1932 picture book) The Dog (a story from a stranger) Baba Yaga (1947 article)

PART FIVE

Pavel Petrovich Bazhov The Mistress of the Copper Mountain The Stone Flower The Mountain Master Golden Hair

PART SIX: Folktale Collections From the Soviet Period

Erna Vasilyevna Pomerantseva The Cat with the Golden Tail Irina Valeryanovna Karnaukhova Mishka the Bear and Myshka the Mouse Jack Frost Snake-Man The Herder of Hares A Cock and Bull Story A Marvellous Wonder Fyodor Viktorovich Tumilevich The Snake and the Fisherman A. V. Bardin The Everlasting Piece Dmitry Mikhailovich Balashov How a Man Pinched a Girl’s Breast

PART SEVEN

Andrey Platonovich Platonov Finist the Bright Falcon Ivan the Giftless and Yelena the Wise The Magic Ring Ivan the Wonder No-Arms Wool over the Eyes

Appendix: Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East

Who is this wild witch, and why is she riding in a mortar? Other names in the tales The objects around Baba Yaga Baba Yaga in the Russian pantheon Deeper meanings of Baba Yaga Baba Yaga and childbirth Forest, field and fire What other books say about Baba Yaga

Notes Bibliography

1. Russian folktales in English translation 2. Scholarship in English 3. Individual collections of folktales in Russian 4. Anthologies of folktales in Russian 5. Books by individual writers in Russian 6. Scholarly books and articles in Russian 7. Fiction 8. Music

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