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Russian ethnographer and storyteller Alexander Afanasiev compiled and published the best known collection of Russian tales around the middle of the nineteenth century. The numerous tales were slowly gathered, rewritten, then presented in three separate volumes. Raduga Publishers of Moscow is continuing this tradition by offering the collection of Russian Folk Tales from Alexander Afanasiev's Collection. This volume is titled "Words of Wisdom" after one of the stories in this volume.
These popular folk and fairy tales are often used in miniature lacquer art in all three villages. This volume happens to be illustrated with wonderful prints of lacquer art by Alexander Kurkin, a famous and well-established artist from Palekh. Each of the stories begins with a close-up of a colorful painting at the top of the page above the title of the tale, then there is a full-size print of a lacquer box by Kurkin to accompany it (see the sample pages). There are 176 pages with forty-two stories in all! Contents: The Peasant, the Bear and the Fox......................3 The Crane and the Heron....................................6 The Sheep, the Fox and the Wolf........................9 Silly Old Grey Wolf..........................................12 Mistress Fox the Confessor..............................16 Mistress Fox the Midwife.................................19 A Hen for a Shoe, a Goose for a Hen...............22 The Goat With the Peeling Side........................25 The Bubble, the Straw and the Bast Shoe.........28 Father Frost.....................................................30 Tiny.................................................................34 Wee Little Havroshechka.................................38 The Crystal Mountain.......................................42 Fearless Frolka................................................46 Ivan the Bull's Son............................................51 Princess Never-A-Smile...................................64 The Rooster and the Millstones.........................68 The Tsar Maiden..............................................71 The Lad Who Knew the Language of Birds.......76 The Enchanted Princess.....................................80 The Princesses Who Danced the Nights Away...87 Bad Luck and Good Luck.................................91 The Early Match................................................95 Lutonya.............................................................99 The Snake Princess..........................................102 The Wonder of Wonders..................................107 The Seven Simeons..........................................110 The Birch-Tree and the Three Falcons..............113 The Magic Box................................................116 The Golden Shoe.............................................120 Words of Wisdom...........................................123 Tereshechka....................................................127 The Apples of Youth and the Water of Life......131 The Petrified Kingdom.....................................138 The Wood Goblin............................................142 Dead Men's Tales............................................145 Witches' Tales..................................................152 The Daring Workman.......................................156 Hocus Pocus....................................................159 The Biter Bit.....................................................163 The Exchange...................................................166 Foma Berennikov.............................................171 c. Raduga Publishers, 1998. Hardcover, 176 pages. Item Specifications:
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