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.[1] The collection contained fairy and folk tales from Ukraine and Belarus alongside Russian stories.[2] His literary work was explicitly modeled after Grimm's Fairy Tales.
^Alexander Afanasyev. Russian Fairy Tale — K. Soldatenkov and N. Shchepkin, 1855—1863. — Vol. 1—8
^Suwyn, Barbara J. (1997). Kononenko, Natalie O. (ed.). The magic egg and other tales from Ukraine. World folklore series. Englewood, Colo: Libr. Unlimited. pp. xxi.
ISBN978-1-56308-425-6.
"ИЗДАНИЯ СБОРНИКОВ А. Н. АФАНАСЬЕВА" [Collections of Editions by Alexander Afanasyev], ЭНИ "Сказки", Фундаментальная электронная библиотека "Русская литература и фольклор" [Fundamental Electronic Library - Russian Literature and Folklore] , lists and descriptions of editions of the work