Russian magic tales from Pushkin to Platonov

Russian magic tales from Pushkin to Platonov

Book - 2012

For fans of fairy tales and the literary supernatural: a unique collection of Russian short stories from the last 200 years. In these folk tales, young women go on long and perilous quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese, and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talking skulls, stolen wives, and brothers disguised as wise birds. Some of the stories here were collected by folklorists during the last two centuries, while the others are reworkings of oral tales by four of the greatest writers in Russian literature: Nadezhda Teffi, Pavel Bazhov, Andrey Platonov, and Alexander Pushkin, author of Eugene Onegin, the classic Russian novel in verse. Among the many classic stories incl...uded here are the tales of Baba Yaga, Vasilisa the Beautiful, Father Frost, and the Frog Princess.

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Subjects
Short stories, Russian > Translations into English.
Tales > Russia.
Tales > Soviet Union.
Folklore > Russia.
Folklore > Soviet Union.
Short stories.
Genres
Short stories
Published
London ; New York : Penguin Books 2012.
Language
English
Russian
Other Authors
Robert Chandler, 1953- (-), Elizabeth Chandler, 1947-, Sibelan E. S. (Sibelan Elizabeth S.) Forrester, Anna Gunin, Olʹga Meerson
Physical Description
xxi, 466 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-438).
ISBN
9780141442235
  • A tale about a priest and his servant Balda ; A tale about a fisherman and a fish / Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837)
  • 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 the underground tsardom ; The tsarevna who would not laugh ; Misery ; The wise girl / Aleksandr Afanasyev (1826-71)
  • The brother ; The stepdaughter and the stepmother's daughter / Ivan Khudyakov (1842-76) ; (tr. Sibelan Forrester)
  • The tsar maiden ; Ivan Mareson / from the journal Zhivaya starina ('The living past' 1890-1908)
  • Ivan Tsarevich, the grey wolf and the firebird / Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942)
  • The black magician tsar ; Bronze brow / Nikolay Onchukov (1872-1942)
  • The luck of a tsarevna / Olga Ozarovskaya (1874-1931)
  • By the pike's command / Dmitry Zelenin (1878-1954)
  • When the crayfish whistled : a Christmas horror ; A little fairy tale ; Baba Yaga (1932 picture book) ; The dog ; Baba Yaga (1947 article) / Nadezhda Teffi (Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, 1872-1952)
  • The mistress of the copper mountain ; The stone flower ; The mountain master ; Golden hair / Pavel Bazhov (1879-1950) ; (tr. Anna Gunin)
  • The cat with the golden tale / Erna Pomerantseva (1899-1980)
  • Mishka the bear and Myshka the mouse ; Jack Frost ; Snake-man ; The herder of hares ; A cock and bull story ; A marvellous wonder / Irina Karnaukhova (1901-59)
  • The snake and the fisherman / Fyodor Tumilevich (1910-79)
  • The everlasting piece / A.V. Bardin (1888-1962)
  • How a man pinched a girl's breast / Dmitry Balashov (1927-2000)
  • Finist the bright falcon ; Ivan the giftless and Yelena the wise ; The magic ring ; Ivan the wonder ; No-arms ; Wool over the eyes / Andrey Platonov (1899-1951) ; (translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson)
  • Appendix. Baba Yaga : the wild witch of the East / by Sibelan Forrester.

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