Russian Fairy Tales (Classic Reprint)

Russian Skazld or Mdrchen was first made generally known to the British Public some twenty years ago by Mr. W. R. S. Ralston in his Russian Folk Tales. That excellent and most engrossing volume was, primarily, a treatise on Slavonic Folk-L ore, illustrated with admirable skill and judgment, by stories, mainly selected from the vast collection of A fanasiev, who did for the Russian what Asbjornsen has done for the Norwegian Folk Tale. A year after the appearance of Mr. Ralston sbook, the eminent Russian historian and archaeologist, Peter Nikolaevich Polevoi (well known, too, as an able and ardent Shaksperian scholar), selected from the inexhaustible stores of A fanasiev some three dozen of the Skazki most suitable for children, and worked them up into a fairy tale book which was published at St. Petersburg in 1874, under the title of Narodnuiya Russkiya Skazld (P opular Russian Marchen). To manipulate these quaintly vigorous old-world stories for nursery purposes was, as may, well be imagined, no easy task, but, on the whole, M.
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