Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by William Ralston Shedden-Ralston, book cover
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  1. 01 - Chapter 1 - Introductory - Part 1

    18:45

  2. 02 - Chapter 1 - Introductory - Part 2 - The Fiend

    15:37

  3. 03 - Chapter 1 - Introductory - Part 3 - The Dead Mother - The Dead Witch - The Treasure

    15:01

  4. 04 - Chapter 1 - Introductory - Part 4 - The Cross-Surety - The Awful Drunkard

    16:44

  5. 05 - Chapter 1 - Introductory - Part 5 - The Bad Wife - The Golovikha - The Three Copecks

    19:13

  6. 06 - Chapter 1 - Introductory - Part 6 - The Miser - The Fool and the Birch-Tree

    15:27

  7. 07 - Chapter 1 - Introductory - Part 7 - The Mizgir - The Smith and the Demon

    12:55

  8. 08 - Chapter 2 - Mythological - Part 1 - Ivan Popyalof

    16:34

  9. 09 - Chapter 2 - Mythological - Part 2 - The Norka

    19:38

  10. 10 - Chapter 2 - Mythological - Part 3 - Marya Morevna

    28:52

  11. 11 - Chapter 2 - Mythological - Part 4 - Koshchei the Deathless

    20:07

  12. 12 - Chapter 2 - Mythological - Part 5 - The Water Snake

    17:58

  13. 13 - Chapter 2 - Mythological - Part 6 - The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise

    25:12

  14. 14 - Chapter 2 - Mythological - Part 7 - The Baba Yaga

    20:10

  15. 15 - Chapter 2 - Mythological - Part 8 - Vasilissa the Fair

    28:48

  16. 16 - Chapter 2 - Mythological - Part 9 - The Witch

    16:38

  17. 17 - Chapter 2 - Mythological - Part 10 - The Witch and the Sun’s Sister

    16:04

  18. 18 - Chapter 3 - Mythological - Part 1 - One-Eyed Likho

    13:04

  19. 19 - Chapter 3 - Mythological - Part 2 - Woe

    23:37

  20. 20 - Chapter 3 - Mythological - Part 3 - Friday - Wednesday - The Léshy

    16:37

  21. 21 - Chapter 3 - Mythological - Part 4 - Sozh and Dnieper - The Metamprphosis of the Dnieper, the Volga, and the Dvina

    12:59

  22. 22 - Chapter 3 - Mythological - Part 5 - Frost

    26:54

  23. 23 - Chapter 4 - Magic and Witchcraft - Part 1 - The Blind Man and the Cripple

    24:56

  24. 24 - Chapter 4 - Magic and Witchcraft - Part 2 - The Blind Man and the Cripple (continued)

    19:33

  25. 25 - Chapter 4 - Magic and Witchcraft - Part 3 - Princess Helena the Fair

    14:14

  26. 26 - Chapter 4 - Magic and Witchcraft - Part 4 - Emilian the Fool - The Witch Girl - The Headless Princess

    19:08

  27. 27 - Chapter 4 - Magic and Witchcraft - Part 5 - The Soldier's Midnight Watch

    17:30

  28. 28 - Chapter 4 - Magic and Witchcraft - Part 6 - The Warlock

    12:21

  29. 29 - Chapter 5 - Ghost Stories - Part 1 - The Fox-Physician

    15:44

  30. 30 - Chapter 5 - Ghost Stories - Part 2 - The Fiddler in Hell - The Ride on the Gravestone - The Two Friends

    14:25

  31. 31 - Chapter 5 - Ghost Stories - Part 3 - The Shroud - The Coffin-Lid - The Two Corpses - The Dog and the Corpse - The Soldier and the Vampire

    31:53

  32. 32 - Chapter 6 - Legends - About Saints - Part 1

    20:44

  33. 33 - Chapter 6 - Legends - About Saints - Part 2 - Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas

    13:38

  34. 34 - Chapter 6 - Legends - About Saints - Part 3 - The Priest with the Greedy Eyes

    22:45

  35. 35 - Chapter 6 - Legends - About Demons - Part 1

    15:00

  36. 36 - Chapter 6 - Legends - About Demons - Part 2 - The Hasty Word

    23:53

Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore (1873) is a public domain work.

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Six thematic chapters of Russian peasant narrative, assembled by a British Museum cataloguer who taught himself the language so the institution's Russian holdings could be catalogued. Ralston worked from the collections of Afanasief, Khudyakof, Erlenvein and Chudinsky, and argued in his preface that an untouched photograph of a storyteller is worth more than an ideal portrait, so the translations stay close to the spoken originals. The arrangement moves from the principal incarnations of evil (the Snake, Norka, Koshchei the Deathless, the Water King, Baba Yaga) to lesser impersonations such as One-Eyed Likho, Woe, Frost and the forest spirit Leshy, then to magic and witchcraft, then to Slavonic beliefs about the returning dead, and closes with legends of saints and demons. Ralston frames each group with commentary tying the tales to myths elsewhere in Europe.

About the author

William Ralston Shedden-Ralston

William Ralston Shedden-Ralston (1828-1889) was born in London and joined the printed books department of the British Museum in 1853, where he learned Russian so the institution's Russian holdings could be catalogued.

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Pages
351
Language
English
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