The folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev represent the largest single
collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the
world. Widely regarded as the Russian Grimm, Afanas'ev collected
folktales from throughout the Russian Empire in what are now
regarded as the three East Slavic languages, Byelorusian, Russian,
and Ukrainian. The result of his own collecting, the collecting of
friends and correspondents, and in a few cases his publishing of
works from earlier and forgotten collections is truly phenomenal.
In his lifetime, Afanas'ev published more than 575 tales in his
most popular and best known work, "Narodnye russkie skazki." In
addition to this basic collection he prepared a volume of Russian
legends, many on religious themes, an anthology of mildly obscene
tales, and voluminous writings on Slavic folk life and Slavic
mythology. His works were subject to the strict censorship of
ecclesiastical and state authorities that lasted until the demise
of the Soviet Union at the end of the twentieth century.
Overwhelmingly, his particular emendations were of a stylistic
nature, while those of the censors mostly concerned content. The
censored tales are generally not included.
Up to now, there has been no complete English-language version
of the Russian folktales of Afanas'ev. This translation is based on
L. G. Barag and N. V. Novikov's edition (Moscow: Nauka, 1984-1986),
widely regarded as the authoritative edition. The present edition
includes commentaries to each tale as well as its international
classification number.
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