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Title: Folk Tales from Russia (Library of Folklore) by Donald A. MacKenzie ISBN: 0-7818-0696-8 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Summary: The emphasis here is on FOLK tales.
Comment: In general these folk tales are not the fairy tales we expect from Russia, but are tales of the folk who peopled Russia and the tsars who ruled the country. Nearest to a fairy tale is "The Lady of Moscow" which includes Princess Peerless, a dragon, a Golden Knight, and a Yaga. The story of Mikhail the Kringel Seller is a sentimental tale which not only draws a vivid picture of the vendors in a market but also tells us a tender tale of a boy taken young from his aristocratic parents and treated like a slave by Red Koko. Many of the rest of the stories draw from episodes in the lives of several of the tsars--from a small peasant (Ivan) being in the right place at the right time to be named Tsar, to an episode in the life of Tsar Ivan in 1581 when the Scottish people in Moscow swore to fight for Ivan in return for his allowing them to live in peace and build their own church. Wolves have figured in many Russian stories: here we have the tale of how one Russian man fought off the wolves in order to assure that a young girl can join her Scottish mother in crossing the frontier into Poland.
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