# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore

**Author:** Unknown
**Tags:** Folklore, Myths, Legends
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**Added:** 10.07.2026
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## Description

The stories contained in the following pages
are taken from the collections published by
Afanasief, Khudyakof, Erlenvein, and Chudinsky. The
South-Russian collections of Kulish and Rudchenko I
have been able to use but little, there being no complete
dictionary available of the dialect, or rather the
language, in which they are written. Of these works
that of Afanasief is by far the most important, extending
to nearly 3,000 pages, and containing 332 distinct
stories—of many of which several variants are given,
sometimes as many as five. Khudyakof’s collection
contains 122 skazkas—as the Russian folk-tales are
called—Erlenvein’s 41, and Chudinsky’s 31. Afanasief
has also published a separate volume, containing 33
“legends,” and he has inserted a great number of
stories of various kinds in his “Poetic views of the Old
Slavonians about Nature,” a work to which I have had
constant recourse.