THE ATHENAEUMRussian Folk-TalesAleksandr Afanasyev, translated by Leonard Magnus
Fairy Tale
Russian Folk-Tales
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textAleksandr Afanasyev published some six hundred Russian folk tales between 1855 and 1863, the largest collection of its kind, much of it from the archive of the Russian Geographical Society. Deep in his forests lives Baba Yaga, in a hut that turns on hen’s legs. This selection was put into English by Leonard Magnus.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 6 hr 55 min
- Where to find it
- The Deep Wood
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #62509. In the public domain in the United States.