Russian Folktales

Any editor of Slav folktales starts with great advantages. Russia is a country where artistic development began very late; where popular lore was conserved with little alteration owing to the immensities of the country, the primitiveness of the people, and the punctiliousness of the compilers. The principal source for Russian folktales is the great collection of Afanasev, a coeval of Rybnikov, Kir...