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The Swinging Light

Keep The Light On

A. N. Afanasʹev

Author

A. N. Afanasʹev

23 July [O.S. 11 July] 1826 – 5 October [O.S. 23 September] 1871

Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev (Russian: Александр Николаевич Афанасьев) was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer who published nearly 600 Russian fairy and folk tales, one of the largest collections of folklore in the world. The first edition of his collection was published in eight volumes from 1855 to 1867, earning him the reputation as being the Russian counterpart to the Brothers Grimm.

Bibliography

Books

30 books

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1965

Harve Zemach, Margot Zemach, A. N. Afanasʹev

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1992

Jane Langton, A. N. Afanasʹev

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1965

A. N. Afanasʹev

Russkie skazki cover

Russkie skazki

1987

A. N. Afanasʹev, T. Sokolʹskai͡a, G. M. Sokolʹskiĭ