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Sunday, July 7, 2013

"Russophilia" - Keeping the Public in Public Domain

Yesterday I admitted my love of Russian culture.  It's true, be it literature, folklore, music, dance, art, I'm a Russophile.  Today I want to share my list of Russian folktale anthologies and where their contents might be indexed for easy access when seeking stories for storytelling.  I also used a pair of graphics by Lucy Fitch Perkins, whose credit was accidentally omitted in the Project Gutenberg copy of Folktales from the Russian by Verra de Blumenthal.




“Russophilia”

(Transliteration from the Cyrillic may cause some spelling differences)

Afanasev, Aleksandr, translated by Norbert Guterman
Russian Fairy Tales
1945 (Public Domain according to search)
Indexed in Index to Fairy Tales Second Supplement and Index to Fairy Tales 1987-1992
Pantheon

Afanasev, Aleksandr, translated by Leonard A. Magnus
Russian Folk-tales
No date, (but indexed in original Index to Fairy Tales, so Public Domain)
NOT all are the same selections as other Afanasev volume

Almedingen, E.M.
Russian Folk and Fairy Tales
1957 (Public Domain according to search)
Indexed in Margaret Read MacDonald’s Storyteller’s Sourcebook and Index to Fairy Tales 1949-1972

Bain, R. Nisbet
Russian Fairy Tales From the Russian of Polevoi
No date (but in the original Index to Fairy Tales, so Public Domain)

Blumenthal, Verra de
Folk Tales from the Russian
1903
Indexed in original Fairy Tale index

Carey, Bonnie
Baba Yaga's Geese and Other Russian Stories
1973
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook and Index to Fairy Tales 1973-1977

Carpenter, Frances
Tales of a Russian Grandmother; Genuine Stories of Old Russia
1933 (Public Domain according to search)
Indexed in Index to Fairy Tales Supplement

Carrick, Valery
More Russian Picture Tales
1914
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook and Index to Fairy Tales Supplement

Carrick, Valery
Picture Tales from the Russian
No date but Public Domain
Indexed in original Fairy Tale index

Carrick, Valery
Still More Russian Picture Tales
1915
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook and Index to Fairy Tales Supplement

Daniels, Guy
Falcon under the Hat; Russian Merry Tales and Fairy Tales
1969
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook

Downing, Charles
Russian Tales and Legends
1956
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook and Index to Fairy Tales 1949-1972

Etchemendy, Teje
Tales of Old Russia
1964
Not indexed

Foster, Ruth
The Stone Horsemen; Tales from the Caucasus
1965
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook and Index to Fairy Tales 1949-1972
Caucasian Russia

Ginsburg, Mirra
How Wilka Went to Sea and Other Tales from West of the Urals
1975
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook
U.S.S.R./Russia

Ginsburg, Mirra
Kaha Bird; Tales from the Steppes of Central Asia
1971
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook
Urals = Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tatar, Buryatia, Tofalars, Uzbekistan, Altay, Kirghizia, Uygurs, Tadzhikstan, Tuva,  Karakalpakia, and Siberia
U.S.S.R./Russia

Ginsburg, Mirra
The Lazies; Tales of the Peoples of Russia
1973
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook

Ginsburg, Mirra
Master of the Winds and Other Tales from Siberia
1970
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook and Index to Fairy Tales 1949-1972

Ginsburg, Mirra
One Trick Too Many; Fox Stories from Russia
1973
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook and Index to Fairy Tales 1973-1977

Ginsburg, Mirra
Proud maiden, Tungak, and the Sun
1974
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook
Russian Eskimo

Ginsburg, Mirra
Three Rolls and One Doughnut
1970
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook
U.S.S.R./Russia

Ginsburg, Mirra
Twelve Clever Brothers and Other Fools
1979
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook and Index to Fairy Tales 1978-1986
U.S.S.R./Russia; Noodlehead

Gottschalk, Fruma
The Runaway Soldier and Other Tales of Old Russia
1946
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook and Index to Fairy Tales Second Supplement

Haviland, Virginia
Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Russia
1961 with earlier
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook and Index to Fairy Tales 1949-1972

Higonet-Schnopper, Janet
Tales from Atop a Russian Stove
1973
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook

Isserlis, H. and J. Auroy, translated by Peter Simmons
Emerald Tales
1958
Not indexed

Kimmel, Eric
Mishka, Pishka, & Fishka
1976
Not indexed
Galicia = Poland + Russia

Magnus, Conrad A.
Russian folk tales
1915
Indexed in original Index to Fairy Tales

Onassis, Jacqueline
The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales
1978
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook (under the title) and Index to Fairy Tales 1978-1986 (under Zvorykin)

Pushkin, Alexander (translated by James Reeves)
Golden Cockerel and Other Stories
1969
This edition is not indexed, but the title story and possibly other stories are indexed with different translations

Ransome, Arthur
Old Peter's Russian Tales
1916
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook and Index to Fairy Tales 1973-1977

Riordan, James
Tales from Central Russia
1976
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook and Index to Fairy Tales 1978-1986
All are from Afanasyev

Riordan, James
Tales from Tartary
1978 (includes sources? 1/2 Eng. & 1/2 Russian)
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook and Index to Fairy Tales 1978-1986
Tartarstan

Siberiak, Mamin
Verotchka's Tales
1922
Not indexed
Russia’s Birds, animals, and insects

Titiev, Estelle and Lila Pargment
How the Moolah Was Taught a Lesson & Other Tales from Russia
1975
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook
"USSR": Siberia, Chechen, (Caucasia), Urals, and Tuva

Tolstoy, Leo
Fables and Fairy Tales
(translated by Ann Dunnigan 1962)
Not this edition, but indexed in original Index to Fairy Tales, Index to Fairy Tales Supplement, and the Index to Fairy Tales Second Supplement
literary (Russia)

Wheeler, Post
Russian Wonder Tales
1912, 1946, and 1957
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook and original Index to Fairy Tales and the Index to Fairy Tales Second Supplement

Whitney, Thomas P.
In a Certain Kingdom; 12 Russian Fairy Tales
1972
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook and Index to Fairy Tales 1973-1977

Wyndham, Lee
Russian Tales of Fabulous Beasts and Marvels
1969
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook

Wyndham, Lee
Tales the People Tell in Russia
1970 (with Russian sources listed)
Indexed in Storyteller’s Sourcebook and Index to Fairy Tales 1949-1972

Zheleznova, Irina
Folk Tales from Russian Lands
1963
Not indexed
original title: A Mountain of Gems: Fairy-Tales of the Peoples of the Soviet Union
Russia; Ukraine; Byelorussia (White Russia); Lithuania; Estonia; Karelia; Moldavia; Azerbaijan; Armenia; Georgia; Bashkir; Kalmyk; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan; Tajikistan; Altai; Kirghiz; Kazakhstan; Yakut; Buryat; Neneta; Chukchi

Zheleznova, Irina
Ukrainian Folk Tales
1986 (U.S.S.R.)
Not indexed

Knowing me, I'm sure that, when it comes to my "Russophilia" this is not


This is part of my series, "Keeping the Public in Public Domain", but this time it is not a public domain story.  It's also outside the usual Wednesday/ Saturday schedule.  Like all of my blog, it's actually posted as "All rights reserved."  This means, since it is the result of my own research and personal musings, I reserve the right to have it reproduced.  You are welcome to enjoy it privately, but if you want to reproduce it in any way beyond your own viewing, you need to ask me for permission to use it.  Of course I have no problem with you linking to it as that promotes my work, both with search engines and in the offline community. 

2 comments:

Mary grace Ketner said...

Wow! Thanks for all this, lois!

Lois Sprengnether Keel said...

My pleasure, as you can probably guess. I'm also thinking strongly about continuing this as I draw my summer sabbatical to a close. I've had so many positive comments here and in other places, including Facebook and email, that it looks like it is doing what I wanted: Keeping the Public in Public Domain!