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[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

I have another question/request. My teacher told me to go out and buy Russian children's books such as fairy tales and whatnot. So far, I know about Baba Yaga, Sadok, Firebird, the couple who made a girl out of snow, and a witch who eats people. So my question, what are other super-well-known Russian tales and does anyone know a website where I can find ISBN numbers to Russian books in Russian? I tried Amazon, but the collections were either in English or not to my liking. Or even better (if you live in South Florida), are there any Russian bookstores around here?

Comments

[brain-death.livejournal.com]

Wow. Witch who eats people?! I really don't know how is it... Strange? What is her name?
Children books? I think "Вредные Советы" Григория Остера will fit.

[diamand.livejournal.com]

Zmei Gorinitch whery like eats people

[gvadelupa.livejournal.com]

Baba-Yaga. She told to Ivanushka: "Я тебя вымою, выпарю, в печь посажу, зажарю и съем, сама на твоих костях покатаюся" (citing from memory).

[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

I don't know in general. But I have a big book of russian fairy tales, with ISBN 5-7771-0002-3. called 'russkie volshebnie skazki' (apologies for transliteration). Not sure if that helps at all.

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Is that "Русские волшебные сказки" by any chance purple? Or some sort of red color? Or is it the one shown here (http://www.kniga.com/books/product.asp?dept%5Fid=1021&sku=B9725)? If you can find where it is on the Internet, I'll be greatful (?). And I also want to know if it does contain some of the more popular stories i.e. Baba Yaga and the Firebird one. Thanks!

[polygonia.livejournal.com]

Doesn't Baba Yaga eat children on some occasions?

[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

also, there's a russian-language bookshop (presumably german-based) at < a href="http://www.dom-knigi.de/">http://www.dom-knigi.de/. Never used it, so no idea if it's reliable. But at least it lists ISBN numbers, which might help you ordering from elsewhere.

[klarissa.livejournal.com]

Some super-well-known Russian tales:
Колобок
Курочка Ряба
Теремок
Волк и лиса
Волк и семеро козлят
Маша и медведи
Сестрица Алёнушка и братец Иванушка
Гуси-лебеди
Василиса-премудрая
12 месяцев

[yegor.livejournal.com]

Fine list definitely. I'd recommend those tales too.

Websites

[fox-c.livejournal.com]

I usually order my Russian books online:
wwww.bestrussianbooks.com
www.kniga.ru (their website seems to be down though)

[diana-greenwood.livejournal.com]

Сказки Пушкина "Лукоморье", "Руслан и Людмила"...

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

"У Лукоморья дуб зеленый..." is a poem (стихотворение), not a fairy tale, and "Руслан и Людмила" is not a fairy tale either, it's a large poem (поэма). Fairy tales by Pushkin are "Сказка о царе Салтане", "Сказка о попе и работнике его Балде" etc.

[yegor.livejournal.com]

Actually "У Лукоморья" is not a single poem at all, it is a part of "Руслан и Людмила" (its first chapter). We've just been taught in school that it is a single poem.

[diana-greenwood.livejournal.com]

А вот это я действительно сплоховала :) Фу, какая некультурная!

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

I would love to remind thet the working language of this community is English. It's OK to use examples in Russian, but you are expected to provide a comprehensive English translation. This communtiy is for non-native speakers who study Russian, and, very likely, are on an early stage of their study.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Right. Kind of an ouverture :) You're right, thank you. И на старуху бывает проруха, а на волк_оффа - склероз.

[diana-greenwood.livejournal.com]

Ну и пусть поэма, но ведь сказка же!

[klarissa.livejournal.com]

"Золотая рыбка" is a very good fairy tale by Pushkin. It is also one of the super-well-known tales :)

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

I would love to remind that we are expected to speak English here. Anyway, "Руслан и Людмила" is not exactly a fairy tale, but Pushkin's early attempt to make an epic poem out of Russian folklore tales images and ideas -- though very modern (well, up-to-date moren -- don't forget it's cca 1820) in terms of plot, and characters, and "l'aire". He wrote excellent fairy tales later on, though (1830-1832) - "Сказка о рыбаке и рыбке", "Сказка о попе и о работнике его Балде", "Сказка о мертвой царевне и о семи богатырях" and "Сказка о золотом петушке".

corrections

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

up-to-date modern

[nemica.livejournal.com]

There's very scary fairy tale Терёшечка, where Baba Yaga and her daughter kidnapped and tried to eat little boy Ivanushka but Ivanushka pushed Baba Yaga's daugher to the oven and then climbed to a pine. And Baba Yaga went to a smith to get herself iron tooth to gnaw the pine down.

No panic! Ivanushka was saved by wild gooses, like Gnadalf from Orthanc tower. :)

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

With all due respect, it was an eagle who saved Mithrandir, not geese :)

[nemica.livejournal.com]

That's little not too important detail. :))) But the allusion is obvious.

[kart.livejournal.com]

How about modern Russian childrens' stories, poetry, etc? K.I. Chukovskiy wrote some good stuff, for instance.


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