Tale
Народні південноруські казки
Not translated into English
Ivan Rudchenko · 1869
Synopsis
Tales recorded in Ukraine, where animals take first place: the poor wolf, the tailor and the wolf, the old dog Sirko, the vixen and the hen, the bear, the wolf, the vixen and the hare. The second volume gives the lost mitten into which the animals slip one after another, the runaway bun, the cat and the rooster, the vixen and the wolf, the straw bull-calf.
Context
The two volumes appeared in Kiev, from the printer E. Fedorov, and bring together more than a hundred and thirty tales, part of them collected by Panas, the collector's younger brother. The second volume announced a third as “in preparation”, which the Ems Ukase of 1876 prevented from appearing; the rest of the collected tales, planned for at least five books, is still in manuscript at the library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Saint Petersburg. The first volume has been digitised by the Russian State Library.
Who it is for
Two volumes of short tales, to be read in any order, in nineteenth-century Ukrainian; two tales appeared in French in Louis Léger's collection of Slavic tales.
Prizes and reception
These works opened the publication of Ukrainian folklore by genre and by theme; the popular editions of 1917 and 1918 drew on the second volume.
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