Origin of the "Tale of the dead Tsarevna and of the Seven Heroes".
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Origin of the "Tale of the dead Tsarevna and of the Seven Heroes".
The story in the tale resembles the "Little Snow White" tale from the Grimm's Fairy Tales, but it is based around national Russian folklore, like Pushkin's other fairy tales in verse inspired by the childhood tales told by his nurse Arina Rodionovna at the Mikhaylovskoye village.
Researchers find a lot of symbolism in the Puskin's version of the fairy tale with roots in both Slavic mythology and Christianity.
Similar stories could be found in the Russian Fairy Tales collection by Alexander Afanasyev. tales No. 210 and 211, Great Russian Fairy Tales collection in 1861 by Ivan Khudyakov tale No. 45, Fables and Legends of the Samara Region in 1884 by Dmitry Sadovnikov tale No. 14 and Great Russian Fairy Tales of the Vyatka Governorate in 1915 by Dmitry Zelenin.
Object data
Title
Origin of the "Tale of the dead Tsarevna and of the Seven Heroes".
Artist
A. Kurkin.
Founder
"Soviet Artist", Moscow.
Date
1968.
Culture
USSR.
Classification
Postcard.
