{"id":2366,"date":"2011-05-05T20:17:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T01:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2021-05-30T21:50:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T01:50:37","slug":"folk-tales-from-the-russian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2366","title":{"rendered":"Folk Tales from the Russian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Folk Tales from the Russian<\/a><\/em> (1903) Verra Xenophontovna Kalamatiano de Blumenthal<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I love folk tales. I have two shelves of them, and discovered when I got my Kindle there are lots of collections available out there FOR FREE.<\/p>\n

Free, of course, means the books are from the public domain, and were scanned and formatted by volunteers, but still. Free!<\/p>\n

Now, I am extremely fond of Aleksandr Afanasev’s Russian Fairy Tales<\/em> in the Pantheon series, so I wasn’t expecting much from this collection, yet it was surprisingly good.<\/p>\n

If you are a reader of folktales, then you are already familiar with the common threads that run through so many of these tales, and if you’ve read a collection of Russian folk tales, than many of these will be familiar to you. However, each teller would tell his tale in a slightly different manner, so every collection is unique in some aspects. But even better, there are a handful of notes throughout the story, on some of the terms used in the book.<\/p>\n

It’s nice to be reading and just click to jump to a description and learn a little more. For example:<\/p>\n

2. Boyar<\/em> was the world formerly used to mean a Russian nobelman; so a boyar-house<\/em> is a lord’s house; boyarishnia<\/em>, a lord’s daughter. The terem<\/em> was that part of the boyar-house in which the women’s rooms were situated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Isn’t that lovely? Or how about the following?<\/p>\n

8. Moujik, a peasant; his duties are those of a farm laborer, yet this phrase would not be a fair translation. This word, which is rendered “tiller of the soil” has no exact equivalent in English.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are ten stories in this collection: The Tsarevna Frog, Seven Simeons, The Language of the Birds, Ivanoushka the Simpleton, Woe Bogotir, Baba Yaga, Cimian the Peasant, The Golden Mountain, Father Frost.<\/p>\n

Some of them might sound familiar from the titles, others have a familiar ring once you start reading them. But they are lovely translations and it’s always fun to see these tales from a different perspective.
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong>
\nPublic Domain ebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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