Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov (Penguin Classics) (61 page)

Haney, Jack,
An Introduction to the Russian Folktale
(M. E. Sharpe, 1999). This introduction to
The Complete Russian Folktale
, published on its own as a small paperback, is also essential reading.

Hilton, Alison,
Russian Folk Art
(Indiana University Press, 1995)

Hubbs, Joanna,
Mother Russia: The Feminine Myth in Russian Culture
(Indiana University Press, 1993)

Ivanits, Linda,
Russian Folk Belief
(M. E. Sharpe, 1992)

Johns, Andreas,
Baba Yaga: The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folktale
(Peter Lang, 2004)

Kononenko, Natalie,
Slavic Folklore: A Handbook
(Greenwood Press, 2007)

Lüthi, Max,
The European Folktale: Form and Nature
(Indiana University Press, 1986)

Propp, Vladimir,
Morphology of the Folktale
(University of Texas Press, 1968);
The Russian Folktale
, tr. Sibelan Forrester (Wayne State University Press, 2012);
Theory and History of Folklore
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984)

Sinyavsky, Andrei,
Ivan the Fool: Russian Folk Belief
, tr. Joanne Turnbull (Glas, 2007)

Tatar, Maria,
The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
(Norton, 2003)

von Franz, Marie-Louise,
Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
(Shambhala Publications, 1995)

Warner, Elizabeth,
Russian Myths
(British Museum Press, 2002)

Warner, Marina,
From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
(Vintage,
1995)

Zipes, Jack,
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
(Oxford: OUP, 2000)

Afanasyev, A. N.,
Narodnye russkie skazki
(Moscow: Al’fa Kniga, 2008);
Narodnye russkie legendy
(Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1990)

Balashov, D. M.,
Skazki Terskogo berega Belogo morya
(Leningrad: Nauka, 1970)

Bardin, A. V.,
Fol’klor Chkalovskoy oblasti
(Chkalov, 1940)

Karnaukhova, I. V.,
Skazki i predaniya severnogo kraya
(Moscow: OGI, 2009)

Khudyakov, I. A.,
Velikorusskie skazki
(St Petersburg: Tropa troianova, 2001)

Onchukov, N. E.,
Severnye skazki
(St Petersburg: Mir, 2008);
Zavetnye skazki
(Moscow: Ladomir, 1996)

Ozarovskaya, O. E.,
Pyatirechiye
(St Petersburg: Tropa troianova, 2000)

Pomerantseva, E. V.,
Russkie narodnye skazki
(Moscow: 1957)

Tumilevich, F. V.,
Skazki i predaniya kazakov-nekrasovtsev
(Rostov on Don: 1958)

Zelenin, D. K.,
Velikorusskiye skazki Permskoy gubernii
(St Petersburg: Russian Academy of Sciences, 1997);
Velikorusskiye skazki Vyatskoy gubernii
(St Petersburg: Tropa troianova, 2002)

Azadovsky, Mark,
Russkaya skazka: Izbrannye mastera
(Leningrad: Akademiya, 1932)

Korepova, K. E.,
Russkaya volshebnaya skazka
(Moscow: Vysshaya shkola, 1992)

Kruglov, Yu. G.,
Russkie narodnye skazki
(
Biblioteka russkogo fol’klora
) (Moscow: Sovietskaya Rossiya, 1988)

Bazhov,
Pavel:
Malakhitovaya shkatul’ka
. Available in, literally, hundreds of editions. The collection
Ural’skie skazy i byli
(Moscow: Novy klyuch, 2009) contains valuable extracts from letters and memoirs

Platonov, Andrey:
Volshebnoye kol’tso
has been republished many times, but many editions are incomplete. All Platonov’s
skazki
and other children’s stories are included in
Sukhoy khleb
(vol. 6 of the
Sobraniye
published by
Vremya
, 2009–11)

Pushkin, Aleksandr: There are countless editions of his
Skazki.
Both for its illustrations (variations on Pushkin’s own drawings) and for the accompanying article, I recommend Pushkin,
Skazki
, ed. V. S. Nepomnyashchy (Moscow: Planeta, 2008)

Teffi,
Sobranie sochinenii v pyati tomakh
(Moscow: Terra, 2008)

Malakhovskaya, Natalya,
Nasledie Baby Yagi
(St Petersburg: 2007)

Mikheyev, Mikhail,
V mir Platonova cherez ego yazyk
(Moscow: Izdatel’stvo Moskovskogo universiteta, 2003)

Mineyev, V. N., ‘O skazkakh Andreya Platonova’, in
Russkaya rech’
,
no. 3 (Moscow, 2007), pp. 113–17; ‘Skazka A. P. Platonova Ivan-Chudo’ (unpublished); ‘ “Volshebnoe kol’tso” A. Platonova: Literaturnaya skazka ili kontaminatsiya’, in
Znanie. Ponimanie. Umenie
, no. 2 (Moscow: 2007), pp. 112–17

Propp, V. Ya.,
Fol’klor i deistvitel’nost’
(Leningrad: 1976)

Sokolov, Yury,
Russky fol’klor
(Moscow: Uchpedgiz, 1938)

Dubravka Ugrešić,
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
, tr. Ellen Elias-Bursac´, Celia Hawkesworth and Mark Thompson (Canongate Books, 2010)

Much of what passes for recordings or performances of Russian folk song is saccharine. The ensemble
Polynushka
, however, is superb. Their research is scrupulous, the singers are true musicians and their performances are full of life. See:
www.proutskova.de
and
www.polynushka.de

Earlier versions of some of these translations were included in: Robert Chandler,
The Magic Ring
(Faber & Faber, 1979); Ivan Bilibin and Robert Chandler,
Russian Folk Tales
(Shambhala, 1980);
The Portable Platonov
(Glas, 1999);
The Redstone Diary 2010
(The Redstone Press, 2009). ‘A Tale of a Fisherman and a Fish’ was first published in
Cardinal Points
, nos. 12–13 (New York: Stosvet Press, 2011). ’A Tale about a Priest and his Servant Balda’ was first published in
The Long Poem Magazine
(London, 2012). A longer version of the appendix by Sibelan Forrester serves as an introduction to a forthcoming collection of tales about Baba Yaga, together with a selection of the finest nineteenth- and twentieth-century illustrations: Sibelan Forrester, Helena Goscilo and Martin Skoro,
Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Folklore
(University Press of Mississippi).

Except for the two Khudyakov tales, translated by Sibelan Forrester, and the four Bazhov tales, translated by Anna Gunin, all these translations are by myself and my wife. I am, however, a firm believer in the value of collaboration and I thank all the following for their help:

Kristin Bidoshi, Sergei Bunaev, Inna Caron, Peter Carson, Olive Classe, Jane Costlow, Nina Demurova, Boris Dralyuk, Edward Dumanis, Caryl Emerson, Peter France, Rose France, Yelena Francis, Melissa Frazier, Konstantin Goloviznin, Gasan Gusejnov, Edythe Haber, Jack Haney, Jeffrey D. Holdeman, Katia Hryharuk, Alvard Jivanyan, Masha Karp, Valeria Kolosova, Natalie Kononenko, Mark Leiderman, Sophie Lubensky, Bonnie Marshall, Irina Mashinski, Nancy Mattson, Olga Meerson, Vladimir Mineyev, Yelena Minyonok, Anna Muza, Elena Ostrovskaya, Natasha Perova, Anna Pilkington, Donald Rayfield, Margo Rosen, Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, Will
Ryan, Andreas Schonle, Alexandra Smith, Lydia Strong, Faith Wigzell, Antony Wood, Aleksey Yudin, Olga Zaslavsky. I also thank my students at Queen Mary, University of London, and members of the Pushkin Club (London) and the SEELANGS email group.

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This collection first published in Penguin Classics 2012

Copyright for stories by Bazhov © The Bazhov estate, 2012
Copyright for stories by Platonov © The Platonov estate, 2012
Copyright for stories by Teffi © Mme Szyòlowski, 2012
Appendix and translation of stories by Khudyakov © Sibelan Forrester, 2012
Translation of stories by Bazhov © Anna Gunin, 2012
Translation of all other stories and editorial material © Robert Chandler, 2012

The Acknowledgements (
pp. 439
–
40
) constitute an extension of this copyright page

Cover: detail of an illustration by Natalia Goncharova from
Le Conte de Tsar Saltan
by Alexander Pushkin, published by Éditions de la Sirène, Paris, 1921 (Photograph courtesy of Sotheby’s Picture Library) © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2012

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ISBN: 978-0-14-139254-7