distinctive qualities of Russian fairytales (as reflected in the Afanas'ev collection)

Essay from the year 2001 in the subject Russian / Slavic Languages, grade: 75 (A), University of Canterbury (School of European Culture and Languages), course: Seminar, language: English, abstract: Most of the fairy tales that we find in the Afanas'ev collection are both strange and familiar at the same time. They are familiar, because many of the Russian fairy tales are in fact renderings of stor...