June 23, 2001

Book Picks - Folklore

An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics
James Osler Bailey, Tatyana Avanova (Editor)

Paperback, 1st ed., 464pp.
Sharpe, M.e., Inc.
May 1999

Encyclopedia of Russian
and Slavic Myth and Legend
Mike Dixon-Kennedy

Hardcover, 392pp.
A B C-CLIO, Inc.
December 1998

Russian Gypsy Tales
James Riordan (Translator)
A. Gessler (Compiler)

Paperback, 160pp.
Interlink Publishing Group, Inc.
November 1992

Russian Fairy Tales
Alexander Nikolayevi Afanasyev

Paperback, 661pp.
Pantheon Books
June 1976

Russian Folk Belief
Linda J. Ivanits Sophie Schiller (Illustrator)
Foreword by Felix J. Oinas

Paperback, 257pp.
Sharpe, M.e., Inc.
June 1992

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Notable events on this day in Russian history

1989: Mikhail Gorbachev became the first Soviet leader to visit the Vatican and meet the Pope. This meeting ended 72 years of Kremlin atheist ideology.

1962: Nikita Khrushchev blasted art exhibition at Moscow Manezh

1945: Gennady Khazanov, comic actor, born

1943: First Suvorov Military Schools opened.

1934: Sergei Kirov, Leningrad Party Leader, assassinated, setting off purges

1900: First issue of Iskra published.

1873: Valery Bryusov, writer, born.

1792: Nikolai Lobachevsky, mathematician, born (died 1856)

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