September 20, 2008

Russian Folklore

by The Editors

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

1996: Chechen rebels released 42 hostages seized in a raid in southern Russia after a two-week ordeal in which dozens of separatist fighters and many Russian soldiers were killed.

1978: Soviet satellite, Cosmos 954, used for ocean surveillance, disintegrated over the remote North-West territories of Canada.

1949: Yuri Bashmet, viola-player, born

1929: Stalin labeled Trotsky faction "anti-state"

1901: Mikhail Romm, film director, born (died 1971)

1873: Dmitry Ushakov, linguist, born

1872: Konstantin Bogayevsky, Landscape painter, born

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