Died 1871-09-23.
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Alexander Afanasyev
Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer, best known for publishing nearly 600 East Slavic and Russian fairy and folk tales, one of the largest collections of folklore in the world. This collection was not restricted to Great Russia, but included folk tales from what are now Ukraine and Belarus as well. The first edition of his collection was published in eight volum…
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culture · Russian folklorist · anthropologist · linguist · journalist · children's writer · collector of fairy tales · literary critic · folklorist · historian · fairy tale scholar · ethnologist · also Alexander Afanasyev, Aleksandr Afanasyev, A. N. Afanasief, Alexander Afanasief, Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev, Afanasyev
Born 11 July 1826 · Died 23 September 1871 · Q325004
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1870· 1 entry
His Russian Children's Fairy Tales (Russian: Русские детские сказки) were published
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1862· 1 entry
The authorities arrested the Narodnik Nikolay Chernyshevsky, while other people associated with Herzen, including Afanasyev, came under suspicion
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1860· 1 entry
A scandal was provoked following the publication of the "Русские народные легенды" ("Russian Folk Legends", 1860), a collection of folk tales from all over the country based on the lives of Jesus and Christian saints
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1855· 1 entry
Headed the state commission responsible for the publication of legislative, historical, and literary works
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1849· 1 entry
Konstantin Kavelin helped him to get a place at the Moscow Main Archive Directorate under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire, and here Afanasyev worked for the next 13 years
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1837· 1 entry
Was sent to the Voronezh male gymnasium, and in 1844 he entered the Law Faculty of the University of Moscow, which he finished in 1848
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1826· 1 entry
Born 1826-07-11.
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