Tales of the strength and wisdom of Russian women
Tales of the strength and wisdom of Russian women
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It seems that all the famous heroes in Russian fairy tales are men. But this is not so: the traditions of the Russian people keep many legends about strong warriors, about wise virgins, in the heroic deeds of their not inferior to the famous heroes, and sometimes defeated them - if not by force, then by sharp mind and spiritual qualities. And when the enemy came to the Russian land, they could give him a worthy rebuff.
Strong-powered Vasilisa Mikulishna and her sister Nastasya, cunning Marya Morevna (she is also Blue-eyed), who has great sorcery power and captured Koschei himself, Avdotya-Ryazanchka, who drove Bakhmet Turkish with his countless hordes, the heroic girl Dunya, who fought with enemies near the walls of Novgorod ... Many of them were strong, beautiful and wise heroines, but stories about them were rarely printed.
In our book, for the first time, we gathered together nineteen fairy tales about strong and wise women in the retellings of D. N. Sadovnikov, A. A. Fedorov-Davydov, O. I. Rogovoi, A. N. Afanasyev and other wonderful storytellers, and gatherers who glorified the skill, ingenuity and boundless bravery of Russian women warriors.
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Strong-powered Vasilisa Mikulishna and her sister Nastasya, cunning Marya Morevna (she is also Blue-eyed), who has great sorcery power and captured Koschei himself, Avdotya-Ryazanchka, who drove Bakhmet Turkish with his countless hordes, the heroic girl Dunya, who fought with enemies near the walls of Novgorod ... Many of them were strong, beautiful and wise heroines, but stories about them were rarely printed.
In our book, for the first time, we gathered together nineteen fairy tales about strong and wise women in the retellings of D. N. Sadovnikov, A. A. Fedorov-Davydov, O. I. Rogovoi, A. N. Afanasyev and other wonderful storytellers, and gatherers who glorified the skill, ingenuity and boundless bravery of Russian women warriors.
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