The Girl as Soldier (German: Das Mädchen als Soldat) is a Russian folktale collected by Russian folklorist Ivan Khudyakov [ru], originally titled "Опять...

Girl as Soldier (Russian folktale) The tale type is known in the Finnish Folktale Catalogue as Nainen kuninkaan vävynä ("The Girl as the King's Son-in-Law")...

an Emperor" (from a Chinese folktale), "The Crane Wife" (from a Japanese folktale) and "The Witch Baby" (from a Russian fairytale), this last being adapted...

serving a Witch"), of the East Slavic Folktale Classification (Russian: СУС, romanized: SUS). According to scholar Andreas John and Russian folklorist Lev Barag [ru]...

that the tale type does appear in Iberian peninsula, although it seems to be "infrequent". In the East Slavic Folktale Classification (Russian: СУС,...

"The Spinning-Woman by the Spring" (also known as "The Kind and the Unkind Girls"). The fairy tale was later adapted as a theater play by a Russian writer...

The Magic Swan Geese (Russian: Гуси-лебеди, romanized: Gusi-lebedi) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki...

to the East Slavic type SUS 532, Russian: Незнайка, romanized: Neznaika, lit. 'I Don't Know', of the East Slavic Folktale Classification (Russian: СУС...

witch (Russian: ведьма, ved'ma or панночка, pannochka) who attempts to ride her would-be husband is echoed in Ukrainian (or Russian) folktale. The Malorussian...

Green-Vanka (Russian: Ванька-зеленый, romanized: Vanka-zelenyn) is a Russian fairy tale (skazka), first collected in the 1930s and published in 1998....

Russian culture (Russian: Культура России, romanized: Kul'tura Rossii, IPA: [kʊlʲˈturə rɐˈsʲiɪ]) has been formed by the nation's history, its geographical...

East Slavic Folktale Classification (Russian: СУС, romanized: SUS), as tale type SUS 707, "Чудесные дети" ("The Miraculous Children"). The East Slavic...

bride. The queen pays a thousand pieces as her dowry, and the soldiers escort the girl to the palace. The girl goes to her mother's grave and cries her...

America The Girl as Soldier, Russian tales about a girl in male disguise Literary women warriors include "Gordafarid" (Persian: گردآفريد) in the ancient...

Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. The movie opens with a panoramic...

enchanted spouses in the Russian tale corpus. Similarly, Russian scholar Vladimir Propp, in his work The Russian Folktale, stated that the tale was "quite...

Krishan as Alibaba and Tamanna as Marjinaa. Adventures of Ali-Baba and the Forty Thieves is a 1980 Indian-Soviet film based on the folktale, directed...

"Jack and His Comrades", and the English "How Jack went to seek his fortune". Variants also appears in American folktale collections, and in Scottish...

recognizes her. The tale is classified in the East Slavic Folktale Classification (Russian: СУС, romanized: SUS) as type SUS 440, Russian: Муж-рак, romanized: Muzh-rak...

legend, or a folktale. In The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, a poetic legend about a young captive turned into a mankurt serves as a tragic allegory...

Fruit". The Georgian Folktale Index registers a similar tale, but with its own indexing: -407*, "The Girl of Reed". In the Georgian type, the hero finds...

1887. pp. 231-246. Haney, Jack V. The Complete Russian Folktale: An introduction to the Russian folktale. Russian Wondertales: 1. Tales of Heroes and...

more common in the East Slavic area (Russia, Ukraine and Belarus). Similarly, according to the East Slavic Folktale Classification (Russian: СУС, romanized: SUS)...

folkloristics as a discipline in the 19th century, scholars and folktale collectors compared many versions of "The Animal as Bridegroom" to the tale of Cupid...

Persian folktales, sourced the story from Markazi province. A king has many daughters, but only one son, Prince Ebrahim, whom he dotes on, to the girls' jealousy...

Russian folktales". On the other hand, slavicist Karel Horálek cited that a 1959 Russian edition of Afanasyev's Russian Fairy Tales indicated that the tale...

Koshchei (Russian: Коще́й, romanized: Koshchey, IPA: [kɐˈɕːej]), also Kashchei (Russian: Каще́й, romanized: Kashchey, IPA: [kɐˈɕːej]) often given the epithet...

list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, Russian Tsardom, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Kievan Rus'...

222-226 (Russian translation), 511 (notes and classification). Johns, Andreas (2010). Baba Yaga: The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folktale. New...

story is the Northern German folktale of The Three Gifts. One day three wealthy students find a poor weaver and give him one hundred dollars. The weaver...