Query about Swans/Shells

[Kristi Groberg]

At 08:29 AM 5/28/2008, you wrote:
>Dear Kristi,
>Do you have already in your bibliography the book Simvolika zhivotnyh
>v slavjanskoj narodnoj tradicii, written by A. V. Gura and published
>in 1997 by Izd-vo Indrik (Moskva). There are some pages about swans in
>folklore in general and something about women and swans.
>Kirsti Ekonen

I do have it, but thanks so much anyway.  In Vrubel's case, I don't 
think his paintings of his wife as Tsarevna lebed' relate to Leda and 
the Swan or to just swans, but I do think they relate to 
transformation. Kris Groberg 

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