Russian skazki

[William Ryan]

Simon, thanks for the puff, but actually it won't help Robert all, 
except perhaps to draw his attention to William Ralston, one of the 
founders of the Folklore Society, a pioneer British Russianist and 
arguably the first scholar of Russian folktales outside Russia, a friend 
of Afanas'ev and Turgenev, and the first to publish translations of 
Russian tales (see excellent article by Patrick Waddington in the Oxford 
Dictionary of National Biography, and more recently my presidential 
address to the Folklore Society, 'W.R.S. Ralston and the Russian 
Folktale', Folklore, 120, 2, 2009).

Will


On 11/08/2010 17:15, Simon Beattie wrote:
> Do you know William Ryan's Panizzi Lectures for 2005, published as "Russian
> Magic at the British Library: books, manuscripts, scholars and travellers"?
> Don't know if that may help at all.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic&  East European Languages and Literatures list
> [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Chandler
> Sent: 11 August 2010 17:09
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian skazki
>
> Dear Muireann,
>
> I don't know anything about him at all, but I am certainly curious.  So yes,
> I'll be very grateful for some sources!
>
> All the best,
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>
>    
>> Dear Robert,
>>
>> Are you including any stories about Iakov Brius' (Jacob Bruce), the
>> real-life general/alchemist/astronomer, who enjoyed a folkloric afterlife
>> as all of the above and as a black magician as well? When I was
>>      
> researching
>    
>> him earlier this year, I came across some startlingly vivid folk tales
>> about Brius' infamous magical exploits. Apparently ordinary people in
>> Moscow and the peasants on Brius' estate continued to tell tall tales
>>      
> about
>    
>> him well into the twentieth century. I am happy to look up the sources if
>> you are interested.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Muireann
>>
>> Dr Muireann Maguire
>> Jesus College
>> Cambridge
>>
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