June 23, 2001

Book Picks - Folklore

by Linda DeLaine

An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics
James Osler Bailey, Tatyana Avanova (Editor)

Paperback, 1st ed., 464pp.
Sharpe, M.e., Inc.
May 1999

Encyclopedia of Russian
and Slavic Myth and Legend
Mike Dixon-Kennedy

Hardcover, 392pp.
A B C-CLIO, Inc.
December 1998

Russian Gypsy Tales
James Riordan (Translator)
A. Gessler (Compiler)

Paperback, 160pp.
Interlink Publishing Group, Inc.
November 1992

Russian Fairy Tales
Alexander Nikolayevi Afanasyev

Paperback, 661pp.
Pantheon Books
June 1976

Russian Folk Belief
Linda J. Ivanits Sophie Schiller (Illustrator)
Foreword by Felix J. Oinas

Paperback, 257pp.
Sharpe, M.e., Inc.
June 1992

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Notable events on this day in Russian history

1968: Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia.

1953: Soviet Union announced that it had detonated a hydrogen bomb.

1940: Leon Trotsky fatally assaulted in Mexico City, died next day

1937: Andrei (Mikhalkov)-Konchalovsky, film director, born

1932: Vassily Aksyonov, writer, born (died 2009)

1882: Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture first performed (it was written in the course of a week in 1880 and was one of the composer's least favorite works) to mark the consecration of Christ the Savior Cathedral.

1856: Reconstructed Bolshoi Theater opens

1612: Forces of national resistance mass in Moscow. Within a week, Polish forces capitulate and the Kremlin is taken.

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