Russian 0090: Russian Fairy Tales

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Contents

• Folk Themes by Subject
• Folk Themes by Artist
• Icons by Subject

Folk Themes by Subject

• Alësha Popovich
  • Mighty Bogatyr′ Alësha Popovich (lubok, 18th c.)
• Baba Yaga (see also specific tales)
  • Baba Yaga (Benua, A.)
  • Baba Yaga (Bilibin, Vasilisa the Beautiful, 1900)
  • Baba Yaga (Zvorykin, 1920s)
  • Vasilisa the Beautiful (Cover) (Zvorykin, 1920s, features Baba Yaga)
  • Baba Yaga (anonymous)
  • Transparent Forest Where Baba Yaga Lives (Larionov, stage set, 1916)
  • Baba Yaga’s Hut on Chicken Legs (Polenova, 1885)
• Bannik
  • Bannik (Bilibin)
• Bogatyrs
  • Mighty Bogatyr′ Alësha Popovich (lubok, 18th c.)
• Daughter and Stepdaughter
  • Daughter and Stepdaughter (Palekh)
• Domovoi
  • Domovoi (Zabirokhin 1995)
• Firebird
  • Collection Cover (Firebird) (Bilibin 1909)
  • Prince Ivan, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf (pulling firebird feather) (Bilibin 1899)
  • The Firebird (Zvorykin 1920s)
  • The Firebird (Chagall 1949)
  • La Peri (Bakst, 1911)
  • Firebird (Somov, 1907, cover of book by K. Bal′mont)
  • Firebird (anonymous)
• Flying Carpet
  • Flying Carpet (V. Vasnetsov 1920s)
• Folk Dance
  • Russian Folkdance (Roussel, second half of the nineteenth century)
• Frog Princess
  • The Frog Princess (cover) (Bilibin)
  • The Frog Princess (Bilibin)
  • The Frog Princess (Iu. Vasnetsov)
  • The Frog Princess (closeup) (Iu. Vasnetsov)
  • The Frog Princess (Palekh)
• Gathering Berries
  • Gathering Berries (Ivanova, 1977)
• Gold Fish
  • A. S. Pushkin (1799-1837), The Fisherman and the Fish (20th c. book cover)
  • The Gold Fish (Palekh)
• Golden Cockerel
  • Vatagin: The Golden Cockerel (Vatagin)
  • The Golden Cockerel (Bilibin)
  • The Golden Cockerel (Bilibin)
• Koshchey the Deathless
  • Koshchey the Deathless (Vasnetsov)
  • Koshchey the Deathless (Bilibin, Maria Morevna, 1901)
  • Koshchey the Deathless and Maria Morevna (Zvorykin, “Maria Morevna,” 1920s)
  • Coffer Containing the Death of Koschey the Deathless
• Leshii
  • Leshii (Antipova 1996)
  • Leshii (Zabirokhin 1995)
  • Woodsprite (Vakurov, Palekh 1928)
• Maria Morevna
  • Prince Ivan and the Defeated Forces (Bilibin, 1901)
  • Koshchey the Deathless (Bilibin, 1901)
  • Koshchey the Deathless and Maria Morevna (Zvorykin, “Maria Morevna,” 1920s)
• Peasant Family
  • Peasant Family (Anonymous mid-nineteenth century)
• Perun
  • Perun (Bakst 1907)
• Polevoi
  • Polevoi (Zabirokhin 1995)
• Poludnitsa
  • Poludnitsa (Antipova 1996)
• Prince Ivan, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf
  • Prince Ivan, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf (Bilibin 1899)
  • Prince Ivan, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf (pulling firebird feather) (Bilibin 1899)
  • Prince Ivan, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf (Zvorykin 1920s)
  • Ivan Tsarevich, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf (V. Vasnetsov 1889)
  • Ivan Tsarevich, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf (Anonymous lithograph, 1870)
• Reaping
  • Reaping Plate (Markichev, 1932)
• Rusalka
  • Rusalka (Antipova 1996)
  • Rusalki (Zabirokhin 1995)
• St. Nicholas
  • Nikola (N. Rerich, 1916)
• Swan Princess
  • Swan Princess (Vrubel′)
• Troika
  • Troika and Wolves (Palekh, Golikov, 1924)
  • Winter Troika (Lavrov, 1940)
• Tsar Saltan
  • Tsar Saltan (Palekh)
  • Tsar Saltan (Detail) (Palekh)
• Vasilisa the Beautiful
  • Vasilisa the Beautiful (Banner) (Bilibin, 1900)
  • Baba Yaga (Bilibin, 1900)
  • Vasilisa and the White Knight (Bilibin, 1900)
  • The Red Knight (Bilibin, 1900)
  • The Black Knight (Bilibin, 1900)
  • Fence Around Baba Yaga’s Hut (Bilibin, 1899)
  • Cover (Zvorykin, 1920s)
  • Vasilisa the Beautiful (Palekh [Bazhenov])
• Vodianoi
  • Vodianoi (Antipova 1996)
  • Vodianoi (Zabirokhin 1995)
• Witch (see also Baba Yaga)
  • The Witch and the Sun-Sister (Palekh)
• Znakhar′ (Magic Healer)
  • Znakhar′ (Magic Healer) (Palekh)

Folk Themes by Artist

• Anonymous
  • Peasant Family (mid-nineteenth century)
  • Ivan Tsarevich, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf (Anonymous lithograph, 1870)
  • Firebird (anonymous)
• Antipova, Nadezhda (late twentieth century)
  • Leshii (1996)
  • Poludnitsa (1996)
  • Rusalka (1996)
  • Vodianoi (1996)
• Bakst, Lev
  • Perun (cover illustration of poetry volume by Sergei Gorodetskii, 1907)
  • La Peri (1911)
• Benua, A.
  • Baba Yaga (1904)
• Bilibin, Ivan (1876-1942)
  • Bannik
  • Prince Ivan, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf (1899)
  • The Frog Princess (cover)
  • The Frog Princess
  • Collection Cover (Firebird) (1909)
  • Prince Ivan, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf (pulling firebird feather) (1899)
  • Vasilisa the Beautiful (Banner) (1900)
  • Baba Yaga (Vasilisa the Beautiful, 1900)
  • Vasilisa and the White Knight (Vasilisa the Beautiful, 1900)
  • The Red Knight (Vasilisa the Beautiful, 1900)
  • The Black Knight (Vasilisa the Beautiful, 1900)
  • Fence Around Baba Yaga’s Hut (Vasilisa the Beautiful, 1899)
  • Prince Ivan and the Defeated Forces (Maria Morevna, 1901)
  • Koshchey the Deathless (Maria Morevna, 1901)
  • The Golden Cockerel (1)
  • The Golden Cockerel (2)
• Chagall, Marc (1887-1985)
  • The Firebird (1949)
• Ivanova, I. V.
  • Gathering Berries (1977)
• Lavrov, V. I. (Fedoskino Guild, mid-twentieth century)
  • Winter Troika (1940)
• Larionov, Mikhail (1881-1964)
  • Transparent Forest Where Baba Yaga Lives (stage set, 1916)
• Lubok [wood engraving]
  • Mighty Bogatyr′ Alësha Popovich (18th c.)
• Markichev
  • Reaping Plate (1932)
• Palekh
  • Daughter and Stepdaughter
  • The Frog Princess
  • The Gold Fish
  • Tsar Saltan (A. Kotukhin)
  • Troika and Wolves (Golikov, 1924).
  • Tsar Saltan (Detail) (A. Kotukhin)
  • The Witch and the Sun-Sister
  • Woodsprite (I. P. Vakurov, 1928)
  • Znakhar′ (Magic Healer)
• Polenova, E. D. (late 19th c)
  • Baba Yaga’s Hut on Chicken Legs (1885)
• Rerich, N. (first half of the twentieth century)
  • Nikola (1916)
• Roussel, A. P. (second half of the nineteenth century)
  • Russian Folkdance
• Somov, Konstantin (1869-1939)
  • Firebird (1907, cover of book by K. Bal′mont)
• Vasnetsov, Iurii (mid-twentieth-century)
  • The Frog Princess
  • The Frog Princess (closeup)
• Vasnetsov, Viktor (1848-1926)
  • Koshchey the Deathless
  • Flying Carpet (1920s)
  • Ivan Tsarevich, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf (1889)
• Vrubel′, Mikhail (1856-1910)
  • Swan Princess
• Vatagin, L.
  • The Golden Cockerel (1935)
• Zabirokhin, Boris (late twentieth century)
  • Domovoi (1995)
  • Leshii (1995)
  • Polevoi (1995)
  • Rusalki (1995)
  • Vodianoi (1995)
• Zvorykin, Boris (twentieth Century)
  • Prince Ivan, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf (1920s)
  • The Firebird (1920s)
  • Baba Yaga (1920s)
  • Koshchey the Deathless and Maria Morevna (“Maria Morevna,” 1920s)

Icons by Subject

• Sts. Boris and Gleb
  • Moscow School, Late 13th Century
• Elijah the Prophet
  • (description lacking)
• Flor and Laur
  • Moscow School, 16th Century
• St. George
  • St. George and the Dragon (Novgorod School, 15th Century)
• Mother of God
  • Vladimir Mother of God
    • 12th Century
  • Odigitria Mother of God
    • Dionysius, Moscow School, c. 1500
• Old Testament Trinity
  • Old Testament Trinity (Andrei Rublev, early fifteenth century)
• St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
  • St. Nicholas with Scenes from his Life (v Zhitiiakh) (Novgorod School, Late 13th-Early 14th Century)
• St. Paraskeva-Friday
  • Novgorod School, 13th Century
• Savior
  • Savior
    • Andrei Rublev, 1409
  • Savior of the Fiery Eye
    • 14th Century
  • Savior Not Made By Hand
    • Novgorod School, 12th Century

See also George Mitrevski’s Russian Art and Russian Icons web pages. Some images on this server were copied with permission from that site.