Alexander Afanasyev

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About Alexander Afanasyev

Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer best known for publishing nearly 600 East Slavic and Russian fairy and folk tales, one of the largest collections of folklore in the world. This collection was not restricted to Great Russia, but included folk tales from what are now Ukraine and Belarus as well. The first edition of his collection was published in eight volumes from 1855 to 1867, earning him the reputation of being the Russian counterpart to the Brothers Grimm. Birthdays.fyi indexes this profile with birthday, age, profession cluster, source links, and nearby people born on July 11.

Before fame

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Trivia

Russian ethnographer and author (died 1871). This page is tagged with Arts & Letters, Historical, Russian, July 11.

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