Russian Fairy Tales (Russian: Народные русские сказки, variously translated; English titles include also Russian Folk Tales) is a collection of nearly 600 fairy and folktales, collected and published by Alexander Afanasyev between 1855 and 1863. The collection contained fairy and folk tales from Ukraine and Belarus alongside Russian stories. His literary work was explicitly modeled after Grimm's Fairy Tales. Vladimir Propp drew heavily on this collection for his analyses in his Morphology of the Folktale. Source: Wikipedia (en)