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Alexander Afanasyev
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Russian folklorist, collector of folk tales (1826-1871)
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Alexander Afanasyev (1826–1871) was a Russian author. His literary output includes ten recorded works, among which are *Russkie narodnye skazki* (Russian Folk Tales), *Russian Folk Fairy Tales*, and *The Tale of Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird, and the Grey Wolf*.
The author is associated with five works in academic databases and has been referenced by 147 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 13 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Russkie narodnye skazki - Russian Folk Tales
- Russian Folk Tales - Русские народные сказки
- Russian Folk Fairy Tales
- Russian Fairy Tales
- The Tale of Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird, and the Grey Wolf
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 30
- Total plays
- 141
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,019x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,514x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,513x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,574x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,941x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1826-07-23 ) 23 July 1826, Boguchar , Voronezh Governorate , Russian Empire
- Died
- 5 October 1871 (1871-10-05) (aged 45), Moscow, Russian Empire
- Occupation
- Slavist , folklorist , literary critic , historian, journalist
- Alma mater
- Imperial Moscow University (1848)
- Notable works
- Russian Fairy Tales , Poetic Views of the Slavs on Nature
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Aleksandr
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Place of birth
- Boguchar
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Educated at
- medical school
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Field of work
- literary criticism
- Image
- Afanasev.jpg
Show 10 more facts
- name in native language
- Александр Афанасьев
- writing language
- Russian
- Commons category
- Aleksandr Afanasyev
- date of birth
- 1826-07-11
- date of death
- 1871-09-23
- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of burial
- Pyatnitskoye cemetery
- ethnic group
- Russians
- civil rank
- Court councillor
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev (Russian: Александр Николаевич Афанасьев; 23 July [O.S. 11 July] 1826 – 5 October [O.S. 23 September] 1871) 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.
Life
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