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Aleksandr Nikolaevich Nechaev
Александр Нечаев
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Alexander Nikolayevich Nechaev is a Soviet writer and folklorist who processed Russian folk tales and epics. Alexander Nikolaevich (1902 – 1986) was a man who was genuinely in love with storytelling. During his life, he collected and processed a great many folklore, giving us today a lot of popular fairy tales, such as “Helena the Beautiful” and “Andrey the Sagittarius”. A graduate of the Higher courses of art history, he worked at the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences, studying
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Alexander Nikolayevich Nechaev is a Soviet writer and folklorist who processed Russian folk tales and epics.
Alexander Nikolaevich (1902 – 1986) was a man who was genuinely in love with storytelling. During his life, he collected and processed a great many folklore, giving us today a lot of popular fairy tales, such as “Helena the Beautiful” and “Andrey the Sagittarius”.
A graduate of the Higher courses of art history, he worked at the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences, studying folklore. In 1932, he first came to the White Sea North, where he collected about 7,500 sheets of tales, legends and epics printed on a typewriter, eventually publishing about fifty books with fairy tales on the basis of his expeditions, including the highly popular “Ivan is smaller, with a big mind”. He collaborated with writer Alexei Tolstoy on the processing of fairy tales for children, went on expeditions to the Russian North, published many books, including “Selected epics” and “White Sea tales told by M. M. Korguev”, becoming one of the most prominent representatives of Russian writers-folklorists.