Детские сказки

by Vasily Zhukovsky, Василий Андреевич Жуковский

Шесть прозаических переводов сказок Перро и братьев Гримм, опубликованных В. А. Жуковским в петербургском детском журнале «Детский собеседник» в 1826 году: «Волшебница», «Рауль синяя борода», «Колючая роза», «Братец и сестрица», «Милый Роланд и девица ясный цвет» и «Красная шапочка». Переводы примечательны тем, что Жуковский стал первым переводчиком братьев Гримм на русский язык, а две из этих сказок послужили непосредственными источниками его стихотворных сказок 1831 года.

30 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 1826

About the author

Vasily Zhukovsky (Russian: Василий Андреевич Жуковский) was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century. He held a high position at the Romanov court as tutor to the Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna and later to her son, the future Tsar-Liberator Alexander II.

Zhukovsky is credited with introducing the Romantic Movement into Russia. The main body of his literary output consists of free translations covering an impressively wide range of poets, from ancients like Ferdowsi and Homer to his contemporaries Goethe, Schiller, Byron, and others. Many of his translations have become classics of Russian literature, arguably better-written and more enduring in Russian than in their original languages.

Reviews

[Stephen Bruce · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of six fairy tales, mostly translated from the Grimms and Perrault but with some changes. Zhukovsky felt these translations were unworthy of his poetic talent and accused the editor Grech of adding his name without his permission. But Zhukovsky continued to be interested in fairy tales, and he used these early versions as a basis for his more renowned 1831 fairy tales in verse.