Russian Folktales

Throughout my readings in Russian Folktales by Ivan I. Bilibin and Robert Chandler I have learned that the Russians have a beautiful way of writing their stories. They write them with beautiful artwork to portray the story that is being told. The author of the story Ivan uses his own name in the stories (most likely trying to interpret himself through his characters) the poems are very fun and interesting to read yet have a deeper meaning that can sometimes be overlooked. It's very interesting to have Russian in the poems and then being able to go look them up and figure out what they mean in English. The other often uses humans and animals in his poems, treating them as equals and gives the animals almost "human like" qualities. Throughout the poems Bilibin often uses the same characters just in a different story. At first he has his main character have three brothers and a few stories in he has three sisters. It's almost as though the poems are a big long story of tue same character, broken up into a bunch of little stories.