The Tale of the Golden Cockerel
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The Tale of the Golden Cockerel is the last fairy tale
in verse by Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin wrote the tale in 1834
and it was first published in literary magazine Biblioteka dlya chteniya in 1835
. The tale is based on the short story Legend of the Arabian Astrologer from the Tales of the Alhambra
by Washington Irving
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Fairy tale
A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features such folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. However, only a small number of the stories refer to fairies...
in verse by Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin wrote the tale in 1834
1834 in literature
The year 1834 in literature involved some significant new books.-New books:*William Harrison Ainsworth -Rookwood*Carl Jonas Love Almquist - Drottningens juvelsmycke*Honoré de Balzac - Le père Goriot...
and it was first published in literary magazine Biblioteka dlya chteniya in 1835
1835 in literature
The year 1835 in literature involved some significant new books.-Events:* Alexis de Tocqueville publishes the first volume of Democracy in America....
. The tale is based on the short story Legend of the Arabian Astrologer from the Tales of the Alhambra
Tales of the Alhambra
Tales of the Alhambra is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving.-Background:Shortly after completing a biography of Christopher Columbus in 1828, Washington Irving traveled from Madrid, where he had been staying, to Granada, Spain...
by Washington Irving
Washington Irving
Washington Irving was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works...
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Adaptations
- 1907 - The Golden CockerelThe Golden CockerelThe Golden Cockerel is an opera in three acts, with short prologue and even shorter epilogue, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Its libretto, by Vladimir Belsky, derives from Alexander Pushkin's 1834 poem The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, which in turn is based on two chapters of Tales of the Alhambra by...
, opera by Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovNikolai Rimsky-KorsakovNikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...
. - 1967 - Golden Cockerel, USSR, animatedAnimationAnimation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
film by Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya. http://www.animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=2230
External links
«Сказка о золотом петушке» avaialble at Russian Virtual Library- The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, translated by Walter W. ArndtWalter W. ArndtWalter Arndt born 1916 of German parents in Istanbul, Turkey , he is the Sherman Fairchild Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, of Russian Language and Literature at Dartmouth College...