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• Not Your Usual Damsels in Distress: Three Heroines from Russian Fairytales

  Looking for some inspiring female characters? You’ve found them! While princesses in Russian fairytales do sometimes need saving, they rarely are the helpless, just-waiting-for-my-prince type. They are wise, strong, and at times adept at stoicism. Let’s meet three of them today.

  30.03.2026

• Giant Turnips and Runaway Buns: Essential Russian Folktales

  Storytelling is a universal activity around the globe. Stories passed down from generation to generation in different parts of the world may seem to have nothing at common at first glance, but there are actually many similarities in their structure and symbolism. Let’s take a look at several folktales all Russians know by an early age and maybe we’ll draw some analogies.

  01.03.2021