Rus 252
Russian Folklore

Instructor: Andrew M. Drozd 
Associate Professor of Russian 
Dept. of Modern Languages and Classics
University of Alabama 
Box 870246,
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 
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​Office: B. B. Comer Hall 213
adrozd@ua.edu

Course Syllabus

Course Schedule

Links:

• Slavic and East European Folklore Association
• Russian Folklore Expedition
• Russian Proverbs and Sayings
• What the Witcher Got Wrong about the Leshy
• Your Ultimate Guide to Baba Yaga
• 5 Popular Heroines of Russian Fairy Tales
• Who Is Ivan the Fool?
• The Fantastic Beasts of Slavic Mythology
• Meet the Domovoy
• The Two Most Popular Fish from Fairy Tales
• Who Is Koshchei the Immortal?
• 7 magical gadgets from Russian Fairy Tales
• Russian fairy tales in the paintings
• Legendary Folk Dance Companies
• 10 main Russian fairy tales
• How Russians Carried out Witch Hunts