When I was teaching at a college in the north of Norway, I had many Russian students, and became interested in Russian folktales. I visited Murmansk Art College for Children in Russia around the turn of the millennium. This was a few hours’ drive across the border between Norway and Russia. I have translated many of the tales with the help of Natasha Harkness, and published several books illustrated by the children’s paintings. I hope to share these Russian art and folktales on this website.
The teachers at the college presented me with 100 or more wonderful paintings done by the children. These paintings illustrated many of the Slavic folktales, which also resembled many west European folktales. Folk culture is not determined by ‘national’ borders, as the folktales were created before the creation of nations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Murmansk College of Art for Children
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