volume Number 11، number In Volume 4، Winter 2019 ، issue Number 42

Analysis of the Diversity of Persian and Russian Folk Tales

Homeyra Zomorrody(Author in Charge), Alina Ivashchenko

Abstract
The purpose of this article is to review a comparative analysis of the diversity of Persian and Russian tales. In this article, we seek semantic search about the kinds of Persian and Russian tales, and the similarities and differences between them and the way of discovering new facts of the tales during periods in history and the formation of important passages of them. Iranian and Slavic (Russian) tales based on the mythological stories and instructive and wise tales arisen from the rich culture and civilization and morality, various nations, opened an introduction of them to the nations of Iran and Russia in particular and to the world in general. In this writing, we also analyze common features of the Iranian and Russian fairy tales according to the book titled “Morphology of the Tale” written by V. Propp, a leading researcher of Russian descent and pay more attention to the research field of the folk literature which was neglected in the literature studies so far and was almost studied only by the European Orientalists, especially Russian (Slavic) ones which collected works of the Persian folklore, and provide the grounds for the increasing research of Iranian folklore in the light of growing public awareness.

Keyword
folk tale , Persian tale , Russian tale , folk , classification

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