Slavic fantasy

Slavic fantasy (Russian: Славянское фэнтези) - fantasy genre, was finally formed at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. Slavic fantasy is the use of Slavic folklore (legends, epics, myths) in general structural rules for fantasy works. The term Slavic fantasy broader term Russian fantasy, although these terms are sometimes used synonymously. Slavic fantasy emerged in opposition to the Western fantasy based on Celtic and Norse mythology. Far predecessor Slavic fantasy can be considered a forgotten writer Alexander Veltman with the novels Koschei the Immortal (1833) and Svyatoslavovych, Hostile Pet (1834), but the founder of the modern Slavic fantasy was Yuri Nikitin, a series of novels, Three out of the woods. The leader of the Slavic fantasy is Maria Semenova with the cycle of novels Wolfhound. It is worth noting that some of the Russian-language writers use Norse mythology (referred k.f.n EA Safron to Western Fantasy) - for example Elizabeth Butler's cycle of novels ship in the fjord, and some English-language writers - Ancient pagan folklore (e.g. C. J. Cherryh the novels The Mermaid (Rusalka, 1989) and Chernevog (Chernevog, 1990)).

EA Safron in the classification of the Slavic fantasy uses a common system of classification of fantasy, based on the book by Kagan "Morphology of art. Historical and theoretical study of the internal structure of the art world ". Eugene Gartsevich within Slavic fantasy identified two subgroups: the historic and heroic fantasy. Zhuravlev and J. Zhuravleva Slavic fantasy classified into three areas: historical, heroic and humorous.

Examples - cycle A. Nikitin "Troy" (but having symptoms, and other varieties of Slavic Fantasy), series C. Fomicheva "Meshchersky Magi" (novels "Grey Horde", "Predslava Prophecy" and "The Dream of the Hawk").

In a series of novels, "The princes of the forest", E.A. Dvoretskaya works is the main theme of the divine and earthly love.

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