Historical origins of the fairy tale

The world of fairy tales is rich and unpredictable. Do we know why each fairy tale is arranged in this way, and not otherwise? What is the Triviney Kingdom? Who is Baba Yaga really? Why does the hut on chicken legs constantly turn? How are the actions of heroes related to ancient rites and beliefs? Who was the prototype of Ivanushki-Durachka and is Vasilisa a wonderful one as good as we used to think?
All our questions about fairy tales will be answered by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp - an outstanding domestic philologist, one of the founders of a structuralist approach in folklore, which later received wide application in literary criticism. The book “The Historical Roots of the Fairy Tale” has become one of the most popular and influential studies of folklore and humanitarian thought of the 20th century