The plot of Melusine in Russian literature of the XVII— XIX centuries (translations and interpretations)
... a single attempt to engage with the plot, undertaken by V. P. Avenarius in the children’s tale The Beautiful Melusine. The tale is an adaptation for children’s reading of Goethe’s novella The New Melusine, which only loosely corresponds to the medieval novel and is rather an authorial parodic “variation on the theme.” Despite the story of Melusine being known in Russia since the 17th century, the specifics of the interpretation of the image and the context in which it appeared indicate that the ...
