Vasilisa the Beautiful (Russian: Василиса Прекрасная), commonly known as Vasilisa's Doll, is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki.
Aleksandr Rou made this fairy tale into a film, Vasilisa the Beautiful in 1939; it was the first large-budget feature in the Soviet Union to use fantasy elements, as opposed to the realistic style long favored politically. The film, however, differs drastically from the popular tale. American author Elizabeth Winthrop wrote a children's book "Vasilissa the Beautiful: a Russian Folktale" (HaperCollins, 1991) illustrated by Alexander Koshkin.
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