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The Russian fairy tale about Tsarevich Ivan and his wife, Vasilisa the Wise,who was enchanted to be a frog, was recorded by the renowned folklorist AlexanderNikolayevich Afanasyev (1826–1871), who collected and published morethan 600 Russian folk tales in the middle 19th century.