# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-afanasyev
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:28:20.650Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-afanasyev"
name: "Alexander Afanasyev"
slug: "alexander-afanasyev"
description: "Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer best known for publishing nearly 600 East Slavic and Russian fairy and folk tales, one of the largest collections of folklore in the world. This collection was not restricted to Great Russia, but included folk tales from what are now Ukraine and Belarus as well. The first edition of his collection was published in eight volumes from 1855 to 1867, earning him the reputation of being the Russian counterpart to the Brothers Grimm."
tagline: "Russian folklorist, collector of folk tales (1826-1871)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Afanasev.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1826-07-11"
deathDate: "1871-09-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.96
  momentum:             0.02348420153714773
  historical:           22.03568666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Discogs"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Afanasjev"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325004"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump