From the Association for International Education, these pages provide a good background on Russian culture. Included are subjects like dance, cuisine, art, architecture plus many more interesting subjects.

From a very nice web site on Russian lacquer art. This is an illustrated collection of Russian Fairy Tales often depicted on the lacquer boxes. A must see!

Maintained by Masha Holl, this site provides the background on the 4 types folk tales, along with several resources.

The St. Petersburg State Puppet Theatre of Fairy-Tale site contains much information about the theatre, including: news, theatre history, descriptions of currently performed plays, and contact information. The site is in Russian only.

Numerous short and interestingtales are presented here.

Located in the Library of Congress in Washington, this center was developed in 1976 (the bicentennial) to "preserve and present American folklife." This site contains a large amount of information and resources.

This purpose of this society, founded in 1888, is to promote "interest and research in all aspects study of folklore and folklife" in addition to increasing "the respect given to diversecultures and their traditions".

Seen as spiritual beings, minor gods, flesh and blood animals or a combination of these, the tales of large creatures have been a part of American's lives since childhood. The most famous is called "Sasquatch".

On February 2nd, Americans find out if there will be an early Spring or a long Winter. All of this depends on whether Punxustawney Phil sees his shadow when he comes out of his home! You can actually view the event.