Angushtar-i Siḥr'āmīz: Qiṣṣah'hā-yi 'Amīyānah-yi Rūsī az Majmū'ah-yi Aliksāndir Afānasīf: Persiska (Farsi) 1402

The magic ring is a selection from the huge collection of stories written by Alexander Afanasyev, an ethnographer, researcher of the Russian language and Slavic culture, and one of the pioneers of the research in Russian popular culture in the years 1855 to 1863, under the name of Russian Fairy Tales, in eight volumes and including six hundred He published stories that included stories from all over Russia, as well as Belarus and Ukraine. Afanasyev's collection was considered the first collection of its kind in Russia, and it played an important role in subsequent researches about Russian popular culture and the acquaintance of writers and artists. He had stories that were shared among ordinary people in those vast lands for several centuries. Afanasyev's work is also one of the main sources of Vladimir Propp in the book Morphology of Fairy Tales. Many researchers consider Russian fairy tales to be equal to the famous collection of Brothers Grimm.