The Sleeping Beauty — Russian fairy tale character

Sleeping Beauty is one of the most popular fables ever. The original story appeared in Medieval Europe and tells the story of a young princess cursed to fall asleep on her 16th birthday. Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky published the Russian version of this tale, The Sleeping Tsarevna, in 1832. It was the translation of Charles Perrault’s La Belle au Bois Dormant and Brothers Grimm’s Dornröschen but adjusted to Russian traditions and culture.