This item is about the fairy tale. For other values, glimpse of Sleeping beauty (disambiguation)."Sleeping Princess" by Viktor Vasnetsov Sleeping beauty is a classic fairy tale which engages an attractive princess, enchantment and a handsome prince. It is the first in the set released in 1697 by Charles Perrault, Contes de ma MèreThe most well renowned Sleeping beauty in the English-speaking world has become the 1959 Walt Disney animated movie, which sketches as much from Tchaikovsky's choreography (premiered at Saint Petersburg in 1890) as it does from Perrault.