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Arthur Ransome. Russian Fairytales & Fables (Illustrated Edition)
Russian Fairytales & Fables (Illustrated Edition)
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Russian Picture Fables for the Little Ones:
THE COCK AND THE BEAN
THE GOAT AND THE RAM
THE HUNGRY WOLF
THE PEASANT AND THE BEAR
THE DOG AND THE COCK
KING FROST
THE BEAR'S PAW
THE BEAR AND THE OLD MAN'S DAUGHTERS
THE STRAW OX
THE FOX AND THE BLACKBIRD
The Fairy-Book:
THE FROG PRINCESS
SNEGOROTCHKA
IVAN AND THE CHESTNUT HORSE
BASHTCHELIK (OR, REAL STEEL)
THE FIRE BIRD
The Russian Garland: Folk Tales
STORY OF LYUBIM TSAREVICH AND THE WINGED WOLF
STORY OF THE MOST WONDERFUL AND NOBLE SELF-PLAYING HARP
THE SEVEN BROTHERS SIMEON
STORY OF IVAN, THE PEASANT’S SON
STORY OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN
ILIYA OF MUROM AND THE ROBBER NIGHTINGALE
THE RENOWNED HERO, BOVA KOROLEVICH, AND THE PRINCESS DRUSHNEVNA
THE MILD MAN AND HIS CANTANKEROUS WIFE
STORY OF THE DUCK WITH GOLDEN EGGS
STORY OF BULAT THE BRAVE COMPANION
STORY OF PRINCE MALANDRACH AND THE PRINCESS SALIKALLA
STORY OF A SHOEMAKER AND HIS SERVANT PRITUITSHKIN
EMELYAN, THE FOOL
THE JUDGMENT OF SHEMYAKA
STORY OF PRINCE PETER WITH THE GOLDEN KEYS, AND THE PRINCESS MAGILENE
SILA TSAREVICH AND IVASHKA WITH THE WHITE SMOCK
STORY OF THE KNIGHT YAROSLAV LASAREVICH AND THE PRINCESS ANASTASIA
Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi
PREFACE
THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN
MOROZKO1
THE FLYING SHIP
THE MUZHICHEK1-AS-BIG-AS-YOUR-THUMB-WITH-MOUSTACHES-SEVEN-VERSTS2-LONG
THE STORY OF THE TSAREVICH IVAN, AND OF THE HARP THAT HARPED WITHOUT A HARPER
THE STORY OF GORE-GORINSKOE1
GO I KNOW NOT WHITHER—FETCH I KNOW NOT WHAT
KUZ’MA SKOROBOGATY1
THE TSAREVNA LOVELINESS-INEXHAUSTIBLE
VERLIOKA
THE FROG-TSAREVNA
THE TWO SONS OF IVAN THE SOLDIER
THE WOMAN-ACCUSER
THOMAS BERENNIKOV
THE WHITE DUCK
THE TALE OF LITTLE FOOL IVAN
THE LITTLE FEATHER OF FENIST THE BRIGHT FALCON
THE TALE OF THE PEASANT DEMYAN
THE ENCHANTED RING
THE BRAVE LABOURER
THE SAGE DAMSEL
THE PROPHETIC DREAM
TWO OUT OF THE KNAPSACK
THE STORY OF MARKO THE RICH AND VASILY THE LUCKLESS
Old Peter’s Russian Tales:
NOTE
THE HUT IN THE FOREST
THE TALE OF THE SILVER SAUCER AND THE TRANSPARENT APPLE
SADKO
FROST
THE FOOL OF THE WORLD AND THE FLYING SHIP
BABA YAGA
BABA YAGA AND THE LITTLE GIRL WITH THE KIND HEART
THE CAT WHO BECAME HEAD-FORESTER
SPRING IN THE FOREST
THE LITTLE DAUGHTER OF THE SNOW
PRINCE IVAN, THE WITCH BABY, AND THE LITTLE SISTER OF THE SUN
THE STOLEN TURNIPS, THE MAGIC TABLECLOTH, THE SNEEZING GOAT, AND THE WOODEN WHISTLE
LITTLE MASTER MISERY
A CHAPTER OF FISH
THE GOLDEN FISH
WHO LIVED IN THE SKULL?
ALENOUSHKA AND HER BROTHER
THE FIRE-BIRD, THE HORSE OF POWER, AND THE PRINCESS VASILISSA
THE HUNTER AND HIS WIFE
THE THREE MEN OF POWER—EVENING, MIDNIGHT, AND SUNRISE
SALT
THE CHRISTENING IN THE VILLAGE
Muscovite Folk Tales with Detailed Notes for Adults:
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
The Fiend[18]
The Dead Mother[24]
The Dead Witch[26]
The Treasure[31]
The Cross-Surety[35]
The Awful Drunkard[43]
The Bad Wife[53]
The Golovikha[55]
The Three Copecks[56]
The Miser[58]
The Fool and the Birch-Tree[62]
The Mizgir[66]
The Smith and the Demon[69]
CHAPTER II. MYTHOLOGICAL. Principal Incarnations of Evil
Ivan Popyalof[74]
The Norka[85]
Marya Morevna[101]
Koshchei the Deathless[112]
The Water Snake[141]
The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise[143]
The Baba Yaga[161]
Vasilissa the Fair[182]
The Witch[206]
The Witch and the Sun’s Sister[216]
CHAPTER III. MYTHOLOGICAL. Miscellaneous Impersonifications
One-Eyed Likho[224]
Woe[233]
Friday[253]
Wednesday[255]
The Léshy[264]
Vazuza and Volga[268]
Sozh and Dnieper
The Metamorphosis of the Dnieper, the Volga, and the Dvina.[272]
Frost[277]
CHAPTER IV. MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT
The Blind Man and the Cripple[318]
Princess Helena the Fair[329]
Emilian the Fool[351]
The Witch Girl[358]
The Headless Princess[364]
The Soldier’s Midnight Watch[366]
The Warlock[375]
CHAPTER V. GHOST STORIES
The Fox-Physician[380]
The Fiddler in Hell[391]
The Ride on the Gravestone[401]
The Two Friends[402]
The Shroud[404]
The Coffin-Lid[408]
The Two Corpses[409]
The Dog and the Corpse[411]
The Soldier and the Vampire[412]
CHAPTER VI. LEGENDS. I. About Saints
Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas[444]
The Priest with the Greedy Eyes[454]
II. About Demons
The Hasty Word[470]
