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George Post Wheeler. Russian Wonder Tales
Russian Wonder Tales
Table of Contents
Foreword on the Russian Skazki
FOREWORD
Prefatory Letter From Dr. L. Casso
TZAR SALTAN
Wassilissa the Beautiful
WASSILISSA THE BEAUTIFUL
THE LITTLE HUMPBACKED HORSE
Tzarevich Ivan, the Glowing Bird and the Grey Wolf
TZAREVICH IVAN, THE GLOWING BIRD AND THE GRAY WOLF
Maria Morevna
MARIA MOREVNA
Martin the Peasant's Son
MARTIN THE PEASANT'S SON
THE FEATHER OF FINIST THE FALCON
THE FROG-TZAREVNA
SCHMAT-RAZUM
LITTLE BEAR'S-SON
WASSILY THE UNLUCKY
TZAREVICH PETR AND THE WIZARD
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George Post Wheeler
Published by Good Press, 2020
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The shipmen replied: "O Tzar's Majesty! We traveled over all the world, and were on our way hither when we saw a new wonder more marvelous than any. There has been of old time in the sea-ocean an island, without inhabitants, save they were wizards or wild beasts. It had a great flat meadow on which grew a single oak-tree, and about it was a dense forest. So hath it always been; yet but now, as we came to it, we found there a splendid Palace, with towers whose tops were golden, and with green gardens about it. In it dwells a beautiful Tzaritza and a Tzarevich, and the Tzarevich has legs golden to the knee, and arms silver to the elbow, and in his hair are little stars. We landed there, and the Tzaritza entertained us royally, and sent a greeting to thee."
Tzar Saltan wondered greatly to hear, and said: "As God lets me live, I will visit this wonderful island and see it with my own eyes." But his wicked wife, not wishing him to go, began to sneer.
