Russian Fairy

Вильгельм Гауф родился в Штутгарте в 1802 году в семье государственного служащего. В детстве Вильгельм запоем читал все, что попадалось ему под руку в огромной библиотеке деда.

The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf is a Russian fairy tale collected by a Russian Slavist and ethnographer Alexander Afanasyev. A king's apple tree bore golden apples, but every night, one was stolen. Guards reported that the Firebird stole them. The king told his two oldest sons that the one who caught the bird would receive half his kingdom and be his heir. They drew lots to see who would be first, but both fell asleep; they tried to claim it had not come, but it had stolen an apple. Finally Ivan Tsarevich, the youngest son, asked to try; his father was reluctant because of his youth but consented.

Finist Clear Falcon 's feather is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki (1855-1863). The story of a daughter who asks only for a scarlet flower when her father goes to market, instead of the luxuries her two sisters ask for. Two times her father forgets; the third time, he buys a scarlet flower from a mysterious old man as long as the daughter agrees to marry his son, Finist the Falcon. This sets in motion a tale of love, jealousy, and adventure as the two overcome many obstacles to their love.

Sister Alenushka, brother Ivanushka is a Russian fairy tale collected by Russian Slavist and ethnographer Alexander Afanasyev. A classic Russian fairy tale about Alyonushka and her naughty brother turned into a goatling.

Older than she looks and powerful beyond measure, Barbara Yager no longer has much in common with the mortal life she left behind long ago. Posing as an herbalist and a researcher, she travels the country with her faithful (mostly) dragon-turned-dog in an enchanted Airstream, fulfilling her duties as a Baba Yaga and avoiding any possibility of human attachment.

The fourth installment of Russian Collection for Kids features stories that begin in everyday life and end in magic. Their main characters are children - boys and girls thrown into tough circumstances and having to test the limits of their courage and ingenuity to solve problems without grown-up help.

Come in and sample an entirely different sort of fairy tale - coming to you from a faraway land and written by authors of whom you have never heard.

"Malen'kij oborvysh" povest' dlja detej britanskogo pisatelja i zhurnalista Dzhejmsa Grinvuda (1833-1929). Glavnyj geroj povesti - mal'chik, kotoryj okazyvaetsja na ulice. Emu prihoditsja promyshljat' na Koventgardenskom rynke, voruja chto popadjot pod ruku ili pitajas' otbrosami, nochevat' v katakombah i furgonah, a inogda i na syroj zemle.

"Shkol'naja koroleva" - povest' dlja detej, izvestnoj britanskoj pisatel'nicy Jelizabet Mid-Smit. V shkole missis Shervud Kitti O'Donovan - vseobshhaja ljubimica. Devochki edinodushno vybrali ee korolevoj maja. Ona samaja krasivaja, poslushnaja i dobraja uchenica. Drugaja uchenica jetoj shkoly, gordaja i samoljubivaja Genrietta ne mozhet smerit'sja s jetim. Ona ustraivaet zagovor protiv Kitti...

The fifth and final installment of Russian Collection for Kids goes well and truly outside of the boundaries of Russia and all over the world. Folk tales and stories by foreign authors, narratives from various continents, fanciful and fascinating story lines, people, places, and animals - everything has been thrown in and mixed thoroughly in this comprehensive collection, bound to astonish and delight both children and grown-ups.

O, bu sharq ertaklari, naqadar ajoyib! Undagi siymolar Sahroyi Kabir qumlaridan bunyod bo'lgan, turk qahvasining xushbo'y bug'ida gavdalangan yoki Gang daryosining sermavj to'lqinlarida tug'ilgandek go'yo... Ehtimol, yapon sitrasining nafis ohangi ularni biz tomon eltgan, yo nogoh, Eron gilamlaridagi naqshlardan o'qib olgandirmiz... Sharq ertaklarini farzandlaringiz bilan tinglang va ularning xushbo'y iforidan bahra oling!

El libro contiene historias de misterio de todas las épocas de la historia de Rusia, desde su remoto pasado pagano hasta el comunismo del siglo 20 y el período contemporáneo. Los cuentos inéditos del autor incorporan siglos de tradiciones folclóricas del país eslavo, presentando relatos macabros y ominosos de brujas, monstruos, fantasmas, espíritus maléficos y fenómenos inexplicables.

In volume three, we look beyond the borders of Russia. This collection includes 15 folk tales - one from each of the former Soviet Republics, each with its own unique traditions and storytelling style.

Russkie narodnye skazki: Po shchuch'emu velen'yu, Sem' Simeonov, Podi tuda - ne znayu kuda, Ivan-Krest'yanskiy syn i CHudo-YUdo, Petr I i muzhik, Soldatskaya shinel', Kashica iz topora, Tri kalacha i odna baranka.

Prekrasnaya skazka nemeckogo pisatelya-romantika Vil'gel'ma Gaufa "Malen'kiy Muk" rasskazyvaet o chudesnyh priklyucheniyah mal'chika, kotoryy s pomoshch'yu volshebnyh tufel' i trosti sumel pobedit' svoyu neblagosklonnuyu sud'bu i dobit'sya udachi. Hodyachiy vostochnyy syuzhet pod perom Gaufa prevratilsya v zahvatyvayushchiy rasskaz, grustnyy i smeshnoy odnovremenno, bogatyy zhiteyskoy mudrost'yu i tonkimi nablyudeniyami nad chelovecheskim harakterom.

Puteshestviya Sindbada-morekhoda - ehto odna iz samyh yarkih stranic mnogocvetnogo, zahvatyvayushchego mira vostochnoy fantazii. Neuemnoe bespokoystvo Sindbada vlechet ego vse k novym stranstviyam i priklyucheniyam. Ego zhdut vstrechi s zagadochnymi sushchestvami, magami i charodeyami, lyudoedami i chudovishchami. V ehtom volshebnom izmenchivom mire Sindbada spasayut nastoychivost' i upryamstvo, nahodchivost' i tonkiy raschet, sila duha i volya k zhizni.

Russkie narodnye skazki: Carevna-lyagushka, Ivan-carevich i seryy volk, Finist-yasnyy sokol, Nikita-Kozhemyaka, Skazka o molodil'nyh yablokah i zhivoy vode, Morskoy car' i Vasilisa Premudraya.

Russkie narodnye skazki: Pastush'ya dudochka, Kak brat'ya otcovskiy klad nashli, Tri arbuznyh semechka, Zayac, Kuz'ma Skorobogaryy, Serebryanoe blyudechko i nalivnoe yablochko, Komu myt' gorshochek, Okameneloe carstvo, Nesmeyana-carevna, Skazka pro Vasilisu Premudruyu, Muzhik i vodyanoy, Ptichiy yazyk, Zolotaya rybka.

Russkie narodnye skazki: Volshebnoe kol'co, Umnaya vnuchka, Ivan Bestalannyy i Elena Premudraya, Bezruchka, Moroka, Soldat i carica, Kto sil'nee, Medved' i pchely, Lisa i volk, Lisa i rak, Medved' i sobaka, Carevna-lyagushka.

Russkie narodnye skazki: Lisichka-sestrichka i volk, Lisa i zhuravl', Petushok - zolotoy grebeshok, Kot i lisa, Hitryy kozel, Volk i koza, Kolobok, Repka, Masha i medved', Mal'chik s pal'chik, Gusi-lebedi, Sestrica Alenushka i bratec Ivanushka, Havroshechka, Volshebnoe kol'co.