Russian Fairy

Russian stories hold a special place in the hearts of fairy tales fans. Unforgettable characters like Baba Yaga and the Fire-Bird have captured imaginations for generations. In this collection, listeners are sure to find old favorites and discover something new.

Long cold winter nights make for good story telling, so it's scarcely surprising that some of the world's most wonderful fairy tales come from Russia. Soar through the air in 'The Flying ship', feel the frost freeze your bones in 'The Strange Bridegroom', sail the seven seas in a ship with patchwork sails in 'The Salt Mountain'. These are stories guaranteed to delight in another outstanding edition of Classic Children's Stories.

Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) wrote Old Peter's Russian Tales while he was in Russia during the First World War, prior to becoming a war correspondent for The Manchester Guardian. There are 22 stories in all and are told by Old Peter at the behest of his grandchildren, Ivan and Maroosia, in a cozy log cabin in the middle of the forest. These are delightful re-tellings in Ransome's own words of Russian folk tales, and include stories such as "The Little Snow Girl", "Baba Yaga", "Frost", and "Salt".

An American TV actress adopts a little Russian girl in St. Petersburg in 1994. The actress, Molly McKay, arrives to find a Russia struggling to become a free market democracy. She also discovers that the TV show she starred in back in the ‘80s in the U.S. is now a big hit in Russia, complicating an already harrowing adoption journey. Then there are the two handsome princes, one Russian, one American, and all the other fairytale characters who help or hinder My Russian Clementine.

Russian Folk Fairy Tales is a wonderful collection of the most famous Russian fairy tales. The "Russian skazki" ("skazatz" means to tell) are the mass of folk-tales distributed widely throughout all the Russias. Handed down, by constant repetition, from generation to generation, a possession common to peasant's hut and Prince's palace from a time when history did not exist, they are to-day, from Archangel to the Black Sea, and from Siberia to the Baltic, almost as much a part of the life of the people as the language itself.

Велико и многогранно наследие Николая Константиновича Рериха: картины, философские очерки и научные статьи, стихи и путевые заметки. Особое место занимают сказки - уникальный синтез знаний, размышлений и интуитивных предчувствий автора.

В книге Н. К. Рериха Шамбала собраны легенды, мифы, рассказы о Заповедной Стране — Шамбале. Образ Шамбалы проходит через все литературное и художественное творчество Н. К. Рериха. Сочетая легенды с реальными фактами, Рерих в поэтической форме излагает концепцию Космической эволюции. Живя в Индии, Николай Константинович и Елена Ивановна Рерихи долго и продуктивно сотрудничали с удивительной группой индийских Учителей. Результатом этого явилось создание книг Живой Этики, или Агни Йоги.

'The Wise Princess' is a take on the traditional Russian fairy tale of the frog princess. Three princes are instructed by their father, the king, to fire their arrows at random and marry whichever maidens they land near to. The youngest son's arrow lands in a marsh next to a frog. But the frog turns out to be a wise princess in disguise - and when the prince sees the princess in her true form he falls in love with her. One night when the princess is not wearing her frog skin, the princes takes it and burns it.

Collection The Best Fairy Tales contents. Brothers Grimm: Hansel and Gretel ; Little Red Cap ; Rumplestiltskin ; Rapunzel. Charles Perrault : Cinderella Or The Little Glass Slipper ; The Master Cat or Puss In Boots ; The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods. Hans Christian Andersen: The Ugly Duckling. Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince ; The Nightingale and the Rose ; The Selfish Giant ; The Devoted Friend ; The Remarkable Rocket.

Skazki Aleksandra Sergeevicha Pushkina: Skazka o care Saltane, Skazka o Zolotom Petushke, Skazka o Mertvoj Carevne i o semi bogatyrjah, Skazka o pope i o rabotnike ego Balde, Skazka o Rybake i rybke v ispolnenii narodnoj artistki RF Klary Novikovoj.

Humayun Ahmed is one of the most popular novel writers in Bangladesh. Undoubtedly, Himu is one of his greatest creations. This book is about Himu's love with an angel from Russia. Hope you will enjoy the audiobook.

Spektakl' po znamenitoj skazke Andersena v ispolnenii vydajushhihsja artistov Central'nogo akademicheskogo detskogo teatra. Devochka Gerda, spasaja svoego druga Kaja, zakoldovannogo zloj i kovarnoj Snezhnoj korolevoj, prohodit cherez vse ispytanija, preodolevaet mnogochislennye opasnosti. Ljubov' i vernost' pobezhdajut besserdechie i nenavist'...

"King Kojata" is a Slavonic fairy tale. A king and a queen had no children. One day, the king was travelling and grew thirsty. He found a spring with a cup floating in it. He did not succeed at trying to grab the cup: it always evaded his hands. When he dropped to drink directly, a creature in the well grabbed his beard and would not free him until he promised to give it something he knew nothing about, and which he would find on his return home.

Тоон Теллеген - знаменитый нидерландский автор детских книг, которого называют "амстердамским Хармсом". Книги Теллегена для детей тайком читают и их родители: слишком уж они смешные, абсурдные и неожиданно глубокие. Его сказки неоднократно получали самые престижные награды, включая международную премию имени Ганса Кристиана Андерсона, и переведены на множество языков, благодаря чему радуют детей во всем мире. Встречайте Теллегена на Storytel - в самом лучшем исполнении Алены Долецкой!

A collection of funny tales in which magic is sure to be present! There is not a single child in the whole world who would not like fairy tales! Especially folk tales transmitted from generation to generation. The wise Russian people composed many fairy tales: funny and sad, magical and everyday, long and short, fairy tales for the youngest children and older children.

Alexander Sergeyevich was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian literature.

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.

This small volume completes the translation of Karel Erben’s A Hundred Genuine Popular Slavonie Fairy Stories. The first volume, Segnius Irritant, maps out, so to say, the primitive folklore weather myth of which nearly the whole of the succeeding 92 stories are wholly or in part reproductions.

Far away, in the fairy country, there lived a king and Queen; they have no children. Went to the king in foreign lands, far to the sides, for a long time the house had never been; at that time the Queen bore him a son, Ivan Tsarevich, and the king was about to say something and does not know.

Russkaja narodnaja skazka - proizvedenie ustnogo tvorchestva russkogo naroda, odin iz vidov fol'klornoj prozy. V russkih skazkah russkij narod pytalsja vyskazat' svoe nacional'noe mirooshhushhenie, nastavit' svoih detej v pervobytnoj, no glubokoj zhiznennoj mudrosti, - razreshaja lezhavshie na ego serdce zhiznennye, nravstvennye, semejnye, bytovye i gosudarstvennye voprosy.