Russian Myths

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.

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".

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.

The book contains the myths about the "Heroes" set out on the works of Hesiod, Ovid, Aeschylus, Homer, Moschus, Sophocles, Pausanias, Pindar, Euripides.

Как всегда, вас ждут аудиоверсии лучших литературных произведений популярных зарубежных писателей, в их числе.

Все сказки кончаются свадьбой. А мои приключения ею начинаются.

The book contains myths of the Trojan cycle outlined by the poem of Homer's "Iliad," the tragedies of Sophocles, poems of Virgil, Ovid's "Heroines", and fragments of other works.

В очередном сборнике "Классика зарубежного рассказа" вас ждут аудиоверсии произведений лучших зарубежных писателей XVIII-XX веков.

Russia is the largest country in the world, with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. Over a thousand years this multifaceted nation of shifting borders has been known as Rus, Muscovy, the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Thirty years ago, it was reinvented as the Russian Federation. Russia is not an enigma, but its past is violent, tragic, sometimes glorious, and certainly complicated. Like the rest of us, the Russians constantly rewrite their history. They too omit episodes of national disgrace in favour of patriotic anecdotes, sometimes more rooted in myth than reality.

The book contains the myths of Odysseus set out on the basis of Homer's "Odyssey".

The book contains the myths of the "Agamemnon, and his son Orestes" and "Theban Cycle" myth of King Oedipus, Antigone, and Alcmaeon set out by the tragedies of Aeschylus '"Agamemnon" and Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex".

The book contains the myths about the Argonauts set out on the basis of the poem of Apollonius of Rhodes'"Argonavtika".

The book contains a story about the gods of ancient Greece, written on the basis of the great works "Iliad", "Odyssey", "Aeneid".

Aleksey Nikolaevich Tolstoy - russkiy pisatel', poeht, publicist i dramaturg, sozdavshiy original'nuyu detskuyu povest' "Zolotoy klyuchik, ili Priklyucheniya Buratino", istoriyu o derevyannom mal'chishke s dlinnym nosom po motivam skazki Kollodi. S "Buratino" vyroslo ne odno pokolenie lyudey, umeyushchih smeyat'sya i druzhit', lyubit', byt' muzhestvennym i imet' v serdce mesto dlya sostradaniya, a povest' A. N. Tolstogo stala odnoy iz luchshih v detskoy mirovoy literature.

Surviving the ill-fated expedition to Knnot, Valeria, Alik, and the others have found refuge in Valeria's village. Though Val should find comfort in reuniting with her family, everything has changed—including herself. For now, Val is the Pale God's chosen champion. And she is ready for revenge on the Czar.

Как-то раз злобный тролль смастерил зеркало, в котором доброе и прекрасное становилось отвратительным и злым. Тролли страшно обрадовались и решили отнести зеркало на небо, чтобы подразнить ангелов, но по пути оно разбилось вдребезги, и осколки разлетелись по всему миру.

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.

Матушка Гусыня — удивительный пример того, как причудливо переплетается фольклор разных стран. Во Франции она известна своими сказками, в Англии и Америке — песенками и потешками для самых маленьких. Именно по мотивам песенок Матушки Гусыни Лаймен Фрэнк Баум, автор "Удивительного волшебника из страны Оз", написал сборник сказок. В них всем известные сюжеты английской поэзии наполняются новыми деталями и подробностями: Хикори, Дикори и Док становятся мышатами, Шаляй-Валяй знакомится с принцессой, Лунный человек спускается на землю и творятся самые настоящие чудеса!

"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...