Russian Myths

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

"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...

7 сказок в стихах и 7 колыбельных песен (на каждый день недели) в исполнении Натальи Варлей. Содержание: 1. Вступление, 2. Понедельник. Воробей, 3. Вторник. Мартышка, 4. Среда. Медведь, 5. Четверг. Лиса, 6. Пятница. Тигр, 7. Суббота. Бегемот, 8. Воскресенье. Слон. Автор стихов и музыки: Марк Фримштейн. Аранжировка: Андрей Горбачев.

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.

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.

В сборник вошли сказки знаменитого русского писателя Михаила Салтыкова-Щедрина: Бедный волк ; Дикий помещик ; Повесть о том, как один мужик двух генералов прокормил ; Карась-идеалист ; Медведь на воеводстве ; Премудрый пискарь ; Самоотверженный заяц.

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.

Без его произведений немыслимо детство каждого человека. Почти все мы читали сказки Андерсена или видели мультфильмы и художественные фильмы по их мотивам. Не случайно, одна из самых престижных международных премий за лучшую детскую книгу носит имя Ганса Христиана Андерсена.

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.