Russian Myths

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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.

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.

Сказка о том, как один выдумщик небылиц думал, что равного ему нет на белом свете. Но на деле оказалось всё совсем не так, как он себе представлял.

In 1913, Arthur Ransome traveled to Russia to explore Russian folklore. The result of his studies was the publication of retellings (rather than translations) of a number of stories, including The Soldier and Death, which first appeared in 1920.

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.

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.

The Russian fairy tale about Tsarevich Ivan and his wife, Vasilisa the Wise, who was enchanted to be a frog, was recorded by the renowned folklorist Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev (1826–1871), who collected and published more than 600 Russian folk tales in the middle 19th century.

Vasilisa the Beautiful is a Russian fairy tale collected by a Russian poet, writer, editor, ethnographer and translator Alexander Afanasyev. It tells the tale of a beautiful girl named Vasilisa. When her mother dies, she gives her a magic doll. Her father remarries, and she gains an evil stepmother and two stepsisters. Despite the stepmother's attempts to diminish Vasilisa's beauty, she continues to grow more beautiful.

Marya Morevna is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki. Marya was a warrior queen who ruled a small kingdom and for some 10 years, kept Koschei the Deathless a captive in her castle's tower. The character Koschei is an evil immortal man who menaces young women with his magic.She fell in love with Ivan Tsarevitch, and while she was away on a campaign, he accidentally released Koschei. The evil wizard then abducted the queen and Ivan Tsarevitch was forced to find some way to kill him. Ivan was successful and was reunited with Marya.

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.

Знаменитые немецкие филологи-фольклористы братья Гримм, Якоб (1785 - 1863) и Вильгельм (1786 - 1859) до сих пор остаются одними из самых известных сказочников планеты.