Greatest Russian Fairytales & Fables (Illustrated)
Illustrated Tales of Baba Yaga, the Firebird, Enchanted Forests, and Clever BeastsBy Valery Carrick, W. R. S. Ralston, Nisbat Bain, Arthur Ransome
Length35h 13m
About this audiobook
Greatest Russian Fairytales & Fables (Illustrated) gathers a rich body of Russian wonder tales, animal fables, comic narratives, and moral exempla, presenting a literary world shaped by enchantment, peasant wit, peril, and metamorphosis. Its varied prose registers—from folkloric repetition and elemental simplicity to more literary retelling—reveal how oral tradition can preserve both communal memory and imaginative excess. Tales of magical quests, uncanny creatures, clever animals, and domestic reversals stand alongside illustrations that heighten the collection's visual and cultural appeal. The volume draws together translators, collectors, adapters, and illustrators associated with the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century English-language reception of Russian folklore. Valery Carrick's artwork, W. R. S. Ralston's foundational folkloric mediation, Nisbet Bain's translations, and Arthur Ransome's engagement with Russian culture collectively situate these narratives within a wider movement to document, interpret, and circulate Slavic oral traditions. Their differing approaches preserve the tensions between ethnographic record, children's literature, and artistic recreation. Recommended for students of folklore, comparative literature, and fairy-tale studies, this anthology offers an inviting route into Russia's narrative traditions. Readers will find an illuminating multiplicity of voices, styles, and editorial perspectives, as well as a sustained dialogue between oral inheritance, translation, and illustration.
Audiobook details
GenreFairy Tales and Folklore, Literary Classics
Length35 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 1, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Red Fairy Book (Annotated)
2Greatest Russian Fairytales & Fables (Illustrated)
3Russian Picture Fables for the Little Ones:
4THE COCK AND THE BEAN
5THE GOAT AND THE RAM
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6THE HUNGRY WOLF
7THE PEASANT AND THE BEAR
8THE DOG AND THE COCK
9KING FROST
10THE BEAR'S PAW
11THE BEAR AND THE OLD MAN'S DAUGHTERS
12THE STRAW OX
13THE FOX AND THE BLACKBIRD
14The Fairy-Book:
15THE FROG PRINCESS
16SNEGOROTCHKA
17IVAN AND THE CHESTNUT HORSE
18BASHTCHELIK (OR, REAL STEEL)
19THE FIRE BIRD
20The Russian Garland: Folk Tales
21STORY OF LYUBIM TSAREVICH AND THE WINGED WOLF
22STORY OF THE MOST WONDERFUL AND NOBLE SELF-PLAYING HARP
23THE SEVEN BROTHERS SIMEON
24STORY OF IVAN, THE PEASANT’S SON
25STORY OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN
26ILIYA OF MUROM AND THE ROBBER NIGHTINGALE
27THE RENOWNED HERO, BOVA KOROLEVICH, AND THE PRINCESS DRUSHNEVNA
28THE MILD MAN AND HIS CANTANKEROUS WIFE
29STORY OF THE DUCK WITH GOLDEN EGGS
30STORY OF BULAT THE BRAVE COMPANION
31STORY OF PRINCE MALANDRACH AND THE PRINCESS SALIKALLA
32STORY OF A SHOEMAKER AND HIS SERVANT PRITUITSHKIN
33EMELYAN, THE FOOL
34THE JUDGMENT OF SHEMYAKA
35STORY OF PRINCE PETER WITH THE GOLDEN KEYS, AND THE PRINCESS MAGILENE
36SILA TSAREVICH AND IVASHKA WITH THE WHITE SMOCK
37STORY OF THE KNIGHT YAROSLAV LASAREVICH AND THE PRINCESS ANASTASIA
38Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi
39PREFACE
40THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN
41MOROZKO1
42THE FLYING SHIP
43THE MUZHICHEK1-AS-BIG-AS-YOUR-THUMB-WITH-MOUSTACHES-SEVEN-VERSTS2-LONG
44THE STORY OF THE TSAREVICH IVAN, AND OF THE HARP THAT HARPED WITHOUT A HARPER
45THE STORY OF GORE-GORINSKOE1
46GO I KNOW NOT WHITHER—FETCH I KNOW NOT WHAT
47KUZ’MA SKOROBOGATY1
48THE TSAREVNA LOVELINESS-INEXHAUSTIBLE
49VERLIOKA
50THE FROG-TSAREVNA
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