Greatest Russian Fairytales & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
Firebirds, Baba Yaga, Heroic Legends, and Enchanted Tales from Slavic FolkloreBy Valery Carrick, W. R. S. Ralston, Nisbat Bain, Arthur Ransome
Length35h 12m
About this audiobook
Greatest Russian Fairytales & Legends (Illustrated Edition) gathers a capacious body of wonder tales, heroic legends, animal fables, and supernatural narratives shaped by Russia's oral traditions. Moving between peasant hearth, enchanted forest, and princely court, the collection displays the recurrent figures and motifs of Slavic folklore—impossible tasks, transformative journeys, cunning survivors, and powers both beneficent and threatening. Its varied retellings preserve the folktale's direct dramatic energy while inviting attention to the visual and textual mediation through which oral culture reaches print. The volume brings together Valery Carrick, W. R. S. Ralston, Nisbat Bain, and Arthur Ransome, figures associated with the translation, adaptation, illustration, and popular circulation of Russian traditional literature for English-language readers. Their contributions belong to the broader nineteenth- and early twentieth-century encounter between folklore scholarship and literary retelling, when collectors and translators treated traditional narratives as vital records of national imagination. Read collectively, their versions reveal both the durability of Russian story patterns and the interpretive choices involved in presenting them across languages and audiences. Recommended for students of folklore, mythology, translation, and children's literature, this illustrated anthology offers an unusually rich entrance into Russian narrative tradition. Readers will find not a single authoritative voice, but a productive dialogue among tellings, images, and cultural frames, rewarding both casual enjoyment and sustained comparative study.
Audiobook details
GenreFairy Tales and Folklore, Children's Literature
Length35 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 1, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The King of the Golden River (Illustrated) (Annotated)
2Greatest Russian Fairytales & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
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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