The Greatest Russian Fairy Tales & Fables (With Original Illustrations)
Baba Yaga, Enchanted Tsarevnas, Animal Fables, and Slavic Folk MagicBy Arthur Ransome, Valery Carrick, W. R. S. Ralston, Nisbat Bain
Length35h 11m
About this audiobook
The Greatest Russian Fairy Tales & Fables gathers wonder tales, animal fables, heroic encounters, and household marvels from the capacious Russian oral tradition. Its pages move between crisp moral anecdote and richly episodic enchantment, where witches, tsars, clever peasants, and talking creatures test the boundaries between social order and imaginative freedom. Original illustrations deepen the volume's appeal, giving visual form to recurring figures and the dramatic landscapes of Slavic folklore. The collection brings together translators, adaptors, and folkloric mediators whose work helped make Russian popular tradition legible to English-language readers. Arthur Ransome's literary sensitivity, Valery Carrick's pictorial imagination, W. R. S. Ralston's foundational interest in Russian folklore, and Nisbet Bain's linguistic and cultural expertise represent complementary approaches to preservation and retelling. Their combined presence situates the book within the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fascination with comparative folklore, national storytelling, and the transmission of oral culture into print. Recommended for students of folklore, children's literature, Russian culture, and comparative mythology, this volume offers an unusually broad encounter with a living narrative heritage. Readers will find educational context, stylistic variety, and a productive dialogue between translation, illustration, fable, and fairy tale in a single inviting anthology.
Audiobook details
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GenreFairy Tales and Folklore, Children's Literature
Length35 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Greatest Russian Fairytales & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
2The Greatest Russian Fairy Tales & Fables (With Original Illustrations)
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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