Russian Myths

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.

Get ready to hop on a mythical time machine and journey to the icy forests, grand palaces, and enchanted lands of Russia. This book is your gateway to a magical world filled with talking wolves, firebirds with glowing feathers, and the mysterious, ever-tricky Baba Yaga. Perfect for listeners aged 7–12 (and adventurous adults!), this beautifully written collection of Russian fairy tales and mythology for kids is designed to spark the imagination, teach valuable lessons, and introduce young minds to the rich tapestry of Russian culture, legends, and traditional folk 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.

Russkaja narodnaja skazka - proizvedenie ustnogo tvorchestva russkogo naroda, odin iz vidov fol'klornoj prozy. V russkih skazkah russkij narod pytalsja vyskazat' svoe nacional'noe mirooshhushhenie, nastavit' svoih detej v pervobytnoj, no glubokoj zhiznennoj mudrosti, - razreshaja lezhavshie na ego serdce zhiznennye, nravstvennye, semejnye, bytovye i gosudarstvennye voprosy.

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.

The book contains the myths about the "Heroes" set out on the works of Hesiod, Ovid, Aeschylus, Homer, Moschus, Sophocles, Pausanias, Pindar, Euripides.

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.

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.

Генрих Сапгир написал ещё увлекательные сказки. Некоторые из них вошли в книгу "Сказки о Дракончике и другие истории". Дракончик превращается в мороженое, от Овечки Почемучки убегает даже Серый Волк, а выводок утюжат способен преобразить не только жизнь Мишки, но и целый мир! Для младшего школьного возраста.

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.

Лев Николаевич Толстой в сказках и баснях - это строгие и точные описания, которые всегда пользовались и будут пользоваться высоким спросом у любителей русской литературы. Сказки и басни Толстого заворожат любого, ну а дети будут перечитывать дивные рассказы снова и снова.

"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.

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.

"Alisa v Strane Chudes" - skazka, napisannaja anglijskim matematikom, pojetom i pisatelem Charl'zom Ljutvidzhom Dodzhsonom pod psevdonimom L'juis Kjerroll i izdannaja v 1865 godu. V nej rasskazyvaetsja o devochke po imeni Alisa, kotoraja popadaet skvoz' krolich'ju noru v voobrazhaemyj mir, naseljonnyj strannymi antropomorfnymi sushhestvami.

"Alenushkiny skazki" - sbornik skazok Dmitrija Narkisovicha Mamina-Sibirjaka - russkogo prozaika i dramaturga. Vesjolye i dobrye skazki, kotorye rasskazyvaet Aljonushke na noch' ljubjashhij papa.

Зимой мир становится другим - белым, неподвижным, холодным. Кругом сугробы и лёд, а там, где росли яблоки, теперь растёт снег. Только всего этого Муми-троллю знать не полагается. Потому что с ноября по апрель все порядочные муми-тролли спят и видят сны. Но так уж вышло, что этой зимой Муми-тролль проснулся и не смог обратно заснуть.

Все сказки кончаются свадьбой. А мои приключения ею начинаются.

Izdanie soderzhit muzykal'no-literaturnuju kompoziciju po znamenitoj skazke russkogo pisatelja Petra Pavlovicha Ershova (1815-1869) "Konjok-gorbunok". Glavnye personazhi skazki - krest'janskij syn Ivanushka-durachok i ego vernyj drug volshebnyj Konjok-Gorbunok, perehitrivshie glupogo i zhadnogo carja.

Once there was a woman who had both a daughter of her own, whom she loved, and a stepdaughter, whom she hated. One day, the woman ordered her husband to take her stepdaughter out into the winter fields and leave her there to die, and he obeyed. Morozko finds her there; she is polite and kind to him, so he gives her a chest full of beautiful things and fine garments.

Izdanie soderzhit zamechatel'nyj rasskaz o zhivotnyh velikogo anglijskogo pisatelja - prozaika i pojeta, laureata Nobelevskoj premii po literature (1907) Dzhozefa Red'jarda Kiplinga (1865-1936). Jetot rasskaz vhodit v znamenityj sbornik "Kniga Dzhunglej" (1894 g). "Malen'kij Tumai" - istorija slona Kala Naga i ego pogonshhika malen'kogo Tumai. Istorija preodolenija sebja, svoego straha, istorija stanovlenija haraktera, istorija vozniknovenija druzhby mezhdu slonom i chelovekom...