Russian Fairy

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.

Russian Folk Fairy Tales is a wonderful collection of the most famous Russian fairy tales. The "Russian skazki" ("skazatz" means to tell) are the mass of folk-tales distributed widely throughout all the Russias. Handed down, by constant repetition, from generation to generation, a possession common to peasant's hut and Prince's palace from a time when history did not exist, they are to-day, from Archangel to the Black Sea, and from Siberia to the Baltic, almost as much a part of the life of the people as the language itself.

Russian stories hold a special place in the hearts of fairy tales fans. Unforgettable characters like Baba Yaga and the Fire-Bird have captured imaginations for generations. In this collection, listeners are sure to find old favorites and discover something new.

Skazki Aleksandra Sergeevicha Pushkina: Skazka o care Saltane, Skazka o Zolotom Petushke, Skazka o Mertvoj Carevne i o semi bogatyrjah, Skazka o pope i o rabotnike ego Balde, Skazka o Rybake i rybke v ispolnenii narodnoj artistki RF Klary Novikovoj.

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.

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.

'The Wise Princess' is a take on the traditional Russian fairy tale of the frog princess. Three princes are instructed by their father, the king, to fire their arrows at random and marry whichever maidens they land near to. The youngest son's arrow lands in a marsh next to a frog. But the frog turns out to be a wise princess in disguise - and when the prince sees the princess in her true form he falls in love with her. One night when the princess is not wearing her frog skin, the princes takes it and burns it. 

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.

"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.

7 сказок в стихах и 7 колыбельных песен (на каждый день недели) в исполнении Натальи Варлей. Содержание: 1. Вступление, 2. Понедельник. Воробей, 3. Вторник. Мартышка, 4. Среда. Медведь, 5. Четверг. Лиса, 6. Пятница. Тигр, 7. Суббота. Бегемот, 8. Воскресенье. Слон. Автор стихов и музыки: Марк Фримштейн. Аранжировка: Андрей Горбачев.

An American TV actress adopts a little Russian girl in St. Petersburg in 1994. The actress, Molly McKay, arrives to find a Russia struggling to become a free market democracy. She also discovers that the TV show she starred in back in the ‘80s in the U.S. is now a big hit in Russia, complicating an already harrowing adoption journey. Then there are the two handsome princes, one Russian, one American, and all the other fairytale characters who help or hinder My Russian Clementine.

Pushkin began writing his first major work, Ruslan and Ludmila (1820), a kind of fairy story in verse, in 1817. It was based on Russian folktales told by his old nurse Arina Rodionovna. "On seashore far a green oak towers/ And to it with a gold chain bound/ A learned cat whiles away the hours/ By walking slowly round and round. To right he walks, and sings a ditty; To left he walks, and tells a tale...." Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

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.

This small volume completes the translation of Karel Erben’s A Hundred Genuine Popular Slavonie Fairy Stories. The first volume, Segnius Irritant, maps out, so to say, the primitive folklore weather myth of which nearly the whole of the succeeding 92 stories are wholly or in part reproductions.

Humayun Ahmed is one of the most popular novel writers in Bangladesh. Undoubtedly, Himu is one of his greatest creations. This book is about Himu's love with an angel from Russia. Hope you will enjoy the audiobook.

Знаменитые поэты разных стран и эпох в переводах поэтов Серебряного века.

Вы когда-нибудь слышали о Красной Шапочке? Тогда вы наверняка знаете, что она пошла проведать свою больную бабушку, прихватив с собой еду и вино. Но в лесу она встретила серого волка.

Что такое храбрость? Что требуется, чтобы быть храбрым? О чём свидетельствует храбрость? Следите за приключениями любимых героев из сказок Ганса Христиана Андерсена и узнайте, что значит храбрость для них. Сборник для любознательных и чутких читателей, как юных, так и взрослых.

Волшебные сказки для детей от 7 до 12 лет. Сказка о том, как три красавицы-сестры смогли удивить своей историей самого шаха и его визиря и помогли освободить от колдовства троих прекрасных принцев и двух своих сестёр.

Come in and sample an entirely different sort of fairy tale - coming to you from a faraway land and written by authors of whom you have never heard.