Russian Fairy Tales: "Illustrated 18 Short Fairy Tales for Children"

by Arthur Ransome, Boris Zvorykin (Illustrator)

Overview

RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES "Illustrated 18 Short Fairy Tales for Children"

1. The Magic Swan Geese

2. The Tale of Tsar Saltan

3. Emelya and the Pike

4. The Frog Tsarevna

5. Morozko

6. Twelve Months

7. Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf

8. Little Snow Girl (Snegurochka)

9. The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka)

10. Kolobok Dough-Boy

11. Sadko

12. Ruslan and Ludmila

13. Golden Cockerel

14. The Scarlet Flower

15. The Humpbacked Little Pony

16. The Tale of the Fisherman and the Golden Fish

17. The Tale of the Dead (Sleeping) Princess and the Seven Knights

18. Sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9786257959445
Publisher:	E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Publication date:	01/01/1916
Pages:	70
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)
Age Range:	3 - 8 Years

About the Author

Ransome was the son of Cyril Ransome (1851-1897) and his wife Edith née Boulton (1862-1944). Arthur was the eldest of four children: he had two sisters Cecily and Joyce, and a brother Geoffrey who was killed in the First World War in 1918. Ransome was born in Leeds; the house at 6 Ash Grove, in the Hyde Park area and has a blue plaque beside the door commemorating his birthplace. Ransome's father was professor of history at Yorkshire College, Leeds (now the University of Leeds). The family regularly holidayed at Nibthwaite in the Lake District, and he was carried up to the top of Coniston Old Man as an infant. His father's premature death in 1897 had a lasting effect on him. His mother Edith did not want him to abandon his studies for writing, but was later supportive of his books. She urged him to publish The Picts and the Martyrs in 1943, although his second wife Evgenia hated it; Genia was often discouraging about his books while he was writing them.

Table of Contents

1. The Magic Swan Geese

2. The Tale of Tsar Saltan

3. Emelya and the Pike

4. The Frog Tsarevna

5. Morozko

6. Twelve Months

7. Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf

8. Little Snow Girl (Snegurochka)

9. The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka)

10. Kolobok Dough-Boy

11. Sadko

12. Ruslan and Ludmila

13. Golden Cockerel

14. The Scarlet Flower

15. The Humpbacked Little Pony

16. The Tale of the Fisherman and the Golden Fish

17. The Tale of the Dead (Sleeping) Princess and the Seven Knights

18. Sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka

Editorial Reviews

The Tale of Tsar Saltan is a poem by Alexander Pushkin:

Three fair maidens, late one night,

Sat and spun by candlelight.

"Were our tsar to marry me,"

Said the eldest of the three,

"I would cook and I would bake -

Oh, what royal feasts I'd make."

Said the second of the three:

"Were our tsar to marry me,

I would weave a cloth of gold

Fair and wondrous to behold."

But the youngest of the three

Murmured: "If he married me -

I would give our tsar an heir

Handsome, brave, beyond compare."

- Russian Fairy Tales

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