russian fairy tales

[...]... EUSSIAN FAIRY TALES RUSSIAN TALES FAIRY SELECTED AND TRANSLATED FROM THE SKAZKI OF POLEVOI BY R NISBET BAIN ILLUSTRATED BY 0 M GERE Bonbon LAWRENCE AND BULLEN 16 HENRIETTA 1892 ST., W.C PI In compliance with current copyright... existence of the Russian Skazld or Mdrchen was first made generally known to the British Public some twenty years ago by Mr W R S Ralston in his Russian Folk Tales That excellent and most volume was, primarily, a treatise on engrossing Slavonic Folk- Lore, illustrated with admirable skill and judgment, by stories, mainly selected from the vast collection of Afanasiev, who did for the Russian what Asbjornsen... the eminent Russian historian and archaeologist, Peter Nikolaevich Polevoi (well known, too, as an and ardent Shaksperian scholar), selected from able the inexhaustible stores of Afanasiev some three dozen of the Skazki most suitable for children, and worked them up into a fairy tale book which was published at St Petersburg in 1874, under the title of Narodnuiya Russkiya Skazld (Popular Russian To... of " place merchant who 1 / a any one work, young man was one in seven hundred Do you want the merchant " ? " ; who was seven hundred times said the then take richer than else B RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES 2 hire from me." "Eight willingly ; twas for no other " reason that I came to the market-place wage do you require?" hundred roubles a day, 1 somewhat dear you lay me down... merchant s son Then he awoke, beat off ; the black crows, looked hither and thither, and asked himself, "Where am I?" The merchant who was one in seven hundred bawled up at him, " On RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES 4 the golden mountain come, take your spade and dig So he digged and digged, throwing it all gold." down below, and the merchant put it on wagons By ; That ll evening he had filled nine... away." " ; haven." The next morning they met went on board the ; me my ship, and sailed There they ate and drank their fill all ran to the at the haven, to the island one whole day, RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES 6 and the next day they got up and went towards the the merchant golden mountain They arrived there, who was one in seven Come now, " o-lass o Stop, ought to drink the own drink."... stories, neither injured their simple texture nor overlaid the original pattern It is from the first Russian edition of M Polevoi s book that the following selection has been made With the which of " Morozko" a variant single exception of will be familiar to those who know Mr volume, none of these tales has seen the for though both light in an English dress before Ralston arid Polevoi drew, for... To face page 9 ,, 103 THE PRINCESS AND THE CUNNING WITCH ,, 160 ,, 198 TSAREVNA LOVELINESS INEXHAUSTIBLE THE DAMSEL WENT ON FURTHER, AND THE ROAD GREW LIGHTER AND LIGHTER THE SAGE DAMSEL 224 RUSSIAN FAIEY TALES THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN THERE was once upon a time a merchant s son who To such a pass squandered and wasted all his goods So did he come at last that he had nothing to eat lie seized a spade,... e any one all remained standing in the market work, young man was one in seven hundred Do you want the merchant else " said the ? " ; who was seven hundred times then take richer than RUSSIAN FAIEY TALES THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN THERE was once upon a time a merchant s son who To such a pass all his goods squandered and wasted did he lie come at last that he seized a spade, went out began waiting... their selections naturally proved be different so to also As to to the merits of these Skazki, they must be left It is a significant fact, speak for themselves however, that all those familiar with the Russian scholars who are Skazki and the equally German Marchen, unhesitatingly give the palm, both for fun and fancy, to the former R N B CONTENTS PAGE THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN 1 THE FLYING SHIP 8 . x0 y0 w1 h1" alt=""