Arthur Ransome & Boris Zvorykin 
Russian Fairy Tales 
‘Illustrated 18 Short Fairy Tales for Children’

RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES ‘Illustrated 18 Short Fairy Tales for Children’1. The Magic Swan Geese2. The Tale of Tsar Saltan3. Emelya and the Pike4. The Frog Tsarevna5. Morozko6. Twelve Months7. Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf8. Little Snow Girl (Snegurochka)9. The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka)10. Kolobok Dough-Boy11. Sadko12. Ruslan and Ludmila13. Golden Cockerel14. The Scarlet Flower15. The Humpbacked Little Pony16. The Tale of the Fisherman and the Golden Fish17. The Tale of the Dead (Sleeping) Princess and the Seven Knights18. Sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka

Circa l’autore

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