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The Russian Garland
BEING RUSSIAN FOLK TALES: TRANSLATED FROM A COLLECTION OF CHAP-BOOKS MADE IN MOSCOW: EDITED BY ROBERT STEELE AND PICTURED BY J. R. DE ROSCISZEWSKI.
A. M. PHILPOT, LIMITED,
69 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON,
W.C. 1.
The horse grew restive, reared higher than the waving forest.
Page 18.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Foreword | vii |
| Story of Lyubim Tsarevich and the Winged Wolf | 1 |
| Story of the most wonderful and noble Self-Playing Harp | 16 |
| The Seven Brothers Simeon | 29 |
| Story of Ivan, the Peasant’s Son | 39 |
| Story of the Golden Mountain | 50 |
| Iliya of Murom and the Robber Nightingale | 61 |
| The Renowned Hero, Bova Korolevich and the Princess Drushnevna | 68 |
| The Mild Man and his Cantankerous Wife | 117 |
| Story of the Duck with Golden Eggs | 125 |
| Story of Bulat the Brave Companion | 131 |
| Story of Prince Malandrach and the Princess Salikalla | 142 |
| Story of a Shoemaker and his Servant Prituitshkin | 153 |
| Emelyan, the Fool | 166 |
| The Judgment of Shemyaka | 183 |
| Story of Prince Peter with the Golden Keys, and the Princess Magilene | 187 |
| Sila Tsarevich and Ivashka with the White Smock | 194 |
| Story of the Knight Yaroslav Lasarevich and the Princess Anastasia | 202 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| The Horse grew restive, reared higher than the waving forest | Frontispiece |
| Instantly upstarted Lyubim Tsarevich, put on his armour and leapt upon his steed | 4 |
| At length they fell in with a cripple on the road | 64 |
| “Alas! my gracious mother, why have you put me in prison?” | 74 |
| The Judge thought that the bundle was full of roubles | 184 |
| And so saying, he stretched out his hand to take the sword | 226 |
FOREWORD
The special interest of this volume of Russian Folk Tales is that it is a translation from a collection of peasant Chap-books of all sorts made in Moscow about 1830, long before the Censorship had in great measure stopped the growth of popular literature. It is