Verra Xenophontovna

Folk Tales from the Russian Verra Xenophontovna

In Russia, as elsewhere in the world, folklore is rapidly scattering before the practical spirit of modern progress. The traveling peasant bard or storyteller, and the devoted "nyanya", the beloved nurse of many a generation, are rapidly dying out, and with them, the tales and legends, the last echoes of a nation's early joys and sufferings, hopes, and fears, are passing away. The student of folk-lore knows that the time has come when haste is needed to catch these vanishing stories and songs of the nation's youth and to preserve them for the delight of future generations. In sending forth the stories in the present volume, all of which thankfully captured and down in print in this volume. It was the hope of the compiler that they may enable Western children to share with the children of Russia the pleasure of glancing into the magic world of the old Slavic nation. In this volume, you will find the stories of: The Tsarevna Frog Seven Simeons The Language Of The Birds Ivanoushka The Simpleton Woe Bogotir Baba Yaga Dimian The Peasant The Golden Mountain Father Frost.