Introduction 6
The Fairy Tales
Twelve Months 9
The Scarlet Flower 13
Emelya and the Magic Pik 19
The Princess and the Seven Bogatyrs 22
Silver Hoof 28
The Seven Semeons 32
Fenist the Falcon 36
The Flying Ship 42
The Tale of the Young Guard and the Merchant Kalashnikov 46
Sivka-Burka 50
Maria Morevna 54
The Three Kingdoms 60
Sleeping Beauty 60
The Storytellers
The Boyan, The Scirbes 61
Alexander Pushkin 61
The Defenders of Ancient Rus
The Mighty Bogatyrs, The Peasant Heros, The Folk Heros
Ilya Murometz,Dobrinya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich 62
Solovey Budimirovich 66
Volkh Vseslavevich 67
Nikita Kozhemyaka 67
Churillo Plenkov 68
Mikula Selyaninovich 68
Stepan Razin 69
The Rulers
Oleg the Wise 70
Peter the Great 70
Alexander Nevsky 71
Dimitry Donskoy 71
Boris Godunov 72
Treasures from the Four Villages
Palekh 73
Mstera 77
Fedoskino 78
Kholui 80