Russian Fairy Tales from the Skazki of Polevoi

Introductory material

R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain translation

The Golden Mountain Frontispiece.

Morosko To face page 9

The Tsarevna Loveliness-Inexhaustible To face page 103

The Princess and the Cunning Witch To face page 160

The Damsel Went on Further, and the Road Grew Lighter and Lighter To face page 198

The Sage Damsel To face page 224

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · I.e. the merchant who was seven hundred times richer than any one else.Note 2 · 1 rouble = about 3s. 4d.Note 3 · There was once upon a time a merchant’s son who squandered and wasted all his goods. To such a pass did he come at last that he had nothing

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