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Folk Tales from the Russian

Name: Folk Tales from the Russian
Author: Kalamatiano De Blumenthal

by Kalamatiano De Blumenthal, Verra Xenophontovna

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Bob Jones, Frank van Drogen, Tamiko I. Camacho and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Release date

2004-07-08

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Folklore -- Russia Tales -- Russia

About the authors

Kalamatiano De Blumenthal

A reteller of Russian folk tales, she brought old Slavic stories to English-speaking children in a warm, inviting form. Her best-known book, first published in 1903, gathers magic, mischief, and memorable figures like Baba Yaga and Father Frost.

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Verra Xenophontovna

A Russian-born storyteller who retold traditional tales for English-speaking children, she is best known for Folk Tales from the Russian, first published in 1903. Her work helped bring old Slavic legends and nursery-story traditions to new readers at a moment when she believed that oral folklore was beginning to fade.

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