A Mountain of Gems - Fairy-Tales of the Peoples of the Soviet Land - Illustrated by V. Minayev

Irina Zheleznova, V. Minayev

• Publisher: Pook Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473391888
• Print ISBN:
  9781447477990
  9781447478348
• Subtopic: Folklore & Mythology

Open the book, and you will find yourselves in a world of magic. None of your old friends will be there -neither Jack the Giant Killer, nor Little Red Riding Hood, nor Cinderella or any of the others. Instead, together with Ivan the Peasant's Son you will cross swords with Chudo-Yudo, the fire-breathing monster; follow Pokati-Goroshek the Rolling Pea into the underground kingdom and return from there on the back of an eagle; marvel at the cleverness of Zarniyar who outwitted the sly and cruel Shah; be filled with admiration at Boroldoi-Mergen, the brave hunter of the Altai Mountains who risked the life of his own son in order to save his people; delight in the resourcefulness of a simple weaver who surpassed in wisdom the wisest councillors of the tsar. A Mountain of Gems – Fairy-Tales of the Peoples of the Soviet Land – Illustrated by Vladimir Minayev is a collection of many fairy tales rendered into English from Russia, The Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Chukchi. The Soviet Union was a huge country, the largest in the world. Its neighbors were Alaska in the East and Scandinavia in the West. In the south it stretched as far as the Caucasus and Pamir mountain ranges, and in the North reached out into the Arctic Ocean. And each of the peoples of the former Soviet Union has its own fairytales. Pook Press celebrates the great 'Golden Age of Illustration' in children's classics and fairy tales - a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.

Table of contents

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• From the Translator
• The Frog Tsarevna. A Russian Fairy-Tale
• Axe Porridge. A Russian Fairy-Tale
• Chestnut-Grey. A Russian Fairy-Tale
• Ivan the Peasant’s Son and the Three Chudo-Yudos. A Russian Fairy-Tale
• A Trial Like No Other. A Russian Fairy-Tale
• Pokati-Goroshek. A Ukrainian Fairy-Tale
• Good and Evil. A Ukrainian Fairy-Tale
• The Wolf, The Dog and The Cat. A Ukranian Fairy-Tale
• How a Muzhik Dined with the Haughty Lord. A Ukrainian Fairy-Tale
• The Magic Fiddle. A Byelorussian Fairy-Tale
• Why the Badger and the Fox Live in Holes. A Byelorussian Fairy-Tale
• How Vasil Vanquished the Dragon. A Byelorussian Fairy-Tale
• Pilipka. A Byelorussian Fairy-Tale
• Old Frost and Young Frost. A Lithuanian Fairy-Tale
• How a Lord was Turned Into a Horse. A Latvian Fairy-Tale
• To Each his Deserts. An Estonian Fairy-Tale
• Hiysi’s Millstone. A Karelian Fairy-Tale
• How Three Brothers Found Their Father’s Treasure. A Moldavian Fairy-Tale
• Basil Fet-Frumos and Ilana Cosinzana, Sister of the Sun. A Moldavian Fairy-Tale
• The Story of Zarniyar Who Had All Her Wits About Her. An Azerbaijan Fairy-Tale
• Sheidullah the Loafer. An Azerbaijan Fairy-Tale
• Anait. An Armenian Fairy-Tale
• The Tsar and the Weaver. An Armenian Fairy-Tale
• Deer-Child and Yelena the Beautiful. A Georgian Fairy-Tale
• The Lion and the Hare. A Georgian Fairy-Tale
• A Lesson in Wisdom. A Georgian Fairy-Tale
• Altyn-Saka the Goden Knucklebone. A Bashkir Fairy-Tale
• Tsarkin Khan and the Archer. A Kalmyk Fairy-Tale
• A Mountain of Gems. A Turkmen Fairy-Tale
• The Clever Brothers. An Uzbek Fairy-Tale
• The Greedy Kazi. A Tajik Fairy-Tale
• Boroldoi-Mergen and his Brave Son. A Fairy-Tale from the Altai
• Which is the Biggest? A Kirghiz Fairy-Tale
• Aldar-Kose and Shigai-Bai. A Kazakh Fairy-Tale
• The Fern Girl. A Yakut Fairy-Tale
• The Golden Cup. A Buryat Fairy-Tale
• Kotura, Lord of the Winds. A Nenets Fairy-Tale
• The Girl and the Moon Man. A Chukchi Fairy-Tale