Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
Russian Fairy Tales.
A CHOICE COLLECTION
—OF—
MUSCOVITE FOLK-LORE.
—BY—
W. R. S. RALSTON, M. A.,
OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM,
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
OF RUSSIA, AUTHOR OF “THE SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN
PEOPLE,” “KRILOF AND HIS FABLES,” ETC.
NEW YORK:
HURST & CO., Publishers,
122 Nassau Street.
The King got on the Eagle’s back. Away they went flying.—Page 131.
To the Memory of
ALEXANDER AFANASIEF
I Dedicate this Book,
TO HIM SO DEEPLY INDEBTED.