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OLD PETER’S RUSSIAN TALES 


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by Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) 


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Best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books, 
Arthur Ransome presents here a selection of stories based on Russian 
folklore. The author served during WWI and the Russian Revolution as a 
correspondent for the Daily News and the Manchester Guardian, and later 
married Evgenia Shvelpina, Trotsky’s secretary. He later retired form 
journalism and began writing his popular children’s books. (Wikipedia) 


Total running time: 7:41:56 


The Tale of the Silver Saucer and the Transparent Apple — Sadko 
Frost — The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship 
Baba Yaga -- The Little Daughter of the Snow 
Prince Ivan, the Witch Baby, and the Little Sister of the Sun 
The Stolen Turnips, the Magic Tablecloth, the Sneezing Goat and the 
Wooden Whistle — Little Master Misery — A Chapter of Fish 
The Golden Fish — Who Lived in the Skull — Alenoushka and her Brother 
The Fire-Bird, The Horse of Power and the Princess Vasilissa 

The Hunter and his Wife — The Three Men of Power 


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Evening, Midnight and Sunrise 
Salt — The Christening in the Village 


Cover design by Kathryn Delaney, Illustration of Princess Vasilissa by Ivan Bilibin (1899) 


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