This section is a series of Russian Fairy Tales which I have translated.
Note: I am really trying to keep this website family safe. However, I am finding it very difficult to find fairy tales to put on this page which are not going to be offensive to someone. I guess the only thing I can do if I wish to include fairy tales on these pages, is to put a note on the ones which someone may find unsuitable. Most of the very traditional ones are the ones which some people now may object to. I am also remembering that when I was a child, I read my fairytales in books which were printed a century and more ago, and they neither gave me nightmares, nor did they turn me into an ax murderer. (And I can't read Steven King without getting nightmares).
The first one is a Fairy Tale called "Masha and the Bear".
The second one is a fable called "The Crow and the Crayfish".
The next story, the Snow Maiden is very dear to my heart. My shop was called Snyegurochka, (Snow Maiden in Russian), because of a little book of the same name sent to me by the lady who did the shop with me. It is also an opera by Rimsky-Korsakov.
The next tale is called "Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf". It is a very traditional fairy tale, but if you may not want to read it to young children, since Ivan was not really a very admirable character. His gains, as in most of the old fairy tales were through lying and trickery. Also, there is a bit of killing, (although I didn't translate it as graphically as it was in most of my books),which is also not any different than any other version of old fairy tales. Since many people are very sensitive to the old style fairy tales, I used four different versions for my translations to make it as inoffensive as possible. The story is important, because it contains so many of the elements and characters which appear over and over again in Russian Fairy tales.
The next Fairy Tale is called How the Fox Learned to Fly
The next Fairy Tale is called The Wolf and the Nanny Goat. I have used a very short and basic version of this fairy tale so it won't be offensive to anyone. I also have changed it, because I know that if I had left it the way it was, with the wolf eating the baby goats I would have received lots of nasty email. I also know that there are a lot of people who would have been vey upset at the mother goat ripping open the stomach of the wolf, and all the babies jumping out safe and sound. (It's funny, but that didn't bother me a bit when I was a child and the wolf ate Red Riding Hood's Grandmother, and the woodsman chopped the wolf with his axe, and the grandmother jumped out. This is sort of like changing history, but I guess adults are a lot more sensitive to these things than children are).
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