Peasants like everywhere were innocent and being exploited by local rich landlords. It could be Beautiful girl Yelna or Wise Vasilisa, the princesses or brown wolf or brown horse or Feniest the Falcon or sometimes even a kind witch named Baba Yaga. There were always some godly magic powered people or animal to help grief stricken hero or heroin of the story. That amazing world had every color hidden inside. Few pages a day, kept mind of a reader like me engaged for weeks and floating with the little prince who is struggling hard to get his kingdom back from the clutches of lusty cruel Czar. Entering those worlds of imagination was not at all difficult as like today. That was amazing world, when there was no tension or worries or targets to be achieved. I still remember the fantasies I used to get dragged in while reading this book in my childhood. Some of the stories are one page long and some are 10-15 pages long as one keep flipping the pages. These stories are part of Russian culture since generations and carry the same world of magic, devils, angles, beautiful princess and poor peasants as our Indian folk tales do as our mom or grandma used to tell us in our childhood. I never get tired of books, movies or music I like, and can read, watch or listen over and over again for countless times.įirst published in 1960, this 373 pages book has got collection of 33 short and long Russian folk tales translated in Hindi. Since then I must have read this book not less than 100 times. ‘Russi Lok Kathayen’ (Russian Folk Tales), I think I received this book as prize from my school around 22 years back in 1985 when I was in 6th standard. While shuffling my small personal library at home, a very old thick book caught my eye.
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