Russian folk tales and epics

Russian folk tales and epics are an integral part of our culture.

The collection includes well -known fairy tales about animals from childhood, magical and household Russian folk tales: “Fox and Crane”, “Cat, Rooster and Rooster Fox ”,“ Winter of the Beasts ”,“ Tsarevna-Snow ”,“ Finist is a clear falcon ”,“ Flying ship ”,“ Seven Simeons ”,“ Porridge from the ax ”and others. In the difference from fairy tales, where the plot and heroes - Fiction, epics are based on real events. That is why epics make it possible to plunge into the extraordinary poetic world of antiquity. The epics (or as they were previously called “antiquity”) were composed in distant times, and they began to record them only at the end of the 18th century.

The collection includes the epics of the “Kyiv cycle” - about Prince Vladimir, about the heroes - the defenders of the land of the Russian Ilya Muromets, Alyosha Popovich, Dobryne Nikitich: “Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale Robber”, “Dobrynya and Alyosha”, “ The feat of the youth of the Kyivian and the trick of the governor. " And also - the epics of the Novgorod cycle. Their heroes are trading Posad people: “Volga and Mikula Selyaninovich”, “Sadko” and others.