Russian fairy tales with illustrations by Ivan Bilibin. Gift book bound in leather

Seventeen Russian fairy tales and six epics with familiar heroes

Russian fairy tales and epics are the unchangeable and deep foundation on which entire generations of our compatriots were brought up in childhood and will be brought up for a long time to come. They tell about the extraordinary and interesting adventures of fairy-tale heroes, teach kindness and hard work.

This book contains seventeen classic Russian fairy tales and six epics. Among them are stories about Ivan Tsarevich, the frog princess, the gray wolf, Vasilisa the beautiful, Ilya Muromets and many other well-recognized characters. They almost always appear in any collections of Russian fairy tales. The peculiarity of this publication is different. All the illustrations in it are made by such a recognized virtuoso of ornament and drawing, a wonderful master of color, a great illustrator and book designer as Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin. They give this book a unique flavor, because it is not an exaggeration to say that we imagine the wonderful world of Russian fairy tales and its characters in many ways thanks to the unique drawings of this talented artist.