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Old Peter's Russian tales

by Arthur Michell Ransome, Arthur Ransome & Dmitrii Isidorovich Mitrokhin (Illustrator)

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile
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"Old Peter's Russian Tales" by Arthur Ransome is a collection of Russian folk tales published in 1916. Written in the forest hut of Old Peter the forester, these stories transport readers into the world of Russian peasant folklore. Two orphaned children, Maroosia and Vanya, gather by the fireside to hear their grandfather's enchanting tales—twenty narratives including "The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship." Ransome retells these traditional stories in his own words, creating an enduring classic that bridges Russian folklore and English childhood imagination. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from online-books-page, openlibrary, and project-gutenberg matched “Folk literature”, “folklore”, “mythology”, and 2 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “Tales” in the title, “Folklore” in the description, “Tales” in the description, and 5 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Tales”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Folk literature”· via Open Library
    • “folklore”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “mythology”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “tales”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Tales”· in title

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New York: F. A. Stokes Co., n.d.

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1916Thomas Nelson and sonsEnglish—Public

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  • Illustrators: Mitrokhin, Dmitriĭ Isidorovich
  • Open Library reports 34 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): PR6035 .A63 O4
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: New York: F. A. Stokes Co., n.d.
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