Once upon a time, a poor old man living next to the sea caught a golden fish in his net. When he set it free, the fish promised to grant him whatever he wanted. The old man required little, but his g...

Tsar Saltan overhears three sisters who are confiding to each other their views on the subject of happiness. The youngest, having declared that she would wish nothing better than to become the mother...

Alexander Pushkin first addressed the fairytale theme in 1815, when he began work on a poem about Prince Bova. The first complete fairytale work in his oeuvre is Ruslan and Lyudmila (1820), which mad...