A delightful collection of short stories, poems and fables written by some of the best Soviet Russian writers through the ages. Contents: 1. On Sea Shore Far a Green Oak Towers by Alexander Pushkin 2. The Little Scarlet Flower by Sergei Aksakov 3. The Little Black Hen, or The Underground People by Antony Pogorelsky 4. The Town in the Snuff-Box by Vladimir Odoyevsky 5. Asheek-Kerib by Mikhail Lermontov 6. The Cat and the Fox by Vladimir Dahl 7. The Blind Horse by Konstantin Ushinsky 8. The Righteous Judge by Lev Tolstoy 9. The Frog Went Travelling by Vsevolod Garshin 10. Little Grey Neck by Dmitri Mamin-Sibiryak 11. The Tiger Hunters by Nikolai Garin 12. Kismet by Alexander Kuprin
