Russian Myths

The book contains the myths about the "Heroes" set out on the works of Hesiod, Ovid, Aeschylus, Homer, Moschus, Sophocles, Pausanias, Pindar, Euripides.

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The book contains myths of the Trojan cycle outlined by the poem of Homer's "Iliad," the tragedies of Sophocles, poems of Virgil, Ovid's "Heroines", and fragments of other works.

Russkaja narodnaja skazka - proizvedenie ustnogo tvorchestva russkogo naroda, odin iz vidov fol'klornoj prozy. V russkih skazkah russkij narod pytalsja vyskazat' svoe nacional'noe mirooshhushhenie, nastavit' svoih detej v pervobytnoj, no glubokoj zhiznennoj mudrosti, - razreshaja lezhavshie na ego serdce zhiznennye, nravstvennye, semejnye, bytovye i gosudarstvennye voprosy.

Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) wrote Old Peter's Russian Tales while he was in Russia during the First World War, prior to becoming a war correspondent for The Manchester Guardian. There are 22 stories in all and are told by Old Peter at the behest of his grandchildren, Ivan and Maroosia, in a cozy log cabin in the middle of the forest. These are delightful re-tellings in Ransome's own words of Russian folk tales, and include stories such as "The Little Snow Girl", "Baba Yaga", "Frost", and "Salt".

The book contains a story about the gods of ancient Greece, written on the basis of the great works "Iliad", "Odyssey", "Aeneid".

The book contains the myths about the Argonauts set out on the basis of the poem of Apollonius of Rhodes'"Argonavtika".

The book contains the myths of the "Agamemnon, and his son Orestes" and "Theban Cycle" myth of King Oedipus, Antigone, and Alcmaeon set out by the tragedies of Aeschylus '"Agamemnon" and Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex".

The book contains the myths of Odysseus set out on the basis of Homer's "Odyssey".

Russia is the largest country in the world, with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. Over a thousand years this multifaceted nation of shifting borders has been known as Rus, Muscovy, the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Thirty years ago, it was reinvented as the Russian Federation. Russia is not an enigma, but its past is violent, tragic, sometimes glorious, and certainly complicated. Like the rest of us, the Russians constantly rewrite their history. They too omit episodes of national disgrace in favour of patriotic anecdotes, sometimes more rooted in myth than reality.

Aleksey Nikolaevich Tolstoy - russkiy pisatel', poeht, publicist i dramaturg, sozdavshiy original'nuyu detskuyu povest' "Zolotoy klyuchik, ili Priklyucheniya Buratino", istoriyu o derevyannom mal'chishke s dlinnym nosom po motivam skazki Kollodi. S "Buratino" vyroslo ne odno pokolenie lyudey, umeyushchih smeyat'sya i druzhit', lyubit', byt' muzhestvennym i imet' v serdce mesto dlya sostradaniya, a povest' A. N. Tolstogo stala odnoy iz luchshih v detskoy mirovoy literature.

Каждый день миллионы людей тратят огромные деньги на «чудодейственные» добавки, «революционные» диеты и «натуральные» средства от всех болезней. Но что, если большинство этих решений основано на красивых обещаниях, а не на научных фактах? Марк Уилсон, врач с 15-летним стажем, раскрывает механизмы, которые заставляют умных людей верить в медицинские мифы. Основываясь на реальных случаях из практики и последних исследованиях в области психологии принятия решений, он показывает, как наш собственный мозг может стать противником в вопросах здоровья.

Long cold winter nights make for good story telling, so it's scarcely surprising that some of the world's most wonderful fairy tales come from Russia. Soar through the air in 'The Flying ship', feel the frost freeze your bones in 'The Strange Bridegroom', sail the seven seas in a ship with patchwork sails in 'The Salt Mountain'. These are stories guaranteed to delight in another outstanding edition of Classic Children's Stories.

"Shkol'naja koroleva" - povest' dlja detej, izvestnoj britanskoj pisatel'nicy Jelizabet Mid-Smit. V shkole missis Shervud Kitti O'Donovan - vseobshhaja ljubimica. Devochki edinodushno vybrali ee korolevoj maja. Ona samaja krasivaja, poslushnaja i dobraja uchenica. Drugaja uchenica jetoj shkoly, gordaja i samoljubivaja Genrietta ne mozhet smerit'sja s jetim. Ona ustraivaet zagovor protiv Kitti...

"Malen'kij oborvysh" povest' dlja detej britanskogo pisatelja i zhurnalista Dzhejmsa Grinvuda (1833-1929). Glavnyj geroj povesti - mal'chik, kotoryj okazyvaetsja na ulice. Emu prihoditsja promyshljat' na Koventgardenskom rynke, voruja chto popadjot pod ruku ili pitajas' otbrosami, nochevat' v katakombah i furgonah, a inogda i na syroj zemle.

Collection The Best Fairy Tales contents. Brothers Grimm: Hansel and Gretel ; Little Red Cap ; Rumplestiltskin ; Rapunzel. Charles Perrault : Cinderella Or The Little Glass Slipper ; The Master Cat or Puss In Boots ; The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods. Hans Christian Andersen: The Ugly Duckling. Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince ; The Nightingale and the Rose ; The Selfish Giant ; The Devoted Friend ; The Remarkable Rocket.

Prekrasnaya skazka nemeckogo pisatelya-romantika Vil'gel'ma Gaufa "Malen'kiy Muk" rasskazyvaet o chudesnyh priklyucheniyah mal'chika, kotoryy s pomoshch'yu volshebnyh tufel' i trosti sumel pobedit' svoyu neblagosklonnuyu sud'bu i dobit'sya udachi. Hodyachiy vostochnyy syuzhet pod perom Gaufa prevratilsya v zahvatyvayushchiy rasskaz, grustnyy i smeshnoy odnovremenno, bogatyy zhiteyskoy mudrost'yu i tonkimi nablyudeniyami nad chelovecheskim harakterom.

Puteshestviya Sindbada-morekhoda - ehto odna iz samyh yarkih stranic mnogocvetnogo, zahvatyvayushchego mira vostochnoy fantazii. Neuemnoe bespokoystvo Sindbada vlechet ego vse k novym stranstviyam i priklyucheniyam. Ego zhdut vstrechi s zagadochnymi sushchestvami, magami i charodeyami, lyudoedami i chudovishchami. V ehtom volshebnom izmenchivom mire Sindbada spasayut nastoychivost' i upryamstvo, nahodchivost' i tonkiy raschet, sila duha i volya k zhizni.

Russkie narodnye skazki: Carevna-lyagushka, Ivan-carevich i seryy volk, Finist-yasnyy sokol, Nikita-Kozhemyaka, Skazka o molodil'nyh yablokah i zhivoy vode, Morskoy car' i Vasilisa Premudraya.

Знаменитые немецкие филологи-фольклористы братья Гримм, Якоб (1785 - 1863) и Вильгельм (1786 - 1859) до сих пор остаются одними из самых известных сказочников планеты.