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Title: Old Peter's Russian Tales
Author: Arthur Ransome
Narrator: Greg Wagland
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-02-17
Publisher: Spoken Realms
Genres: Classics, Kids & Young Adults
Publisher's Summary:
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".
Ransome arrived in St. Petersburg in June 1913 and began to teach himself Russian from nursery primers and newspapers. This book was one of his first projects to have an audience of children in mind. It sold particularly well from the outset and subsequently has never been out of print. Ransome said of Old Peter's Russian Tales, first published in 1916: "I made up my mind to learn enough Russian to be able to read Russian folklore in the original and to tell those stories in the simple language that they seemed to need". Arthur Ransome came to sympathize with the Bolshevik cause, becoming personally close to Lenin, Trotsky, and Radek. Indeed, he ultimately married Trotsky's private secretary, Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina.
Old Peter's Russian Tales is read by Greg Wagland.
Members Reviews:
Russian Tales for Children
Old Peter's Russian Tales is a collection of Russian folktales written for children. The stories are linked together by anecdotes of a grandfather and his two grandchildren, to whom he tells the tales in the book. The anecdotes are relatively short, though occasionally the grandchildren will interrupt a story to ask questions.
The style of writing is geared towards children, though it stops short of being irritatingly sweet like some books I could name. This chosen style makes it a bit dull for an adult reader, though the appearance of archaic themes (such as wife-beating) means that a child should not read this book on their own. There are also not-infrequent Christian references.
Because this book was scanned before being made into a kindle book, there are a remarkable number of typo-like mistakes throughout the text. There are a few foot-notes, but the notes are in the middle of the text anyway, and a few of them are extraneous. The free kindle edition also lacks illustrations, though the captions for them (and the page numbers) are left in the text. But there IS an active table of contents, so at least there's that.
Contains the following stories:
The Hut in the Forest
The Tale of the Silver Saucer and the Transparent Apple
Sadko
Frost
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
Baba Yaga
The Cat who Became Head-Forester
Spring in the Forest
The Little Daughter of the Snow
Prince Ivan, the Witch Baby, and the Little Sister of the Sun
The Stolen Turnips, the Magic Tablecloth, the Sneezing Goat, and the Wooden Whistle
Little Master Misery
A Chapter of Fish
The Golden Fish
Who Lived in the Skull
Alenoushka and her Brother
The Fire-Bird, the Horse of Power, and the Princess Vasilissa
The Hunter and his Wife
The Three Men of Power--Evening, Midnight and Sunrise
Salt
The Christening in the Village
Old Peter's Russian Tales
This was given to me by my mother when I was a kid and I loved it then and I love it now.
