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                          RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES

                       From the Skazki of Polevoi



                                   By
                             R. NISBET BAIN

                       Illustrated by C. M. Gere



                             Third Edition

                                 London

                              A. H. Bullen
                18 Cecil Court, St. Martin's Lane, W.C.
                                  1901






PREFACE.


The existence of the Russian Skazki or Maerchen was first made
generally known to the British Public some twenty years ago by
Mr. W. R. S. Ralston in his Russian Folk Tales. That excellent
and most engrossing volume was, primarily, a treatise on Slavonic
Folk-Lore, illustrated with admirable skill and judgment, by stories,
mainly