From snow-deep forests where pine trees creak like old ships, to palace gates where winter moonlight glitters like frost-cut silver… Russian Fairy & Folk Tales gathers the immense and wintry legends of old Rus’ ‒stories carried through birch-wood villages, frozen river crossings, zakuska tables full of laughter, Orthodox feast nights, and long sleigh roads where memory travels beneath furs and starlight. Within these pages you will meet firebirds whose feathers can blind kings, wicked sorcerers ...