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Old Peter's Russian Tales, by Arthur Ransome, [1916], at sacred-texts.com
| The Hut in the Forest | 11 | ||
| The Tale of the Silver Saucer and the Transparent Apple | 18 | ||
| Sadko | 40 | ||
| Frost | 54 | ||
| The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship | 70 | ||
| Baba Yaga | 88 | ||
| The Cat who became Head-Forester | 106 | ||
| Spring in the Forest | 120 | ||
| The Little Daughter of the Snow | 122 | ||
| Prince Ivan, the Witch Baby, and the Little Sister of the Sun | 136 | ||
| The Stolen Turnips, the Magic Tablecloth, the Sneezing Goat, and the Wooden Whistle | 155 | ||
| Little Master Misery | 184 | ||
| A Chapter of Fish | 206 | ||
| The Golden Fish | 212 | ||
| Who Lived in the Skull? | 228 | ||
| Alenoushka and her Brother | 231 | ||
| The Fire-Bird, the Horse of Power, and the Princess Vasilissa | 242 | ||
| The Hunter and his Wife | 260 | ||
| The Three Men of Power--Evening, Midnight, and Sunrise | 269 | ||
| Salt | 294 | ||
| The Christening in the Village | 316 |
| They sailed away once more over the blue sea | Frontispiece |
| There she was, a good fur cloak about her shoulders and costly blankets round her feet | 64 |
| There she was, beating with the pestle and sweeping with the besom | 96 |
| Misery seated himself firmly on his shoulders and pulled out handfuls of his hair | 192 |
| "Head in air and tail in sea, Fish, fish, listen to me" | 208 |
| He stepped on one of its fiery wings and pressed it to the ground | 240 |
| It caught up the three lovely princesses and carried them up into the air | 272 |