The original of this work is read in just 6 minutes. We recommend reading it without abbreviations, so interesting. Young Volga Svyatoslavovich longs for much wisdom and strength. He collects a squad of thirty daredevils, and they leave for the open field. They hear in the field a plowman: he whistles, and his plow ...

: A wolf who grew up on a chain loved only his master’s son. The boy died, the wolf escaped, but remained in the city, at the grave of a child. The wolf kept the city in fear, took revenge on a long-time offender and died in a raid. The storyteller first met the Winnipeg Wolf in 1882 when he traveled by train to Winnipeg ...

: A rich, but tired and sick lawyer sold everything and left for India. The monks taught him to be responsible for his actions, to control himself and to lead a happy, orderly life, long staying young and healthy. The original narration is on behalf of attorney John. The division of the retelling into chapters is conditional....

: A young scientist-folklorist finds himself in a secluded castle in a swamp, whose mistress is mad and wants to kill an insidious guardian. A young man saves a girl and marries her. The narration is conducted on behalf of the scientist-folklorist Andrei Beloretsky. The division of the text into chapters and their names is conditional ...

: The guy fell in love with the girl, but she drowned. The guy married unloved, endured betrayal of his wife with a neighbor-sorcerer. Once a guy saw a mermaid in the image of his beloved, he followed her and died, having fallen in the gorge. The division of the retelling into chapters is conditional. Childhood Ivan Ivan from the Hutsul family Paliychukov was ...

: A puppy living with a drunkard in a nature reserve is haunted by a cheeky jackal.The drunkard leaves, and the puppy protects his tent from the jackal for four days. The returning drunkard stands up for a friend, killing the jackal. The narration is conducted in the first person. Chink was a noisy, good-natured, furry, stupid puppy, but ...

: A fraudster passes off a street cat as a thoroughbred and sells it to a wealthy family. Despite a well-fed life, a freedom-loving cat escapes, returns to its slums and stays there forever. First life. Every morning, a New York meat delivery man came to feed a poor quarter. Those lucky ones got food ...

: Twenty stories reveal the secrets of nature and describe the habits of animals endowed with a bright personality. Stories teach justice and respect for the world around us. The stories of the cycle are arranged in the order of publication. Lobo The cunning wolf cuts the cattle of the surrounding farmers, and ...

: Fast carrier pigeon sets many records. Making a flight, he is captured by a dishonest person. Two years later, a dove breaks free and perishes in the claws of falcons near the house. In his youth, the narrator happened to be a judge in the competition of carrier pigeons, which took place in one of ...

: The young hunter has been chasing a huge deer for several years. Finally, he drives the animal into a trap, but understands that the deer, like himself, the son of mother nature, and releases him. One summer, twenty-year-old Yang was hunting birds and saw a small hoof trail on the bank of a stream. To see such traces of Jan ...

: Cowboys are trying to catch the Mustang, known for its speed and intelligence, but all attempts fail. Finally, the mustang manages to be caught, but he breaks free, falls into the abyss and dies free. Cowboy Joe Kalon grazing horses at a ranch in New Mexico. Once he noticed a herd of wild horses - mustangs, ...

: A female coyote raised among humans learns to avoid their traps. Having broken free, she transfers this invaluable experience to her children, thanks to which coyotes are still flourishing. The beginning of the 20th century. In the state of Dakota, many coyotes divorced. They gathered in packs, ravaged the herds. Big farmers paid ...

: A red-brown fox is born in red foxes.Growing up, he finds a girlfriend and steals chickens from the surrounding farms. Farmers raid the fox, but he is saved and defeats his enemy - the ferocious dog. Part one. Native house In northern Canada, in a secluded aspen grove, a red-headed family dug a hole ...

: An old lynx steals food in a forest hut, whose inhabitants are seriously ill. One of them, a fifteen-year-old boy, decides to repulse the lynx, wounds it with a jail, and the predator dies. Fifteen-year-old Thorburn Alder (Thor) recently recovered from a serious illness, and his relatives sent him to visit his friend Roots, ...

: A cunning wolf slaughter cattle of nearby farmers, and no hunter can kill him. The narrator kills a wolf friend and catches a predator with her body. The wolf dies in captivity, yearning for a girlfriend. The narration is conducted on behalf of the narrator - a former hunter. The end of the XIX century. In the mountain state in the southwest ...

: The Great Patriotic War. The young lieutenant at the head of the sabotage group is sent to destroy a large German base. The mission ends in failure, the lieutenant dies, not following the order. Chapters one - two The group of Lieutenant Ivanovsky went to the deep German rear. Had to go ...

Songs about the gods A song about Humir Once the gods return from hunting with prey and start a feast, and they lack a cauldron. And the god Tür, in friendship with Thor, Odin’s son, gives good advice: “He lives in the east ... Humir the wise” and he keeps “a great cauldron with a mile of depth”. And Tyr and Thor set off on their journey and, having arrived ...

The poem was based on the Karelian-Finnish folk epic songs (runes), which in the XVIII century. collected and processed by Elias Lönnrot. Rune 1 Ilmatar, daughter of air, lived in the air. But soon she became bored in the sky, and she went down to the sea. The waves caught Ilmar, and from the waters of the sea a daughter ...

The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War, in 1942, in the territory of occupied Belarus. “Punishers” is a bloody chronicle of the destruction of seven peaceful villages by the battalion of Hitler's punisher Dirlewanger. The chapters bear the corresponding names: "Village One", "Village Two", ...

The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Two brothers lived in one of the cities of Persia, the eldest Kasym and the younger Ali Baba. After the death of the father, the brothers divided equally a small inheritance, which they inherited. Kasym married a very rich woman, engaged in trade, his wealth increased. Ali Baba ...