True Fairy Tales for Little Children

Bright and pure, kind and instructive, entertaining and engaging, written in good Russian—these fairy tales will bring many pleasant moments not only to children, for whom they are intended, but undoubtedly also to their parents, many of whom with surprise will discover in the sea of cheap modern children’s literature junk this magical, enchanting fairy-tale island given to us by a kind storyteller—an acclaimed contemporary prose writer, Father Nikolai Agafonov.

1. The Story of One Bell (a truthful fairy tale)
2. The Tale of How the Angels Fell from Heaven
3. Planet Earth (a parable-fairy tale)
4. What did the mosquitoes feed on in Paradise? (an excerpt from the story “The Foolish Grishka”)
5. Indifference (a kitchen fairy tale)
6. What kind of shoes are the most necessary? (a parable-fairy tale)