Down the Magic River

Going on vacation to your grandmother in the countryside and ending up in a fairy-tale kingdom where Zmey Gorynych lives, Koschei the Immortal, the swamp Kikimora, Cat Bayun, and other not-so-pleasant fairy-tale characters—this isn’t likely to please every boy. But Mitya Sidorov liked it very much. Because it wasn’t just that he saw what he’d read about in books—he also managed to help the kind fairy-tale heroes: Vasilisa the Wise, Uncle Domovenok, and the wonderful king Makar. Without him, they would have disappeared.