From Lukomorye to Buyan: An Atlas of Russian Folkloric Geography

“Go there, I don’t know where” is by no means an abstract formula, but an almost exact route—just like Kudykin Mountain, not to mention the Tenth Kingdom far away. And if until now you couldn’t imagine where to look for all of this, now you have the opportunity to figure it out. Buyan Island, Belovodye, Sannikov Land, the Land of the Bearded, and Kitezh-grad are not just fantasies; and if they are fantasies, then not random ones: once upon a time, they were invented for a reason.

What lies behind these “fairytale” yet entirely real toponyms, and also how, where, and by what means you can get to them, you can read in Kirill Korolev’s new book “From Lukomorye to Buyan.”