First Russian Reading Book

1 hr. 58 min.

Children's Books, Audio Fairy Tales & Poems

Language Russian

Author Leo Tolstoy

Narrator Vladimir Anin

Description

Entertaining, instructive works for teaching children to read were specially collected by Leo Tolstoy into several “Russian Books for Reading.”

“An ant went down to the stream: it wanted to drink. A wave swept over it and nearly drowned it. A dove was carrying a branch; it saw—the ant was drowning—and threw the branch into the stream. The ant sat on the branch and was saved. Later, a hunter set a net for the dove and wanted to trap it. The ant crawled up to the hunter and bit his leg; the hunter yelped and dropped the net. The dove fluttered up and flew away…”

Contents:

The Ant and the Dove (Fable)
The Blind and the Deaf (True Story)
The Tortoise and the Eagle (Fable)
The Foundling (True Story)
The Head and Tail of a Serpent (Fable)
The Stone (True Story)
Eskimos (Description)
The Ferret (Fable)
How the Aunt Told About How She Learned to Sew (Story)
Thin Threads (Fable)
From Speed Comes Strength (True Story)
The Lion and the Mouse (Fable)
Firemen’s Dogs (True Story)
The Monkey (Fable)
How a Boy Told About How He Wasn’t Taken to the Town (Story)
The Liar (Fable)
How They Fixed a House in the City of Paris (True Story)
The Donkey and the Horse (Fable)
How a Boy Told About How a Thunderstorm Caught Him in the Forest (True Story)
The Jackdaw and the Doves (Fable)
A Man and Cucumbers (Fable)
A Woman and a Hen (Fable)
An Old Grandfather and a Little Grandson (Fable)
The Sharing of an Inheritance (Fable)
Where Does Sea Water Go? (Reasoning)
The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox (Fable)
How a Boy Told About How He Found Beehives for His Grandfather (Story)
A Dog, a Rooster, and a Fox (Fable)
The Sea (Description)
The Horse and the Coachman (Fable)
Fire (True Story)
The Frog and the Lion (Fable)
The Elephant (True Story)
The Monkey and the Peas (Fable)
How a Boy Told About How He Stopped Being Afraid of Blind Beggars (Story)
A Dairy Cow (Fable)
The Chinese Queen Silinchi (True Story)
The Dragonfly and the Ants (Fable)
A Mouse-Girl (Fairy Tale)
A Hen and Golden Eggs (Fable)
Lipunyushka (Fairy Tale)
The Wolf and the Old Woman (Fable)
A Kitten (True Story)
The Scholar’s Son (Fable)
How They Learned to Raise Silkworms in Bukhara (True Story)
A Man and a Horse (Fable)
How the Aunt Told Her Grandmother About How Yermelka Pugachev, the Robber, Gave Her a Coin (True Story)
Abdul the Vizier (Fairy Tale)
How the Thief Caught Himself out (True Story)
A Parcel (Fable)
A Pit of Stone/Stone (True Story)
Two Merchants (Fable)
The St. Gotthard Dog (Description)
A Man’s Story About What He Loves About His Older Brother
How I Killed a Rabbit for the First Time (Story of a Gentleman)
Thumbelina (Fairy Tale)
The Fool (Poem-Fable)
Svyatogor the Hero (Poem-Fable)