The Adventures of Murzilka and the Forest Little People

Here are kind and cheerful stories about wonderful adventures of tiny woodland people—elves.

Murzilka, Znaika and Neznaika, Doctor Mazь-Peremazь… It turns out that it was children’s writer Anna Borisovna Hvovlson who invented these characters back in the late 19th century. Of course, their character and appearance are completely different from the heroes we know since childhood. For example, Murzilka, nicknamed Empty Head, is a gentleman in a frock coat, top hat, with a cane and a monocle. And there are also Chumilka-the Seer, Hare’s Lip, Mishka-Chatty, Dundunduk, Chitaika, Turka, a Chinese man Chi-ka-chi, a rider Skok, and other funny names.

The book contains lots of informative material. After all, the tiny elves visited China, India, and Europe, sailed the seas in boats and rode sleds across the tundra, visited the palace of a rajah and learned in a German school…