The Green Bird: Fairy Tales and Legends

Once, in Rus’, there was a golden age of journalism. It sounds strange, but reporters and correspondents lived without bribes and were decent people. Everyone knows the name Gilyarovsky. But it reached us thanks to serious literature. The same story repeated with Vlas Doroshevich. Despite his loud popularity during his lifetime, we probably would have forgotten him if he hadn’t written his own cherished book. Where in what countries and into what twists and turns do his “Tales and Legends” not throw us! India and Persia, Sicily and the Caucasus. How much wisdom, how much ingenuity—and above all, fun and laughter! Only one uneasy suspicion won’t leave me—could it really be about Russia after all?!