The Man Who Fought The Wolves : p. 135 THE MAN WHO FOUGHT THE WOLVES I. THE PLOT Snow was falling thinly in the gathering darkness on a chilly evening of early winter in the year 1716, when a traveller, who rode a great black horse, drew up before a small village inn on the highway which leads from St. Petersburg (Petrograd)...
Tsar Ivan And The Scots Soldiers : p. 108 TSAR IVAN AND THE SCOTS SOLDIERS I. A FRIEND IN NEED It was a cold and silent November night in the year of grace 1581, or, as the Russians then reckoned it, 1 the year 7089, "from the creation of the world". The moon began to rise over Moscow through a purple haze, swollen and dulled...
The Test Of War : p. 29 THE TEST OF WAR Leo Lermontov was scarcely twenty, but looked older. He stood over six feet in height, and had broad shoulders and great muscles. His face was tinged with the sadness that sometimes survives from early hardships. Two deep lines crossed his forehead, and his eyebrows sloped...
Mikhail The Kringel Seller : p. 72 MIKHAIL THE KRINGEL SELLER One sunny forenoon in early summer Little Mikhail stood at a street corner in a riverside suburb of Petrograd with a basket tray full of fancy cakes of white bread, called Kringels, suspended from his neck. He was a tall slim boy, not more than twelve years old...
Title Page : STORIES OF RUSSIAN FOLK-LIFE BY DONALD A. MACKENZIE London, Blackie And Son, Limited. [1916] NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION Scanned , December 2004. John Bruno Hare, Redactor. This Text Is In The Public Domain In The US Because It Was Published Prior To 1922. These Files May Be Used For Any Non-commercial...
The Lady Of Moscow : p. 51 THE LADY OF MOSCOW On the balcony of a Moscow hospital sat a group of convalescent soldiers, who had been wounded during the investment of Przemysl, 1 chatting and smoking in the warm sunshine. Their dialects varied as much as their physical characteristics for they hailed from various parts...
List Of Plates : LIST OF PLATES Page PETRUSHKA HOLDS THE WOLVES AT BAY Frontispiece "MAKSIM FELT HIMSELF BEING LIFTED AND CARRIED AWAY" 49 "PEOPLE CAME FROM ALL PARTS OF RUSSIA TO GAZE UPON THE PRINCESS" 64 KOKO AND LITTLE MIKHAIL 80 "'ONE GOLDEN EGG EACH MORNING', SAID LITTLE IVAN'S MOTHER" 97 SIR JEROME PAYS...
Introduction : p. 9 STORIES OF RUSSIAN FOLK-LIFE INTRODUCTION Russia is not only the largest but is also one of the flattest countries in Europe. An impression of its flatness is obtained from the statement that the projected canal to connect the Baltic and Black Seas would require only two locks, and yet be...
Untitled : STORIES OF RUSSIAN FOLK-LIFE BY DONALD A. MACKENZIE [1916] This is a bit of a departure for Mackenzie. Later publishers renamed this book 'Folk Tales from Russia,' to make it appear to be a Russian volume in Mackenzie's Mythology series, which is misleading. Instead this is a short book of ficti...
How Little Ivan Became A Tsar : p. 94 HOW LITTLE IVAN BECAME A TSAR A cobbler's son in Vladimir had been sent to a school by a rich lady who desired him to become a priest. His father took great pride in the boy, and cleared a corner of his shop where he might sit in quietness to pursue his studies undisturbed by the rest...
The Old Order And The New : p. 168 THE OLD ORDER AND THE NEW I. THE SHADOW OF SERFDOM "Has our master gone quite mad?" cried the peasant's wife. "He cannot mean what he says!" "Yes, little mother, indeed he does," lamented Peter, her youngest son, "he has arranged to sell us with a portion of his estate because he is in sore...
