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One of the best works of classical Russian literature. A book that has been equally loved by readers of all ages for nearly two centuries. Pushkin himself wrote admiringly about this collection: Here is true cheerfulness, sincere, unforced, without affectation, without stuffiness. And at times what poetry!.. Before us comes the astonishing world of Ukrainian folklore – a world of mermaids, witches, ghosts, demons, and devils. A world where the most amazing, and sometimes terrifying events are described with soft and sly, typically Ukrainian humor, and are accompanied by vividly depicted peasant life of the 19th century.