Tatar Tales

We present to you a unique anthology of tales, encompassing all aspects of the original and vibrant Tatar folklore. This luxurious edition contains the best examples of folk art from the Volga, Siberian, Mountain, and Crimean Tatars.

Forty-two tales included in... this book were recorded in the 19th – early 20th century from the words of folk storytellers by folklorists and ethnographers, as well as school teachers and representatives of the national intelligentsia, and then translated, adapted for children's reading, and artistically illustrated by outstanding translators and linguists P. A. Polyakov, V. N. Kharuzina, E. Z. Baranov, V. A. Gatsuk, S. D. Kravchuk, V. Kh. Kondaraki, and others.
Most of these tales are published in Russia for the first time in nearly a century and a half, and as a single collection, illustrated with works of Tatar and world painting, they have never been printed before.

The mesmerizing world of Tatar tales captivates with its originality, endless variety of genres and plots, vivid imagery, richness of imagination, and inexhaustibility of folk fantasy.