The mythology of the Eastern Slavs is rooted in distant pagan antiquity. But many ancient beliefs are well preserved in the living tradition of the Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian peoples. Myths about the creation of the Earth, nature and man, beliefs about nature spirits and domestic demons, about the highest gods of Ancient Rus' and the afterlife - all this is interestingly and fascinatingly told in book. Myths and legends of the Eastern Slavs are presented on the basis of oral traditions collected by ethnographers and philologists over the last century and a half. For middle and high school age.