Alexander Alekseevich Kondratiev (1876–1967) - at the beginning of the 20th century, a famous St. Petersburg poet, prose writer, translator and literary historian. It ceased to be published in Russia in 1917, as a result of which it was forgotten by both specialists and the general reader. Since 1918 he has been an emigrant. This collection for the first time most fully represents Kondratiev the prose writer. The book includes works published in hard-to-find pre-revolutionary and emigrant publications. You will meet witches, mermaids, brownies, merman, nymphs, satyrs and other mythological and demonological creatures of Ancient Greece, Rus' and Egypt.