This book is for everyone who would like to give their children an idea of Russian culture, which combines both the Byzantine-Christian beginning and the paganism that preceded it, going back centuries. The authors consciously strove for a very specific genre: a book for reading by adults and children. The authors pay special attention to colloquial style, dialect vocabulary, folk sayings and words, which in a succinct and figurative manner convey many of the essential features of traditional Russian culture. The book is based on authentic folklore texts.