“Perseus transferred power over Serif to Polydectes’ brother Dictys, who once saved him with his mother, and he himself went to Argos with Danaë and Andromed...

“Polydectes planned to forcibly take the beautiful Danae as his wife, but Danae hated the stern king Polydectes. Perseus stood up for his mother. Polydectes ...

“Perseus rushes further and further from the island of the Gorgons. Like a cloud driven by a stormy wind, it rushes across the sky. Finally, Perseus reached ...

“The great singer Orpheus, the son of the river god Eager and the muse Calliope, lived in distant Thrace. Orpheus’ wife was the beautiful nymph Eurydice...”<...

“High on bright Olympus reigns Zeus, surrounded by a host of gods. Here are his wife Hera, and golden-haired Apollo with his sister Artemis, and golden Aphro...

“The greatest artist, sculptor and architect of Athens was Daedalus, a descendant of Erechtheus. They said that he carved such marvelous statues from snow-wh...

“Once upon a time there was a goat, she made herself a hut in the forest and gave birth to children. The goat often went into the forest to look for food. As...

“The life of Lazarillo from Tormes, his hardships and misadventures”“La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes: y de sus Fortunas y Adversidades”Published anonymously i...

A long time ago, in France, when adults were children and fairy tales were true, all these amazing stories took place that you will find in this collection, ...

The Novgorod Karamzin Chronicle, which had never been published before, was preserved in a single list of the late 15th – early 16th centuries. (RNB, F.IV.60...

In this edition, for the first time, the full text of the Novgorod Chronicle is published according to Dubrovsky's list, which contains the most extensive No...

The stories presented here are a collection of tales floating around the Russian-language Internet.