“The Golden Book of Russian Folk Tales” is a voluminous collection of fairy tales and stories which include Russian folk tales, fairy tales from Russian writers and Bazhov’s tales from the Urals.

Such heroes of Russian folk tales as Tsar Saltan, Tsar Ivan, Vassilissa The Beautiful, Ivan The Fool, the Sister Aljonushka and the Brother Ivanushka lead the reader to a wonderful and magical world. “By the pike's wish” and “…at my command” the odd things are born, here the furnaces are flying around, eagles become beautiful princes and frogs turn into clever tsar’s daughters, here the goddess of the copper mountain wearing a silk dress is beautiful to look at but charmingly dangerous. Readers who are yet to get acquainted with Russian folk fairy tales discover an exciting and peculiar magical world where there is always a place for a miracle and spectacular events, where the goodness and the cleverness defeat the evil. The fairy tale creations of such Russian writers as D. Mamin-Sibiryak, P.Bazhov and A.Platonov have become classics of Russian literature. Aleksandr Pushkin have been inspired from Russian folk fairy tales and shaped them into beautiful verses.

“The Golden Book of Russian Folk Tales” is also published in Russian, entitled "Русскиe сказки. Золотая книга".