Once Upon a Time, Russian-style

Today's fun bit of Russophiliana (which is a word I just made up) is a radio adaptation in English of Alexander Pushkin's The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights on Voice of Russia. It may sound very familiar to you; it's what I always suspected was going on in that little house in the woods, anyway....dwarves-schmarves.

Listen

Source: Voice of Russia.

Or, if you want to hear it in Russian with Pushkin's original iambic tetrameter, you can watch a lovely cartoon version on YouTube, with English subtitles.

Jane Kindred

Author of the Demons of Elysium and Looking Glass Gods series. Jane spent her formative years ruining her eyes reading romance novels in the Tucson sun and watching Star Trek marathons in the dark. She now writes to the sound of San Francisco foghorns while her cat slowly but surely edges her off the side of the bed.