Russian Folk Tales, by James Riordan, Oxford University Press, 2000.
I have long thought that all fairy tales are derived from the story of Cupid and Psyche (or, from the source, The Golden Ass). This book does not disprove my theory.
It was interesting to recognize Russian versions of familiar stories, like Cinderella, and East of the Sun and West of the Moon, and even Baron Munchausen. I don't think the telling of the stories was quite as dynamic as it could have been, nor were the illustrations as engaging as they could have been.
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