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Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) wrote Old Peter's Russian Tales while he was in Russia during the First World Conflict, prior to learning to be a warfare correspondent for The Manchester Guardian. You will find 22 stories in all and are advised by Old Peter at the behest of his grandchildren, Ivan and Maroosia, in a comfy log cabin in the middle of the forest. They are delightful re-tellings in Ransome's own words of Russian folk tales, and include reviews such as "THE TINY Snow Girl", "Baba Yaga", "Frost", and "Salt". Ransome arrived in St. Petersburg in June 1913 and started to teach himself Russian from nursery primers and papers. This e book was one of is own first projects with an audience of children in mind. It sold especially well from the outset and consequently has never been out of print out. Ransome said of Old Peter's Russian Tales, first posted in 1916: "I made up my mind to learn enough Russian to have the ability to read Russian folklore in the initial and to notify those reviews in the easy dialect that they appeared to need". Arthur Ransome came up to sympathize with the Bolshevik cause, becoming individually near Lenin, Trotsky, and Radek. Indeed, he eventually committed Trotsky's private secretary, Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina. Old Peter's Russian Tales is read by Greg Wagland.
