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Read the Russian tale of a clever soldier who solves each riddle the tsar gives him and gains a fortune in the bargain. Find this and other stories from Russian mythology.
Russian Fairy Tales: Pagan Gods
"The following inventory and discussion of Russian pagan gods is taken from Linda Ivanits, Russian Folk Belief, Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1989. Russian words are transliterated according to the Library of Congress system, with the stressed vowel indicated by bold type. Numbers in parentheses are page references to Ivanits's book."

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