Byliny Book: Hero Tales of Russia

Byliny Book: Hero Tales of Russia

This is a Byliny Book. What does Byliny mean? It is a Russian word, and it means stories about What-has-Been, what happened in Russia in the old days long ago. We all read about the Greek heroes Jason and Perseus and Theseus and Heracles. The Russians had splendid heroes too, who met with wonderful adventures. Russia and France and Italy and England are fighting side by side a great fight for freedom, and these old heroes of Russia fought for freedom too, against great barbarian armies of Huns and Tartars. The Russians are our brave friends, our Allies, as we call them now, and it is good to get to know about their heroes of olden times. We all know and honour our French Allies, and most of us try to speak French. We are proud to read in history how our William the Conqueror came over from France and brought with him many good laws and customs, and, best of all, beautiful French words that have now become Englishwhy, the very word beauty came to us from France. But Russia is much further away than France, and very few of us learn to speak Russian, or even to read it. [viii] Far the best way to get to know people is to learn their language, but it is not quite so easy to learn to read Russian as it is to read French, because the Russians use different letters. You will see Russian letters in the pictures1; they are beautiful, delightful things and some of them are like English, so it is exciting to try and make them out, but some of them are like Greek, for the Russians always liked the Greeks better than the Romans. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 66643
Author: Harrison, Marion Chilton
Release Date: Nov 1, 2021
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Stewart, Hugh, Mrs