Indian fairy tales

“Not a single country in the world can argue with India in the beauty and diversity of its fairy tales ... "” wrote the largest Russian indologist Academician S. F. Oldenburg, whose translations, who have preserved the spirit, color of Indian fairy tales, were included in this book.
Raji and princesses, merchants and farmers, brahmanas and starships, fakirs and warriors - all layers of Indian society will appear before the reader on the pages of instructive and ingenuous, magical and domestic, philosophical and poetic Indian fairy tales.
The exquisite drawings of Indian painters of the XVI-XIX centuries and the expressive book graphics of John Batten and Nikolai Karazin will allow us to look at the beauty of the fairy-tale India through the eyes of artists of various countries and eras