About the book: year / The book of fairy tales and stories of 1001 nights once amazed Europeans no less than the multi-colored oriental fabrics, the shimmer of steel of merciless Muslim blades, the mysterious shine of multi-colored Arab bowls “1001 Nights” is a collection of fairy tales in Arabic, united by the fact that they were told to the cruel king Shahryar by the beautiful Shahrazade. These tales have no known authors; they have been collected into collections by various compilers over the centuries, and the most varied tales have been combined - from moralizing, religious, magical, where the heroes are kings and veziers, to everyday, picaresque and even fairy tales, where the characters are animals. The book has gone through many editions, translations and publications in various languages ​​of the world. This edition presents an eight-volume translation of 1929–1938 directly from Arabic, made by Mikhail Salye, edited by academician I. Yu. Krachkovsky, based on the Calcutta edition.