About the book: 1993 / Alexander Alekseevich Kondratyev (1876–1967) - at the beginning of the 20th century, a famous St. Petersburg poet, novelist, translator and historian literature. It ceased to be published in Russia in 1917, as a result of which it was forgotten by both specialists and the general reader. Since 1918 - emigrant. This collection for the first time most fully presents Kondratiev the prose writer. The book includes works published from hard-to-find pre-revolutionary and emigrant publications. You will meet witches, mermaids, brownies, merman, nymphs, satyrs and other mythological and demonological creatures of Ancient Greece, Rus' and Egypt.