About the book: 2016 / Truly immortal are the pearls of Russian literature, collected with a careful hand, they are like a never-fading wonderful flower from the fabulous Berendey Forest. The book presents stories and legends about ancient cities and villages, disappeared temples, about the mysterious miracle, mountains and mounds, lakes and rivers, about heroes, about famous robbers and sworn treasures, about evil spirits, witches, sorcerers and werewolves. All unique material was collected by devotees of Russian culture, writers and folklorists of the 19th and 20th centuries M. N. Makarov and I. P. Sakharov, M. Yu. Zabylin, P. I. Melnikov-Pechersky, S. V. Maksimov, A. N . Afanasyev.