The Russian fairy tale about Tsarevich Ivan and his wife, Vasilisa the Wise,who was enchanted to be a frog, was recorded by the renowned folklorist AlexanderNikolayevich Afanasyev (1826-1871), who collected and published morethan 600 Russian folk tales in the middle 19th century.The illustrations included in this edition were created in the early 20th centuryby Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, a famous Russian illustrator and stage designer,who was inspired...