The Ugly Duckling

One of my favorite fairy tales - The Ugly Duckling.

Puss in Boots

The cars shows a beautiful fairy tale card - Puss in Boots.

Thumbelina

A beautiful fairy tale card - Thumbelina.

Cinderella

A beautiful card depicting fairy tale - Cinderella.

Kurochka Ryaba

This cute card illustrates the story of 'Kurochka Ryaba' or Ryaba the hen. The story goes like this 'There lived an old man and an old woman, and they had a hen called Ryaba. One day, the hen hatched an egg — not a simple egg, but a golden one. The old man tried to break it, but could not, the old woman tried to break it, but could not. A mouse was running by, swang its tail, the egg fell and broke. The old man is crying, the old woman is crying. "Don't cry", says Ryaba the hen, "I'll hatch you a new egg, not a golden egg, but a simple one".' - From Wikipedia.

The Little Red Riding Hood

One of my favourite fairy tales of all times.

Kolobok

The Kolobok, (traditional Russian and Ukrainian pie/ small bread), suddenly becomes animated and escapes from "babushka" and "dedushka"s (old wife and man) home. The fairy tale's plot describes Kolobok's repetitive meetings with various animals (rabbit, wolf, and bear) who intend to eat it, but Kolobok cunningly escapes. 

With each animal Kolobok sings a song in which he explains his escape deductively: "I got away from Grandmother, I got away from Grandfather, and I will certainly get away from you". The fox manages to catch and eat Kolobok through distracting him by praising his singing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolobok)

The Frog Princess

In the Russian versions of the story 'Frog Princess' , Prince Ivan and his two older brothers shoot arrows in different directions to find brides. The other brothers's arrows land in the houses of the daughters of an aristocratic and wealthy merchant. Ivan's arrow lands in the mouth of a frog in a swamp, who turns into a princess at night. The Frog Princess is a beautiful, intelligent, friendly, skilled girl who was forced to spend 3 years in a frog's skin for disobeying her father (Koschei). 

Her final test may be to dance at the king's banquet. The Frog Princess sheds her skin, and the prince then burns it, to her dismay. Had he been patient, the Frog Princess would have been freed, but instead he loses her. He then sets out to find her again and meets with Baba Yaga, whom he impresses with his spirit, asking why she has not offered him hospitality. She tells him that Koschei is holding his bride captive, and explains how to find the magic needle without which he would be helpless; with this needle he rescues his bride. In another version, his wife flies into Baba Yaga's hut as a bird. 

He catches her, she turns into a lizard, and he cannot hold on. Baba Yaga rebukes him and sends him to her sister, where he fails again. However, when he is sent to the third sister, he catches her and no transformations can break her free again. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frog_Princess)

Teremok

Once upon a time there was a nice wooden house. A little Mouse passed by - knock, knock! - and asked if there was anybody in. No one answered, Mouse entered and started living there. Soon a Frog passed by Teremok - knock, knock! - and asked Mouse if they could live together. Mouse agreed. A Hair, a Fox and a Wolf also came to the house. So they lived together: Mouse, Frog, Hair, Fox and Wolf. Once a big Bear passed by. He also asked to let him in. But Teremok was too small for Bear, so he just sat on the roof. The house creaked and collapsed. Mouse, Frog, Hair, Fox, Wolf and Bear began to build a new house, made it better and bigger that previous one to accommodate everyone and lived there happily. 

(From: teremokpreschool.com)

Three Little Pigs

The story begins with the title characters being sent out into the world by their mother, to seek out their fortune. The first little pig builds a house of straw, but a wolf blows it down and he runs as fast as he can to his brother. The second pig builds a house of furze sticks, which the wolf also blows down and the pigs run to the third brother's house. The third pig builds a house of bricks. The wolf fails to blow down the house. He then attempts to trick the pig out of the house by asking to meet him at various places, but he is outwitted each time. Finally, the wolf resolves to come down the chimney, whereupon the pig catches the wolf in a cauldron of boiling water, slams the lid on, and cooks, and then eats him. (www.wikipedia.org)

Masha and the Bear

Masha and the Bear is a Russian children's fairy tale about Masha, a good-natured, precocious and mischievous girl, and a Bear who is a former circus performer.

The Giant Turnip

 It is a progressive story, in which a grandfather plants a turnip, which grows so large that he cannot pull it up himself. He asks the grandmother for help, and they together still cannot pull it up. Successively more people are recruited to help, until they finally pull the turnip up together. The specific ordering and set of people and sometimes animals varies. However in original Russian version the order is quite fixed, it is the grandfather (dedka), the grandmother (babka), the granddaughter (vnuchka), the female-dog (zhuchka), the female-cat (koshka) and finally the female-mouse (myshka). The humour or moral of the story is that only with the help of the weakest and smallest creature (the mouse) can the giant turnip or radish (repka) be pulled up.. (www.wikipedia.org)

The Magic Swan Geese

The Magic Swan Geeseis a Russian fairy tale by Alexander Afanasyev.

Here's the summary from wikipedia: 

Once there was a couple who had both a daughter and a son. They left their daughter in charge of her younger brother, but one day she lost track of him and the magic swan geese snatched him away. The daughter chased after him and came upon an oven that offered to tell her if she ate its rye buns; she scorned them, saying she doesn't even eat wheat buns. She also scorned similar offers from an apple tree, and a river of milk. She came across a little hut built on a hen's foot, in which she found Baba Yaga with her brother; Baba Yaga set her to spin flax and left. A mouse scurried out and said it would tell her what she needed to know if she gave it porridge; she did, and it told her that Baba Yaga was heating the bath house to steam her, then she would cook her. The mouse took over her spinning, and the girl took her brother and fled. 

Baba Yaga sent the swan geese after her. She begged the river for aid, and it insisted she eat some of it first; she did, and it sheltered her. When she ran on, the swan geese followed again, and the same happened with the apple tree and the oven. Then she reached home safely.

Cockerel with Cold Scallop

This card is an illustration from a Russian fairy tale 'Cockerel with cold Scallop'.

The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish

A beautiful animated artwork of the story of 'The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish' by Alexander Pushkin.