Old Peter's Russian Tales
Author: first_name:  Arthur
last_name: Ransome
Language: English
Year: 1916

Arthur Ransome is best known for his <i>Swallows and Amazons</i> series of children’s books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public domain. These stories are all from Russian folklore, some comparatively well-known, others less so. Ransome spent some years in Russia as a newspaper correspondent for the <i>Daily News</i> and the <i>Manchester Guardian</i> and was peripherally involved in the revolution. In the late twenties he married Evgenia Shvelpina, Trotsky's secretary, retired