Marko the Rich and Vasily the Unlucky.
By: Translated from the Russian by Thomas P. Whitney. Illustrated by Igor Galanin.
Contributors: Whitney, Thomas P., tr.; Galanin, I., illus.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Folklore -- Russia.
Description: In order to escape the prophecy that a new-born baby would deprive him of his fortune, Marko the Rich determines to destroy the child.
Notes: "Translated from the Afanasyev collection of Russian folk tales."