Epics and legends of Kyiv, Novgorod and Moscow are presented: Svyatogor, Volga Vseslavievich, Ilya Muromets, Duke Stepanovich, Solovey Budimirovich, Sadko merchant, rich guest, Vasily Buslaev, Word about Igor's regiment, Ermak Timofeevich, Capture of Kazan by John Grozin to the good fellow and the river Smorodinka, Prince Mikhailo, Otrepiev and Marishka, To the good fellow and the treasury of forty thousand, The Prince's slander, etc. The book contains a large number of black and white illustrations of full-page and in the text