The book includes one hundred and twelve Russian folk tales collected and processed by the famous children's writer, publisher, translator and one of the founders of the children's magazine Murzilka Alexander Alexandrovich Fedorov-Davydov (1873-1936). Most of these tales are unfamiliar to the modern reader. The publication is decorated with dozens of letters, screensavers and drawings made by the artist Alexander Petrovich Apsit (1880-1943).