Collection of Cambodian (Khmer) fairy tales in an edition with illustrations by G.A.V.Traugot. This edition is based on three collections published by the Buddhist Institute in Phnom Penh in 1959. Yuri Alexandrovich Gorgoniev (1932-1972) - Soviet orientalist, doctor of philological sciences, specialist in Chinese and Khmer languages, author of the first Khmer-Russian dictionary and the first teacher of Khmer.