The collection includes the most famous Russian folk tales, such as Turnip, Kolobok, Teremok, Wolf and Goat, Zayushkina izbushchka, Golden Egg, Crane and Heron, Fox and the Bear, Cat and Fox, Masha and the Bear and many others.
To the 110th anniversary of Yevgeny Rachev this book is published, for illustration to which he was awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR.