Вниз по волшебной реке

"Vniz po volshebnoĭ reke" - ostroumnai͡a, vesëlai͡a povestʹ Ė. Uspenskogo po motivam russkikh skazok. Obyknovennyĭ shkolʹnik Miti͡a priezzhaet na leto k babushke v derevni͡u i popadaet v Tridevi͡atoe t͡sarstvo. Tam estʹ vse znakomye s detstva personazhi: Zmeĭ Gorynych est li͡udeĭ, Baba I͡Aga tozhe mozhet sʺestʹ, no v osnovnom privechaet t͡sarevicheĭ, kormit, poit, spatʹ ukladyvaet. Koshcheĭ Bessmertnyĭ vesʹ iz zheleza, dvesti let provisel v podvale na t͡sepi͡akh. A tut takoĭ sluchaĭ predstavilsi͡a: t͡sarʹ Makar sobralsi͡a na pokoĭ. Vot i predlozhili "predannye" t͡sarskie slugi zani͡atʹ tron Koshchei͡u. A smena vlasti redko byvaet mirnoĭ.

"Down the Magic River" is a witty, funny story by E. Uspensky based on Russian fairy tales. An ordinary schoolboy Mitya comes to visit his grandmother in the village for the summer and finds himself in a Far-off kingdom. There are all the characters familiar from childhood: Snake Gorynych eats people, Baba Yaga can also eat, but mostly welcomes princes, feeds, waters, puts them to bed. Koschei the Immortal is all made of iron, hung in the basement on chains for two hundred years. And then such an opportunity presented itself: Tsar Makar was going to retire. So the "devoted" royal servants offered to take the throne to Koshchei. And the change of power is rarely peaceful.