ILYA AND NIGHTINGALE THE ROBBER 33 … ILYA AND NIGHTINGALE THE ROBBER THIS is the story of the first of the nightingales,those sweet singers of the evening, each of whom,as the old books tell with certainty, sprang from apoppy seed. And the sower of the first seeds ofthe blood-red poppy was Ilya the Old Cossack, whorode the shaggy bay…
Folklore -- Russia · Fairy tales
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