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Time to get ready for the weekend! Moscow Digest is your source of interesting events for the holidays! This time our main themes are: Festivals in Moscow, Fairs, Expos, Music, Kids with our monthly Fairy tale and the TOP section that will offer you a choice of the Best 7 Beautiful gardens and squares of Moscow.

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Moscow DigestEdition 019 July 04th&05th www.intermarkrelocation.ru

JAZZReal Jam concert

p. 18

FAIRY TALEGolden Cockerel

p. 28

WONDERFULFlower Festival

p. 18

TOP7 BEST BEAUTIFUL & QUITE PARKS IN MOSCOW

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Contents:Festivals in Moscow

04 u Festival Moscow Flower Show06 u Festival “Gardens and People”07 u Kremlin riding school Performance08 u TOP7 Best Beau-tiful and Quite Parks in Moscow

Moscow Weathersource: gismeteo.ru

Cover: TOP7 Best Beautiful and Quite Parks in Moscow (see p. 08)

July, 5th+19 +26

Sunny/Rain

Dear Friends,Time to get ready for the weekend! Moscow Digest is your source of interesting events for the holidays!This time our main themes are: Festivals in Moscow, Fairs, Expos, Music, Kids with our monthly Fairy tale and the TOP section that will offer you a choice of the Best 7 Beautiful gardens and squares of Moscow.

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Fairs in Moscow

11 u Fair of amazing things “Emerald City”

Expos in Moscow

13 u Exhibition TobeUs14 u Chinese pho-tographer Almond Chu “Between emotion and quiet”

Music & Arts in Moscow

18 u Real Jam Concert

July, 4th+18 +29Sunny

19 u Festival “Summer Ballet Seasons”20 u Placebo Concert

Kids in Moscow

24 u Day of Family, Love and Loyalty in Sokolniki park 25 u New “PandaPark” in Mitino Area26 u Exhibition Anima-tus28 u The Fairy Tale - Tale of the Golden Cockerel

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Festivals in Moscow

This week the festivals will be all about Nature.

Welcome two amazing festivals about Flowers and

the Kremlin Riding School Performance in one of the

Moscow Parks.

And find our TOP7 Best Beautiful and Quite Parks in

Moscow

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Moscow Flower Show

This year the festival moved to a new place, now it will be held in the Park of Arts “Muzeon”.

Renowned landscape de-signers, florists and archi-tects from Russia and Eu-rope will participate in the Moscow Flower Show. They will show to Moscow Res-idents its ability to create fabulous gardens.

To create the unique magical atmosphere in the Park are used more that 30 000 flow-ers and plants. The guests will have the possibility to stroll through the recreat-ed landscape designed like the painting “The meeting of surfaces” by Kadinsky, vis-it the “Garden of forgotten books”, or breathe the scent of fresh berries in the garden “Sphere”.

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As 2015 is declared the Year of literature in Russia, the main theme of the festival will be - “Poetry of Flow-ers”. The Park will meet with writers, literary readings and presentations of new books. A special place in the Mos-cow Flower Show takes thepresentation of a new variety of rose “Princess Charlene of Monaco”.

Open time: 10am-10pmflowershowmoscow.ru

Park Muzeon2, Krymskiy val str.m. Oktyabrskaya, m. Park Kulturywww.muzeon.ru

For children will be prepared a special program with games, competitions and master classes. For garden-ers and “green” lovers will run a special market where you can buy decorationsfor the garden and home design accessories, as well as get a snack at the food court.

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Gardens and PeopleCatch the last Days of the Festival!

Hallmark of the festival will be the exhibition of gar-dens in the park “Sokolniki”, which has opens its doors on June 25. The exhibition of gardens is an internation-al competition for the land-scape design to introduce visitors to the author’s gar-dens, garden installations and unusual art objects.

Guests will be met by a small copy of the railway with trains and miniature hous-es, which are conveniently located among the trees of the garden.

adorn the rehabilitation cen-tre “Russian field”.

Everyday the visitors of the garden will find there fair of garden plants and other goods, lectures on the care of plants, photo exhibition “Rural life of Muscovites” and live music under the stars.

Until July 5thStart: 10amEntrance fee: up to 300RUB0+

Sokolniki Park m. Sokolniki1, Sokolnicheskiy Val str., bld.1www.park.sokolniki.com

Everyone will be able to attend master classes of painting, ice cream manu-facturing, flowers and pa-per bouquets creation. The master class «PRO carving” you will learn to do the cu-linary delights of fruits and vegetables. Younger guests will also not be bored at the festival; the most curious is waiting for the show “car-nivorous plants” and soap bubbles.

In addition, the opening day of the exhibition will be a charity project - Julia Snigir and landscape architect Anna Adasinsky create a part of the garden, “Above the Clouds”, which later

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Kremlin riding school Perfor-mance

At the Manor “Vorontso-vo” will take place a perfor-mances of the Kremlin riding school. The team presents a program of the series “Rus-sian Traditions”.

In their performance, the riders will get tricks and ele-ments of the military eques-trian sports and crafts. Spectacular riders of the Kremlin school skilfully own Cossack weapons and with pleasure will demonstrate it.Guests of the estate will have the opportunity to take part in master class by the famous Pavel Polyakov. This young man is an abso-lute three-time champion of Russia Jighitovka. The ath-lete will tell about the history of Russian Cossacks in de-tail and devote to viewers the particularities of Russian

cavalry horse breeding.

During special workshops children will learn from pro-fessionals how to brush and saddle the horses.

On July 5thStart: 12 amEntrance fee: Freekremlin-military-tattoo.ru0+

Vorontsovsky Park (Vorontsovo Manor)3, Vorontsovskie prudy str.m. Novie Cheremuchkiusadba-vorontsovo.ru

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TOP7 Best Beautiful and Quite Parks Summer is the best season for great walks and relax time in Parks. We found for you the TOP7 of Quiet and green place for a relaxing holiday, leisurely walks or just for reading an interest-ing book on the grass.

1. Lilac GardenGorgeous green oasis, lo-cated on the east of the cap-ital at the beginning of the Shchelkovo highway. It was founded in 1975 on the ba-sis of the nursery, pledged Russian breeder lilac Kole-snikov Leonid Alekseevich. Originally the garden was 32 varieties of lilacs, personally derived by Kolesnikov. And today, in May and June you can walk among the lilacs of all existing colours - from dazzling white to maroon. And in addition to lilacs there are growing a set of chestnut trees.

12, Shelkovskoe Shossem. Schelkovskaya

2. Vorontsov park and manor VorontsovoThe green area in the south-western part of Mos-cow, which become a great area for recreation and out-door activities. Manor, lo-cated in the eponymous park, is a real architectural monument of the late 18th - early 19th century. Originally it belonged to the boyar Vo-rontsov - in the old part of the park are still oaks and lindens, which saw the first owner of these lands. Also, this place is famous for its ponds, from which origi-nates the river Ramenka. In summer you can take a ride on a boat, and in winter is a real act of bathing point of “walrus” (people swimming in cold water during winter time).

m. Novye Cheryomushki3, Vorontsovsky Park str.

3. Apothecary GardenPacific paradise, wonder-fully lurking nears the noisy Prospect Mira. It is the old-est botanical garden in Moscow, lovingly manicured beds and beds that are con-stantly blooming something new, and where even in late autumn delight the eye ever-green shrubs and rhododen-drons. Even here you can visit the new greenhouse with a collection of tropical plants and orchids, a unique exhibition desert plants, as well as a permanent exhi-bition of landscape aquari-ums. Entrance fee: 150-200 RUB

26, Prospekt Mira, m. Prospekt Mira

4. AquariumGardenThe tiny park in front of the Moscow City Council thea-tre - one of the first pleasure gardens of the capital.History Garden Aquari-um can be calculated from 1893, when in the posses-sion of a

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large Moscow homeown-er engineer Malkiel opened garden “Chicago.” The main attraction of the garden - a sculptural fountain, “Apol-lo”, “creek” and “Satyr” that are great help to enjoy the heat of summer. For chil-dren is built a playground. Besides the fountains, in the park you can enjoy fine views of the arches or visit a lovely grotto. The park is open around the clock, so in the evening and night-time the fountains are decorat-ed by lighting that creates a fabulous atmosphere.

16, Bolshaya Sadovaya str.m. Mayakovskaya,

5. Patriarchy PondsOne of the most famous “Bulgakov’s’ places of the capital, where the action be-gins the novel” The Master and Margarita “- is, in com-bination, green and cosy place of rest, where in the winter free skating rink, and in summer on a landscaped playground frolic children, and on the grass water rest-ing youth. There are many shops, a lot of trees, whose age is estimated in decades, and the evening lights illumi-nation and a pleasant soft light illuminates the

park. On the leisure guests are well taken care of: at Patriarch’s Ponds are often fairs and big screen broad-casting of important events like the Olympic Games or the large-scale concerts. The pond is cleaned regular-ly; you can feed the ducks, swans and other aquatic creatures.

Malaya Bronnaya str.m. Mayakovskaya

6. Novodevi-chy pondsTwo beautiful pond located near the famous Novodevi-chy Convent. Curved track, elegant shops, an incredible silence - all this and attracts the romantic at heart people. The route looped around the pond with a mandatory pro-gram - to sit on the bench, feed the ducks, to see locks on the bridge several times to stop and look at the white walls of the monastery with red openwork crown. The park is open around the clock, and at night it offers a magnificent view of the illu-minated wall of the Novode-vichy Convent, reflecting in water surface of the pond.

1, Novodevichy Pereulok,m. Sportivnaya

7. Milutinsky GardenMilutinsky garden - a beau-tiful and well-kept park with flowerbeds and benches on Pokrovsky Boulevard, not far from the Kursk rail-way station. Swings, slides, sandboxes, playgrounds - that’s why the garden is a fa-vourite destination of living close to parents with chil-dren. Kids will take a lot of pleasure watching squirrels in a cage. Enthusiasts can work out at the ramp and roller skate. Before the revolution of 1917 the park belonged to one of the Moscow office. And now for the children is created a special centre with English classes, dancing and chess. There is a chorus circle “Skillful hands”, theatre & TV studio and basketball.

8, Pokrovsky Boulevardm. Chistie Prudy

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Fairs in Moscow

This weekend we find for you an amazing Fair of special gifts, which will take place in the Design Factory Flacon.

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Emerald CityEverybody is invited to visit the fair of wonderful & amaz-ing things “Emerald City”!

Visitors will be welcome by a friendly atmosphere, de-licious food and aromatic coffee. During two days, you will have the possibility to buy nice crafts or even to have a talk with the artists. Trading is welcome!

Any master will be happy to share the history of the cre-ation of their unique crafts. And also will give you a business card or contacts if you are interest in future co-operation or need any per-sonalized crafts.On that day on the street will play a variety of nice music!The fair will feature works by artists of different directions:

- Handmade jewellery;- Interesting gifts;- Knitted toys;- Various clothing;- Decoration of flowers and natural stones;- All kinds of accessories;- Home decor and more.

On July 4th & 5thOpen time: 12am-9pmEntrance fee: Free6+

Design Factory FLACON36, B. Novodmitrovskaya str. m. Dmitrovskayaflacon.ru

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Expos in Moscow

The Expo section, this week will offer you the choice

between two very different exhibitions.

One from the famous project of wooden toys TobeUs and

the other from a Chinese artist, that became famous after series of Military Parade photos and photos in Nude

style.

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TobeUsTobeUs project combines the best designers from differ-

ent parts of the world. The idea belongs to Matteo Rania. It is based on a desire to create a durable toy, as opposed to con-

temporary plastic. Clippers TobeUs made entirely of wood; it is very concise works of industrial design.

The best designers from 100 different countries designed 100 models, and formed the backbone of the exhibition. In each new city is added 10 new

machines created by local designers. TobeUs already visited Milan, Toronto, New York, and this summer will visit Moscow. Nobody has seen the 10 ma-

chines, which will join the TobeUs in Moscow, they are kept in secret!

Open time: 10am-8pmEntrance fee: 100-200RUB

www.tobeus.itwww.100x100tobeus.it

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Polytechnical MuseumVDNKH

Exhibition Center, Pavilion №26m. Botanitchesky Sad

polymus.ru

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Almond Chu “Between emotion and quiet”53-year-old Hong Kong photographer Almond Chu became world famous after large-format photographs of the series “Parade”, where the streets of industrial cit-ies where crossed by ranks of identical cloned men and women, and black and white prints in Nude style.

According Almond Chu and in life and in the work he seeks to embody the idea of the Chinese simplicity and its principles of life are inseparable from his views of art. Key works keynotes Hong Kong photographer - the perception of space, an understanding of the issues and the search for timeless aesthetics.

Besides the famous “Pa-rade” in Moscow will be pre-sented several conceptual series from the Hong Kong photographer.

The project Fabricated Mor-tals (2007) the author via digital unrecognizable blurs the image of a naked female body, thereby depriving the viewer to perceive its “typi-cal” male gaze.

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The shot on Polaroid series The Bride with White Hair (2007) Almond Chu brings nude storyline - body move-ments and long white hair models are designed to show the beauty of the love of sorrow.

The exhibition presents a series of minimalist mono-chrome Horses (2008) and nude images from the pro-ject Nude.

Besides Moscow Residents will be able to see the con-ceptual colour portraits of Almond Chu compatriots - known Chinese actors, sculptors, photographers and representatives of other creative professions.

Open time 12am-9pmEntrance fee: 150-300 RUBwww.almondchu.com18+

Gallery of classic photo 23, Savvinskaya Quay, Bld. 1 m. Sportivnayawww.classic-gallery.ru

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Music in Moscow

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind,

flight to the imaginationand life to everything.”

- Plato

This week we created one section for Music and Art.

Welcome a worldwide group in tour in Moscow, a not less famous in Russian Jazz Band, that will play in a Moscow

Park for free.Or Enjoy 2 month of everyday Ballet in the heart of Moscow.

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Real Jam ConcertJazz mood will for everyone from the famous in Russia jazz band Real Jam on the summer radio station “May-ak”. This peculiar band is performing retro-jazz, in which the old music comes to life, and the listener is transferred in the days of black and white film and vi-nyl records.

with the best jazz songs from Chicago-style jazz to boogie.

SundayOn July 5thStart: 9pmEntrance fee: Freehttp://radiomayak.ru/shows/episode/id/1210750/0+

Sokolniki Park m. Sokolniki1, Sokolnicheskiy Val str., bld.1www.park.sokolniki.com

Amazing arrangements, the mastery of musicians and vocals - that’s what helped Real Jam occupy a special place among Russian jazz performers and become a popular musical group in Russia.

Most prestigious jazz ven-ues in Moscow are happy to accept Real Jam at to please the audience with their music.Each of the concerts is a journey in time, together

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Summer Ballet SeasonsMoscow audience for two months will be able to enjoy the masterpieces of world choreography. Daily on the stage of the Russian Aca-demic Youth Theatre will ap-pear stars of world ballet.Traditionally, the festival will open the famous ballet by PI Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake”. The real surprise for the audience becomes a ballet staging of the novel MA Bulgakov’s “Master and Margarita” - a unique cho-reographic fantasy Gorod-nitski Boris and Esther May Murdmaa.Find at the festival artists from Paris “Grand Opera”. The festival will feature lead-ing soloists of Theatre Bal-let from St. Petersburg and Moscow.

All performances will take place with the accompani-ment of an orchestra, which will be guided by a talented Russian conductors.

Start: 7pmTickets: From 1600RUBhttp://ballet-letom.ru/

Russian Academic Youth Theatre2, Teatralnaya Square,m. Teatralnayawww.ramt.ru/

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Placebo ConcertSometimes, when listening to a song or group you just want as quickly as possible to turn it off and put some-thing else – that was the reaction on Placebo some years ago in Russia.

Speaking back in 2001 in Russia, Placebo was met by more than cold. No one knows at that times if the boys are unlikely to be able to reach out to the Russian audience.

Now time changed, they have plenty of fans from Russia, and now they re-turned here as winners.

Sincere and sensual lyrics, mesmerizing music and the fullness of emotions awaits all visitors at the concert.

On July 4thStart: 8pmTickets: 2800-4000RUBplaceboworld.co.uk18+

Gorky Park – Green Theatre9, Krymsky Val str., bld.33m. Frunzenskayagreentheatre.night.ru

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Placebo are an alternative rock band, formed in London in 1994 by singer-guitarist Brian Molko and guitarist-bassist Stefan Olsdal.

The band were soon joined by drummer Robert Schultzberg, who was replaced in 1996 by Steve Hewitt. Hewitt was fired from the band in 2007 and replaced by Steve Forrest in 2008, who left in 2015.

Placebo are known for their androgynous image and musical content. To date, they have released seven studio albums, all of which have reached the top 20 in the United Kingdom, and have sold around 11 million records worldwide.

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Kids in Moscow

This week is held the Day of Family, Love and Loyalty, find an amazing event in a Mos-

cow Park to celebrate it. As a plus, this weekend will be open a new Panda-Park

for kids and adults.

But if you wander to find something really interesting and special – visit the exhibi-

tion Animatus.

And to finalise the section, find our monthly Fairy Tale to

read to your little one:)

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Day of Family, Love and Loyalty in Sokolniki park

In honour of the Day of Fam-ily, Love and Loyalty in the park “Sokolniki” will be held diverse events.

This weekend guests may expect a rich cultural and entertainment program. Family workshops on draw-ing and cooking will wait for their members on Fountain Square.

For lovers of outdoor ac-tivities are recommend-ed “Zumba» lessons, Club Dance and Jazz Funk, yoga, sports races, family games and some funny contests.For the curious will be held

educational quizzes and quests. If you speak Rus-sian, you can visit interest-ing lectures.

The musical part of the fes-tival will present DJ Kostas and DJ Fenix.

Saturday4th of JulyOpen time: 12am – 9pmEntrance fee: Free0+

Sokolniki Park m. Sokolniki1, Sokolnicheskiy Val str., bld.1www.park.sokolniki.com

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New “Pan-da Park” in Mitino AreaPark staff have prepared for you and your children a real holiday with a variety of con-tests and giveaways.

You are awaited for new routes that stretched high above the ground, and in-credibly exciting adventures outdoors, allowing spending time with health benefits!This is an excellent way to actively spend time with your family.

New obstacles will make you check yourself for strength, but do not be afraid, all the routes are designed to meet state standards, SNIP and European standards, and the reliability of equipment and experienced instructors will take care of your safety.

The variety and complexity of the barriers will help you find something for everyone, both children and adults. Go through all the routes to feel a lot of new emotions!

Open time: 1pm-4pmEntrance fee: 200-300RUB6+

Landscape Park “Mitino”Penyaginskaya str.m. Mitino

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Exhibition Animatus

Polytechnic Museum, and Gorky Park invites you to visit the exhibition Animatus by Korean artist Hyungko Lee.

The Master is interested by unusual anatomy of car-toon animals. He studied the structure of skeletons of many animals, and certainly watched plenty of cartoons

and so he creates the skel-etons of famous cartoon characters.

Here you will see how in re-ality can look skeletons of the Jerry the mouse or rabbit Bunny; What structure have beaks ducks Huey, Dewey, and Louie?;Why does cat Tom can walk upright like a man and more.

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ko it just “animatuses”.

Open time: 11am-8pmEntrance fee: 400-800RUB

Gorky Park 9, Krymskiy Val Streetm.Oktyabrskaya, m. Park Kulturywww.park-gorkogo.com

The work on the skeletons of the author applied the method of reconstruction of the fossil appearance, which allows you to restore the ex-terior of the animal.

At that time, scientists are studying the skeleton to rec-reate the appearance of fos-sil, Hyungko Lee cartoons studying the habits

and movements of cartoon characters.

The master wants to prove the possible existence of fic-tional characters in real life, for that he even does not mention by name the works prototypes. Visitors must have guessed what kind of heroes, by carefully looking closer. For the most Hyung

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Once upon a time, there was a proud and warlike tsar named Dadon. When he was young, he had a penchant for invading and destroying neighboring lands. As he grew older and his strength began to fail, Dadon wanted peace, but now his enemies sensed his weakness and it was their turn to wage war on him. For advance warn-ing of invasion, he asked for help from his court magician, who gave him a present--a golden cockerel. If any ene-mies approached, the cock-erel, sitting on a spire atop Dadon’s palace, would see them and crow loudly in warning. The tsar was very pleased with the magician’s gift and promised to grant him any reward he desired.

For two years Dadon’s peo-ple lived in peace as the cockerel did its job, crowing

Tale of the Golden Cockerel

whenever there was danger. One day the golden cock-erel cried out more loudly than ever before and Dadon sent a great army, under the command of his elder son, to seek out the danger. Nothing was heard of them for eight days. The cockerel cried out again and the tsar sent out more troops, led by his younger son. There was no news again for eight days and then the cockerel cried out for a third time.

Tsar Dadon, with a small contingent of his best war-riors, decided to go investi-gate for himself. After sev-eral days’ march, he came upon a terrible battlefield where both of his armies and his two sons lay slain. At the edge of the battlefield he saw a tent with a woman of stunning beauty inside. Her name was the Queen of

Shamakha. She invited him into the tent with a bewitch-ing smile, and Dadon stayed with her for a week. Madly smitten with love, he then took her back home to his kingdom.

The magician appeared at the gates and asked the tsar to pay for the golden cock-erel by giving him the Queen of Shamakha. Infuriated, Dadon hit the magician with his staff, wounding him fa-tally. The golden cocker-el left his spire, flew down and pecked Tsar Dadon to death.. The Queen of Sham-akha then disappeared, as if she had never been there. Dadon had learned too late that the most dangerous en-emies are not without, but within.

- The End-

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Moscow DigestEdition 019.2015July 04th & 05th

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Numerous sources were referred to in the making of this publication.

Photography source, not indicated inside the Moscow Digest:

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poshvu.ruwww.matteoragni.com

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The Fairy Tale source:

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From a poem by the Russian poet Aleksander Pushkin. Copyright 2001. Narrative by Andrew and Tatyana Stonebarger. Editor: Donna Richardson.

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