Auteur: Boris Zvorykin

The Tale of Tsar Saltan is a poem by Alexander Pushkin:Three fair maidens, late one night, Sat and spun by candlelight.”Were our tsar to marry me, “Said the eldest of the three, “I would cook and I would bake – Oh, what royal feasts I”d make.”Said the second of the three:”Were our tsar to marry me, I would weave a cloth of gold Fair and wondrous to behold.”But the youngest of the three Murmured: “If he married me – I would give our tsar an heir Handsome, brave, beyond compare.”- Russian Fairy Tales