V. I. Kalugin (Editor)
Byliny.
Moscow: "Sovremennik", 1986. Klassicheskaya Biblioteka. 558 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8.25", is bound in red cloth, with title stamped in gold on spine and front cover. Blind-stamped ornamental designs appear on spine and front cover. Book shows light shelfwear, with smudging to lower portion of back cover. Binding is sound. Lightly age-toned pages are clean and without markings.
Soviet collection of Russian oral epic poems, loosely based on historical fact, but greatly embellished with fantasy or hyperbole.