Verra Xenophontova Kalamatiano de Blumenthal

“Old Frost gave the gentle girl many beautiful, beautiful things.” Illustration by Lucy Fitch Perkins, published in Folk Tales from the Russian by Verra Xenophontovna Kalamatiano De Blumenthal (1903), Core Collection Books Inc.

Verra Xenophontovna Kalamatiano De Blumenthal collected Russian fairy tales and folk tales for the book Folk Tales from the Russian. The author was a daughter of a Black Sea Fleet Admiral and was born in 1864 in Sevastopol, Russia.