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«The Giant Turnip»
«Репка»

"The Giant Turnip" or "The Enormous Turnip" is a children's fairy tale of Russian or Slavic origin. It was first published in 1863 in the collection Russian Folk Tales, edited and published by Aleksandr Afanas'ev. It is a progressive story, in which a grandfather plants a turnip, which grows so large that he cannot pull it up himself. He asks the... More...

Bulgaria, 1964, The Big Turnip

Hungary, 1960, The Turnip