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Original title: Три старца (Tri Startsa)
Original languages: Russian

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Genre: Fiction→ Religious→ Christianity
Fairy Tales & Folklore

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Great Russian Short Stories (1929) [Anthology]
      Authors: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Alexander Pushkin , Anton Chekhov , Leo Tolstoy , Ivan Bunin , Ivan Turgenev , Nikolai Gogol , Isaac Babel , Leonid Andreyev , Nikolai (N.S.) Leskov , Maxim Gorky , Mikhail Zoshchenko , Panteleimon Romanov , Valentin Kataev , Alexander Kuprin , Aleksey Apukhtin , Valery Bryusov , Vsevolod M. Garshin , Fyodor Sologub , Boris Pilnyak , Vasily Zhukovsky , Alexander Afanasyev , Vladimir Solovyov , Vladimir Korolenko , Alexander Ertel , Eugene Chirikof , A. Okulov , Gleb Alexeyev , Vlasy Doroshevitch
     Book of Fantasy, the (1940) [Anthology]
      Authors: Lewis Carroll , Edgar Allan Poe , Rudyard Kipling , Ambrose Bierce , Ray Bradbury , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Franz Kafka , James Joyce , Mary Shelley , Leo Tolstoy , Edith Wharton , Oscar Wilde , William Butler Yeats , Voltaire , Lord Dunsany , Arthur Machen , Olaf Stapledon , J. G. Ballard , Julio Cortázar , Jorge Luis Borges , G. K. Chesterton , Thomas Carlyle , Guy de Maupassant , Francois Rabelais , Evelyn Waugh , Petronius Arbiter , Saki , B. Traven , W. W. Jacobs , Barry Perowne , Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Edward Lucas White , Ryunosuke Akutagawa , Walter de la Mare , Max Beerbohm , I. A. Ireland , May Sinclair , Jean Cocteau , Juan Manuel , Silvina Ocampo , Léon Bloy , Giovanni Papini , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Leonid Andreyev , John Aubrey , Tor Åge Bringsvaerd , Delia Ingenieros , Ah'med Ech Chiruani , Martin Buber , Arturo Cancela , Pilar de Lusarreta , Chuang Tzu , Santiago Dabove , Alexandra David-Neel , Macedonio Fernández , James George Frazer , Elena Garro , Herbert A. Giles , Leopoldo Lugones , Edwin Morgan , H. A. Murena , Niu Chiao , Carlos Peralta , Manuel Peyrou , P'u Sung Ling , W. W. Skeat , Emanuel Swedenborg , Juan Rudolfo Wilcock , Richard Wilhelm , G. Willoughby-Meade , Ts'ao Hsueh-Ch'in , Auguste Comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , Wu Ch'Eng En , José Zorrilla
     Short Shorts (1982) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ernest Hemingway , Franz Kafka , James Joyce , D. H. Lawrence , Anton Chekhov , Leo Tolstoy , Luigi Pirandello , Heinrich Böll , Octavio Paz , Katherine Anne Porter , Gabriel García Márquez , Yukio Mishima , Stephen Crane , Doris Lessing , Jorge Luis Borges , Sherwood Anderson , Guy de Maupassant , Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , James Thurber , Jerome Weidman , Isaac Babel , Gottfried Keller , William Carlos Williams , Heinrich von Kleist , Grace Paley , Marie Luise Kaschnitz , João Guimarães Rosa , I.L. Peretz , Giovanni Verga , Sholom Aleichem , Mikhail Zoshchenko , Varlam Shalamov , Augusto Monterroso , Paula Fox , Luisa Valenzuela