Glade Of Fairy Tales – Magical Place Filled With Mythical Creatures And Heroes

MessageToEagle.com – Imagine a magical place where you can meet all beings from your childhood’s fairy tales or a place where you could encounter ancient famous figures from your history books. Would it not be wonderful to stand face to face with mythical heroes of the past? There is such a place, and it’s called Glade of Fairy Tales.

What is wonderful about this magical garden that is filled with over 300 wood sculptures depicting characters from Slavic, Greek and Western folk tales is that you don’t have to be a child to appreciate the wonderful collection displayed in this unique and magnificent open air museum.

The Glade of Fairy Tales (“Polyana Skazok”) is located the Ukrainian resort city of Yalta. It was founded by folk artists Pavel Pavlovich Bezrukov in 1960. The entrance to the fairy-tale city is guarded by Pushkin’s Thirty Goodly Knights with spears and shields.

Over the years as many as 56 professional artists and skilled craftsmen from Yalta, Simferopol, Kiev, Moscow, Pervouralsk (Russia), Vilnus (Lithuania), Erevan (Armenia) have contributed to the growth of the popular museum.

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The wooden sculptures have been made in the likeness of popular Russian and Ukrainian fairy-tales, Crimean and Greek legends, and many beloved cartoons heroes.  You can see fantastical fairy-tale characters transformed from old stumps, logs or roots.

In the Glade of Fairy Tales you can encounter Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf, the Fire-bird, Baba-Yaga and Kashchey Immortal.

At the end of the alley there are false mirrors and the entrance to the main territory. There you can see not only the heroes of fairy tales and epics, but also the Slavic settlement, the temple of the ancient gods, tower-room, the lake, on the bank of which lives Swan Princess, an old woman with a broken tub, devil and Balda.

In the end of the glade there is the Small Pavilion and the hut on chicken legs, which will turn to you on your request and real Baba Yaga will show herself!

A lot of different materials were used for the creation of fairy-tales personages — Crimean diorite, Urals marble and ceramics.

The Glade of Fairy tales was primarily designed for children, but adults find this magical place just as entertaining.

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