{"product_id":"2940151196642","title":"The Cross-Surety","description":"William Ralston Shedden-Ralston (1828-1889) was a British folklorist and writer who became famous as a translator from Russia. He was in Russia a number of times where he made friends with major Russian writers of those times such as Turgenev and Afanasyev.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis classical Russian fairy-tale that was collected and translated by William Ralston Shedden-Ralston. The story tells us about big friendship and honesty between two merchants. One of them was a Russian, the other a Tartar, both of them were rich. But after an accident that ruined all business of Russian merchant he was left as poor as a rat without any means of livelihood. In order to support his own friend Tartar borrowed him fifty thousand rubles. The guarantee of repay was a word of honor and a life-giving cross of the Russian merchant.","brand":"Magic Fairy Tales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073659060464,"sku":"2940151196642","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151196642_p0.jpg?v=1764008041","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151196642","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}