In 1913 the English author and journalist Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) left his wife and daughter and went to Russia to study Russian folklore. A product of his trip was Old Peter's Russian Tales, a collection of 21 folktales from Russia, published in 1916. After the start of the First World War in 1914, he became a foreign correspondent and covered the war on the Eastern Front for a radical newspaper, the Daily News. He also covered the Russian Revolutions of 1917, coming to sympathize with the Bolshevik cause. 

 Victor Ambrus was born in Budapest in 1935, but years later, as result of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Ambrus fled to Austria and then Britain, where he studied illustration. He has twice received the Kate Greenaway Medal from the British Library Association, for The Three Poor Tailors (1965) and Mishka and Horses in Battle (1975). 

Dummling from The Glass Man and the Golden Bird: Hungarian Folk and Fairy Tales