V knigu voshli samyye izvestnyye i lyubimyye skazki o russkikh bogatyryakh i ikh bitvakh so zlymi silami, o Koshcheye Bessmertnom, Ivane-tsareviche i russkikh krasavitsakh. Kak eto i dolzhno byt' v skazke, vse zakanchivayetsya khorosho: dobro pobezhdayet, zlo nakazano, a gosti veselyatsya na svadebnom piru.