An Intriguing Twist to Beauty and the Beast

Only when we see what stands under do we truly under-stand.

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The Russian version of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale is called The Scarlet Flower. It’s a retelling of the classical tale by Sergey Aksakov. According to Aksakov, he heard this retelling from a housekeeper Pelageya when he was sick as a child and could not sleep.

The story is recognizable but has an interesting twist, which I have alw…