Kornilov Bilibin plate #9 – Prince Ivan and the Frog Princess After one of Ivan Bilibin’s illustrations for “The Frog Princess” Russian fairytale book. At the beginning of the story, the czar orders his three sons to shoot arrows in different directions. Wherever their arrows land, each prince is to look for his future wife there. While older brothers’ arrows landed in noblemen’s yards, the youngest son Ivan finds his arrow in the middle of a dirty swamp, being held by a frog. Ivan Bilibin
