Crossword-Solution: RUSALKA 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

She has one strange fancy; she always signs herself “The Sea-gull.” The miller in “Rusalka” called himself “The Crow,” and so she repeats in all her letters that she is a sea-gull.

You would say it was some fairy _wila_ or _rusalka_ of the woods; every moment she stooped and stood erect again, and so, further and further, passing the pine trees, she entered deeper into the forest as some spritely nymph.

Besides _Boris Godunov_ and the _Rusalka_, Pushkin wrote a certain number of dramatic scenes, or short dramas in one or more scenes.

The province of Russian folk-lore and legend from which Pushkin took the idea of _Rusalka_ was to furnish him with a great deal of rich material.

The Russian peasant who failed to present the Rusalka or water-sprite he met at Whitsuntide, with a handkerchief, or a piece torn from his or her clothing, was doomed to death." One had to be ever on the lookout to escape the sharp little immortals, whose very kindness to men and women was a species of coquetry, and who never spared their friends' feelings at the expense of their own saucy delight.