»›The City with the Blue Gate‹ invites us into the world of Slavic folk tales. Anna Dankowtsewa skilfully interweaves the real and the fictional, creating a novel that has what it takes to hold young readers in its spell from the first to the very last page.« Eselsohr
»A homage to the Russian folk tale. A riveting novel in which to immerse oneself - like Ivan in the Moskva.« Frankfurter Rundschau
