References to the tale are made in Monday Starts on Saturday by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: In the first part of the book Sasha stays in an old house 'by the sea' (actually in an alleyway called Curving Seashore Street) with a green oak in the garden. The house is revealed to be chicken legged hut of Baba Yaga (who is called Naina by the characters in the book). There is a well learned cat who paces to and fro under the tree, trying to recount stories and songs but who is unable to remember more than the first few lines of each.