Forty tales. Tolstoy A.N.

Alexey Tolstoy, the classic of Russian literature, one of the brightest writers of the twentieth century, composed for children not only the famous fairy tale about Pinocchio, but also remarkably processed Russian folk tales. Later, more and more carried away by folklore motifs, he created his own fairy tales for young readers, which he united in two cycles: “Forty Tales” and “Mermaid Tales.”

“The fairy tale,” A. Tolstoy believed, “great The spiritual culture of the people, which we collect by crumbs, and through the fairy tale reveals before us the millennial history of the people. "