Philker: Stories and Fables

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)-Russian writer and philosopher, author of the world known throughout the world (“War and Peace”, “Anna Karenina”, “Resurrection”).
Born in Yasnaya Polyana in a rich aristocratic family. L. N. Tolstoy early orphaned. In 1837, he, together with his sister and three brothers, moved to Moscow, where a distant relative T. A. Ergolskaya was engaged in their upbringing.

In 1851 he entered military service in the Caucasus and continued to write.
In 1852, he sent the manuscript of Childhood to a popular magazine Contemporary in those years. The editor of the magazine N. A. Nekrasov praised the work of the young author. After the end of the Crimean war, he left for St. Petersburg and immediately entered the Contemporary circle, where he was met as the great hope of Russian literature.
In addition to literary activity, L. N. Tolstoy considered the issues of education and education important. He created the ABC (published in 1872), which, in addition to the primer, included fairy tales, stories and fables.

Stories described by L. N. Tolstoy are easily perceived, they are written in a simple and understandable language and at the same time they are instructive, affect the soul, find a response in the hearts of readers. Some of the author’s fables are an adapted translation of the works of the famous ancient Greek fabulist Aesop, but L. N. Tolstoy made them more familiar to modern perception. For example, in the “man and water” fable, instead of the Greek god Hermes, we will see the water, but the plot and moral of the Aesop fable are preserved. “It is necessary that everything is beautiful, brief and, most importantly, clear” - this is the most important requirement that the writer made to his work, and always followed him.
For primary school age.
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