Fairy tales

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837) - great Russian writer, founder of the modern Russian literary language, author of works recognized throughout the world in verses and prose ("Eugene Onegin", "Dubrovsky", "Ruslan and Lyudmila", "Caucasian captive", "," "Queen of Spades"), as well as fairy tales for children. A.S. Pushkin was born in Moscow in a family of an attended noble family. On his maternal line, his great -grandfather was African Abram Petrovich Hannibal - a pupil and servant of Tsar Peter I. He was not very close with his parents, the educator and a real friend for him was the nanny Arina Rodionovna. In 1811 A.S. Pushkin was admitted to the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum in St. Petersburg. Already in 1814, his poems appear in the magazine Bulletin of Europe ", then he was accepted into the literary society Arzamas". The later, Pushkin’s political lyrics ("liberties", "to Chaadaev", "Village") caused the anger of Emperor Alexander I, and only thanks to the efforts of Karamzin, Zhukovsky and Krylov he managed to avoid links to Siberia. Tales occupy an important place in the poet’s work. The basis of literary tales A.S. Pushkin lie the plots of Russian folk tales, which he heard in childhood from the nanny Arina Rodionovna. An important genre feature of a fairy tale is an educational function. Tales of A.S. Pushkin is no exception: in an exciting form, the author shows readers that good always defeats evil, and any lie will be revealed and punished