Old man Hottabych

Lazar Iosifovich Lagin (1903 - 1979) - Soviet writer and poet. The story “The Old Man Hottabych” (1938) was printed in parts first in the newspaper Pioneer Pravda, and then in the journal Pioneer.
Moscow schoolboy Volka Kostykov, bathing in the river, finds a mysterious bottle. The surprise of Volka knew no bounds when instead of a treasure, he found a genie in an old bottle. The old genie named Gassan Abdurakhman Ibn Hottab promised to faithfully serve Volka for his liberation and fulfill all his wishes. But Pioneer Kostykov does not need palaces and the innumerable wealth of Hottabych. Volka teaches the old man to literacy, arranges for work in the circus, “makes a real person out of him.”
Hottabych, in turn, helps Volka to learn how to value friendship and be responsible for his actions.
for children of secondary school age