Sometimes a fun May

The book “Sometimes Fun May ...” includes the chosen works of one of the largest Russian poets of the 19th century- Count A.K. Tolstoy (1817-1875): lyrics, ballads (“Vasily Shibanov”, “Snake Tugarin”, “Stream- Bogatyr ”,“ matchmaking ”, etc), poems (“ John Damaskin ”,“ Portrait ”,“ Dream of Popov ”), drama (“ Don Juan ”,“ Posadnik ”), humorous poems (including the history of the state Russian from Gostomysl to Timashev ) The texts of different genres are located in chronological order, which reveals their semantic roll calls and allows you to see the complexly organized poetic world of A.K. Tolstoy in its dynamics. The guide to this world is an article by the compiler, historian of Russian literature, the ordinary professor of the National Research University Higher School of Economics by Andrei Nemzer