Fairy tales

In the creative biography of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, it was his living interest in folk poetry that the poet began to call the Great National Artist of the Word. Being in the link in Mikhailovsky, he described his brother to Lion his classes, including how the stories of Arina Rodionovna listens in the evenings, and exclaimed: What is these fairy tales! Each is a poem! " In his own essays, Pushkin uses all folk wealth: poetic symbols, epithets, comparisons, song-epic images, plots. Samuel Marshak said: Listening to Pushkin"s fairy tales, we have been learning to appreciate a clean, simple, alien exaggeration and porcity of the word ... Only in a truly folk song occurs sometimes the same modest, reserved and deep expression of human feelings and experiences. The purity and clarity of the Pushkin language, he added, will always be a standard for us - the golden measure of poetic perfection. In the collection, which you hold in your hands, entered the famous" fairy tale about Pop and about the employee of his bald "," Tale of Tsar Saltan ... "," Tale of fisherman and fish "," Tale of the dead princess ... "," Tale of gold Petushka ", as well as the poem Ruslan and Lyudmila