Poems. Ballads. Bylinas

Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy in the history of Russian literature is known as one of the creators of the legendary goat of Kozma Prutkov, on behalf of whom he with his brothers Alexei and Vladimir Pearzhnikov-Mi presented the readers a lot of immortal aphorisms and wise sayings. A.K. Tolstoy was also a wonderful prosair (Roman "Prince Silver"), playwright, thin and spiritualized lyrics, the author of satirical poems, as well as ballads and epic, written on the most interesting historical material. Valery Breusov, Alexander Blok, Veliy Khusen, and Vladimir Mayakovsky, according to the testimony of Korni Chukovsky, knew the poetry of Tolstoy "by heart from the board to the board" and loved to read out loud. Many poems of A.K. Tolstoy are put on music and became famous romances, among which "my colos-rings, steppe flowers", "it was early in spring", "medium of a noisy ball by chance ..." And others. The present edition includes the best of the poetic heritage of this original master as versatile talent