The Tales of Belkin

"Tale of Belkin", published in 1831 and today is hardly the most popular product of Russian classical literature.
The story of writing Belkin "is closely connected with the marriage of Pushkin, which has become fatal for him. This is written in the sketch of the blizzard "philologist Mikhail Osipovich Gershonon, which is included in the publication.
In order to deceive the strict censors and picky critics, Pushkin called the author of the age of some Ivan Petrovich Belkin, an unknown writer, besides the untimely went into the world another.
For a month and a half Pushkin wrote five leaders - five "fairyments", "pleasant", as he himself called them. But they are so simple, naive and harmless, let the reader judge.
The artist Peter Carved residents emphasized the irony of Pushkin in his drawings in relation to all his characters. Including to the author himself, Belkin Ivan Petrovich