V. A. Zhukovsky. Tales and poems

"What is the beauty of these fairy tales, each there is a poem!" - once with admiration responded to the fairy tales of his nanny Arina Rodionovna Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. This enthusiastic assessment, undoubtedly, deserves another good Russian "storyteller", a close friend of the poet Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky. Mentor of the Great Tsearevich Alexandra, the Investigator of the Russian Ballad, Zhukovsky, with the light hand of Pushkin, who offered him a poetic tournament, appeared and the author of wonderful fairy tales.
King Berendia and a cat in boots, gray wolf and blasting, adorable sea princess - all these familiar characters from childhood and on the pages of the fairy tales of Vasily Zhukovsky.
However, the person encyclopedic knowledge, an outstanding enlightener, the poet is not limited to the plots of folk and literary fairy tales. "Shah-Name" and "Mahabharata" - the grand epi of the Iranian and Indian peoples - attract his attention. Two of the most bright, famous episodes - a fight of two boys, father and son Roshanta and Zoraba and the history of Nava and the faithful Damaanti - formed the basis of the plot of two poems by Vzhukovsky. Epitically measured and at the same time unusually poetic, sparkling with soft humor, fairy tales and poems, Vasily Zhukovsky, teach love, compassion and decent adoption and overcoming life tests, teach good