Grandfather Mazai and the Rabbits: Selected Works

Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821-1878) - a great Russian poet and public figure. His works include poetic, prose, and dramatic pieces, with the most famous among them being the poems Who Can Live Well in Russia, Russian Women, Frost, Red Nose,... and the poems The Railway, Reflections at the Front Door, Peasant Children. Throughout his life, Nekrasov actively participated in literary life, not only as an author. On the pages of the magazine Sovremennik, which Nekrasov led for two decades, and later in Otechestvennye Zapiski, which Nekrasov published after the ban of Sovremennik, many works by I. A. Goncharov, F. M. Dostoevsky, I. Turgenev, L. N. Tolstoy, A. I. Herzen, M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, and N. G. Chernyshevsky first saw the light. For many great Russian writers and poets, the path to a wide readership was opened by N. A. Nekrasov. However, the main achievement of Nikolai Alekseevich remains his poetry. Nekrasov, who is rightly placed alongside Pushkin, became a reformer of Russian verse and defined its development for decades to come. He introduced elements of folk speech into poetry, thereby expanding its palette, and was the first in Russian literature to speak for the people in the language of the people. A consistent advocate of reforms and a bearer of revolutionary spirit, Nekrasov dedicated his poems to pressing civic themes, boldly combining merciless satire with deep lyricism. The book includes works by N. A. Nekrasov that are included in the lists of mandatory reading for students. The organic combination of folk elements and compassion for ordinary people, so characteristic of the great poet's art, finds its most complete expression in these works.