This collection includes the fairy tales of Pushkin, familiar to everyone since childhood: about Tsar Saltan, his glorious son, the hero Gvidon, and the beautiful Swan Princess; about a fisherman, a fish, and a greedy old woman; about the golden cockerel and the cunning Shahrazad queen; about the dead princess and Prince Yelisey.
The illustrations by Boris Zvorikin are skillfully woven into the fabric of the narrative, conveying the musicality of folk culture and drawing the reader into the marvelous world of Russian fairy tales.
In the "Small Book with a History" series, other works by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin are also published. For example, "The Captain's Daughter", "Eugene Onegin", "Ruslan and Lyudmila" and others. In the framework of the fairy-tale direction of the series, young readers can also discover fairy tales from the peoples of the world - "Heavenly Dance. Korean Fairy Tales", "Russian Folk Tales", "Golden Lily. Chinese Fairy Tales", "Crane Feathers. Japanese Fairy Tales" and many others!
