Tales

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799–1837) is a great Russian writer, the founder of modern Russian literary language, the author of world-renowned works in verse and prose ("Eugene Onegin", "Dubrovsky", "Ruslan and Lyudmila", "The Prisoner of the Caucasus", "The Queen of Spades"),... as well as fairy tales for children. A.S. Pushkin was born in Moscow into a family of an untitled noble lineage. On his mother's side, his great-grandfather was the African Abram Petrovich Hannibal - a protégé and servant of Tsar Peter I. He was not very close to his parents; his nanny, Arina Rodionovna, was his educator and true friend. In 1811, A.S. Pushkin was admitted to the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum in St. Petersburg. By 1814, his poems began appearing in the magazine "The Messenger of Europe", and at the same time, he was accepted into the literary society "Arzamas". Pushkin's later political lyrics ("Liberty", "To Chaadaev", "The Village") angered Emperor Alexander I, and only thanks to the efforts of Karamzin, Zhukovsky, and Krylov was he able to avoid exile to Siberia. Fairy tales occupy an important place in the poet's work. The literary fairy tales of A.S. Pushkin are based on the plots of Russian folk tales that he heard in childhood from his nanny, Arina Rodionovna. An important genre feature of a fairy tale is its educational function. A.S. Pushkin's fairy tales are no exception: in an engaging form, the author shows readers that good always triumphs over evil, and any lie will be revealed and punished.