Russian writers of fairy tales. List of authors and works

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

A literary author's fairy tale is probably one of the most popular genres of our time. Interest in such works is inexhaustible both among children and among their parents, and Russian writers of fairy tales have made a worthy contribution to the common creative work. It should be remembered that a literary fairy tale differs from folklore in several ways. First of all, the fact that it has a specific author. There are also differences in the way the material is conveyed and the author's clear position, the use of plots and images, which make it possible to say that this genre has the right to complete independence.

Pushkin's Poetic Tales

If you make a list of fairy tales by Russian writers, it will take more than one sheet of paper. Moreover, creations were written not only in prose, but also in verse. A vivid example here is A. Pushkin, who initially did not plan to compose children's works. But after a while, the poetic creations “About Tsar S altan”, “About the priest and his worker Balda”, “About the dead princess and the seven heroes”, “About the golden cockerel” added to the list of fairy tales of Russian writers. A simple and figurative form of presentation, memorable images, vivid plots - all this is characteristic of the work of the great poet. And these works are still included in the treasury of children's literature.

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Some other, no less famous, can be attributed to the literary tales of the period under consideration. Russian writers of fairy tales: Zhukovsky ("The War of Mice and Frogs"), Ershov ("The Little Humpbacked Horse"), Aksakov ("The Scarlet Flower") - made their worthy contribution to the development of the genre. And the great collector of folklore and interpreter of the Russian language Dal also wrote a certain number of fairy-tale works. Among them: "Crow", "Girl Snow Maiden", "About the woodpecker" and others. You can also recall other fairy tales of famous Russian writers: “The Wind and the Sun”, “The Blind Horse”, “The Fox and the Goat” by Ushinsky, “The Black Hen, or Underground Inhabitants” by Pogorelsky, “The Traveling Frog”, “The Tale of the Toad and the Rose” Garshin, "The Wild Landowner", "The Wise Minnow" by S altykov-Shchedrin. Of course, this is not a complete list.

Russian writers of fairy tales

Wrote literary fairy tales and Leo Tolstoy, and Paustovsky, and Mamin-Sibiryak, and Gorky, and many others. Among the most outstanding works, one can note the “Golden Key” by Alexei Tolstoy. The work was planned as a free retelling of "Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi. But here is the case when the alteration surpassed the original - this is how many Russian-speaking critics evaluate the writer's work. The wooden boy Pinocchio, familiar to everyone from childhood, won for a long timehearts of young readers and their parents with their spontaneity and brave heart. We all remember Pinocchio's friends: Malvina, Artemon, Pierrot. And his enemies: the evil Karabas and the nasty Duremar, the cat Basilio and the fox Alice. The vivid images of the characters are so peculiar and original, recognizable that once you read Tolstoy's work, you remember them for the rest of your life.

Revolutionary tales

The creation of Yuri Olesha "Three Fat Men" can be attributed to them with confidence. In this tale, the author reveals the theme of the class struggle against the background of such eternal values as friendship, mutual assistance; the characters of the heroes are distinguished by courage and revolutionary impulse. And the work of Arkady Gaidar "Malchish-Kibalchish" tells about a difficult period for the formation of the Soviet state - the civil war. The boy is a bright, memorable symbol of that era of struggle for revolutionary ideals. It is no coincidence that these images were later used by other authors, for example, in the work of the sixties children's poet Iosif Kurlat, who in the fairy tale-poem "The Song of the Malchish-Kibalchish" revived the bright image of the hero.

Russian storytellers of the Soviet era

These authors include Evgeny Schwartz, who gave literature such fairy tales-plays as "The Naked King", "Shadow" - based on Andersen's works. And his original creations "Dragon" and "Ordinary Miracle" (at first banned from productions) forever entered the treasury of Soviet literature.

To poetryThe genre can also be attributed to the tales of Korney Chukovsky: “Fly-Tsokotuha”, “Moydodyr”, “Barmaley”, “Aibolit”, “Cockroach”. To this day they are the most widely read fairy tales in Russia for children of all ages. Instructive and daring, brave and monstrous images and characters of the heroes of Chukovsky's works are recognizable from the first lines. And the poems of Marshak, and the delightful work of Kharms? And Zakhoder, Moritz and Kurlat? It is impossible to list them all in this rather short article.

Modern evolution of the genre

It can be said that the literary fairy tale genre evolved from folklore, in a sense exploiting its plots and images of characters. So at present, many Russian writers of fairy tales are evolving into science fiction writers, giving birth to good works in the fashionable fantasy style. These authors, probably, include Yemets, Gromyko, Lukyanenko, Fry, Oldie and many others. This is a worthy replacement for the previous generations of authors of literary fairy tales.