Little Russian fairy tales
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Little Russian fairy tales
14.99 €
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the name of Klavdiya Vladimirovna Lukashevich (1859–1931) was known to virtually everyone in Russia. She was the only children's writer who rivaled Lydia Charskaya in popularity, and was significantly more prolific than her rival and, according to Nikolai Chekhov, published twice as much as she should have. By 1908, the circulation of her works exceeded one and a half million copies. Klavdiya Vladimirovna wrote exclusively for children (however, in 1914 and 1918 she published two volumes of memoirs), from under her pen came stories, novellas, fairy tales, plays for children's and school theater, biographies of famous people, she compiled collections for reading, collections for family and school holidays dedicated to the anniversaries of writers, historical events, compiled anthologies, etc. Klavdiya Vladimirovna was a regular employee of many children's magazines of that time - "Children's reading", "Young reader", "Igrushechka", "Family evenings", "Shoots", "Rodnik", "Soulful word", as well as "Stock Exchange News" and others. Her book "Azbuka-seyatel and the first reading for school and family" and collections of stories "Barefoot team", "Grains", "Little Russian tales", "Tales for the youngest children", autobiographical stories "My sweet childhood" and "Living life is not a field to cross" enjoyed great popularity; some of the writer's most famous works were the stories "Birdwoman Agafya" and "Aksyutka-nanny". In addition to writing, Klavdia Vladimirovna was a practical teacher, a member of the "Russian Women's Mutual Charity Society", and during the First World War she maintained a ward for the wounded at the L. N. Tolstoy hospital at her own expense, and organized a shelter for children of front-line soldiers. In September 1906, Lukashevich became the godmother of the great composer and pianist Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich and took an active part in his life. During the Soviet era, Klavdiya Vladimirovna's popularity practically disappeared, her works were considered not to correspond to the spirit of the times; it was believed that she idealized the royal way of life, that her works were imbued with excessive romanticism and sentimentalism. This book includes Little Russian fairy tales translated, processed and collected by Klavdiya Vladimirovna from collections by A. S. Afanasyev, G. P. Danilevsky, I. Ya. Rudchenko, P. P. Chubinsky, Uncle Puf and others.
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- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Library of World Literature