Fairy Tales

3 hrs. 47 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

Narrator Alexander Klyukvin

Description

The fairy tale genre in Saltykov-Shchedrin's work represents a kind of stratum — a distinctive summing-up of the satirist's creative output. Having absorbed both Western European and national Russian literary traditions, the author's fairy tales are original and distinctive.
In them, the fantastical is interwoven with the real, the comic with the tragic…

The Tale of How One Peasant Fed Two Generals
The Nag
The Wild Landowner
The Wise Gudgeon
The Self-Sacrificing Hare
The Bear in the Voivodeship
The Eagle-Patron of the Arts
The Lying Newspaper Man and the Credulous Reader
The Idealist Carp
Faithful Trezor
Virtues and Vices
The Liberal