The writer, as at the very beginning of his creative path, turns again to the Russian North he has come to love. The land of unafraid birds, endless forests, Berendey’s Grove and the Ship’s Wood—these images, carrying a fairytale beginning, have a perfectly real foundation.
With his whole life—his very way of being and all his art—Mikhail Mikhailovich showed that it is possible to make a fairy tale come true.
He revealed the extraordinary—to himself and to others—until the very last day of his life.