The Cat Sanatorium

Sasha Cherny — a poet and writer of the Silver Age — is known to a wide circle of readers primarily for his adult lyrical and satirical works. But his pen also produced wonderful children’s stories, tales, and poems.

Sasha Cherny’s children’s prose is characterized by vivid imagery, a simple yet at the same time distinctive narrative style, subtle humor (and sometimes irony), and most of all—an unmistakable understanding of a child’s inner world.

The story “The Cat’s Sanatorium” tells of the life of a free cat who, by the will of fate, ends up in a cat reservation. Choosing freedom over a well-fed prison, he performs the impossible.