A short list of Pushkin's works for children

It's no secret that Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is the founder and systematizer of the Russian literary language. It is also called the sun of Russian poetry, but few people wonder why.

The poet-patriot

This great Russian poet was a true patriot of his country. He hated the serfdom, considered it the greatest problem of Russian society. In his opinion, this system did not also provide sufficient education and training for the younger generation, both the serf and the upper class, because children are the future basis of society and the people.

Pushkin criticized the imitation of all foreign, infatuation with foreign languages, when his vast country is still not thoroughly studied and not known. The poet loved Russia sincerely, with all his heart, and this love permeates everything that Pushkin wrote, works known for children and adults.

Actually, most of his works for children were not written specifically for them. For example, fairy tales appeared because the poet loved and carefully collected folk folklore. The first list of Pushkin's works for children came out in the early twentieth century as an attempt to systematize the heritage and pass it on to the younger generation. It was called "Pushkin for Children" and consisted of more than one hundred different works of the author: poems, novels, tales, essays. In this article, we compile a brief but basic list of Pushkin's works for children.

Tales loved from childhood

All Pushkin's tales originate in folk folklore, which the author carefully collected, systematized, processed and adapted for the reader, in some cases only the heroes or details remained from the original source. Thanks to the fairy tale-entry to the poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila" "At the seashore ..." every child knows about the oak with a golden chain, along which a learned cat walks, and also about mermaids, knights, a squirrel with golden nuts, a hut on chicken legs and other marvelous Things.

The author took the basis of the story from folk tales, changed some points, added something, and as a result, a delightful story with brave heroes and incredible events, which even the smallest readers will like. "The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights" is very similar in meaning to the "Snow White" brothers Grimm, other peoples also slip similar stories. But Pushkin's tale is permeated with original national Russian color. Just like "The Tale of the Priest and His Worker Balde", "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish", "The Tale of Tsar Saltan and His Glorious and Mighty Goddess Prince Gvidone and the Beautiful Princess of the Swans", "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel" - the most The best works of Pushkin for children in this category. Heroes of Pushkin's fairy tales are hardworking, kind and simple-hearted, spirituality and honesty are their main features.

A little about poems

In the list of Pushkin's works for children, it is necessary to make a "Song of Oleg's Wise". In it the author turns to the history of Ancient Rus. He depicted in detail the military life, customs and customs of the people of that time. Old Russian epics also inspired Alexander Sergeevich to write the poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila," in which he refers to "the traditions of deep antiquity".

The wicked sorcerer kidnapped the beautiful Lyudmila, and the hero Ruslan goes to rescue his beloved. The plot is clearly folklore. It is noteworthy that all the heroes are real, realistic, there is no absolute good or evil, all the actions of the heroes have a strong motivation and meaning that distinguishes all of Pushkin's works for children.

For older children: poems

In the school curriculum, many of Pushkin's works are necessarily studied. Poems for children, he did not write separately, but virtually all of his lyrics are distinguished by the simplicity and accessibility of the reader's perception of any age. It touches upon the most important topics for adolescents and young people: freedom, the Motherland, the first feelings, nature. Pushkin has a delightful landscape lyrics, which is permeated with tenderness, warmth and boundless love for Russian nature.

The list of Pushkin's works for children will be incomplete without such classical poems as "The sky was already breathing in the autumn", "Winter morning", "The village", "To the sea", "The Caucasus" and others. His poetry is distinguished by the clarity and simplicity of the language, the emotionality and colorfulness of the images, spirituality, all this is invariably popular with children of all ages.