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LEO TOLSTOY’S WORKS FOR CHILDREN

Summary/Abstract: In the article the author discussed Leo Tolstoy’s works devoted for childen. The great writer’s interest in this field of literature was not accidental. It was already in the fifties, or at the beginning of his literary career, that he included fragments of his works in the writings devoted to young readers. In this way to the childern’s hands were given Childhood, Boyhood Years and Sevastopol Stories. The second period of interest in the уoung reader are the seventies and is connected with the paedagogical activity of the writer. At the time was written the famous Azbukaon which Tolstoy worked for about fourteen years. Within this work the author included more than 300 stories and readers systematized in one of the sections of the book. This section included proverbs, puzzles, fables, bylinas (ancient Russian epic folk songs) and stories of various popularized scientific subjects. As a source material Tolstoy used folk Russian works and folklore of other nations (among other things Arabic and Perrain). Tolstoy’s work, to which the author attached importance, great importance, was published in 1872. However, it did not have due appreciation, in this connection Tolstoy published in 1875 a new version entitled The New Azbuka. It closes the second period of literary activities for young readers. The fruit and the crowning of this period was one of the stories in Azbuka which the author considered to be the most perfect with respect of style and which was to serve as a model for the further literary activity. This was the story The Caucasian captive. The final period of Tolstoy’s activity in the field of literature for children and pedagogical literature falls to the 90s and brings his opinion On religious education (1899).

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