Fables for Children: Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Władysław Podkowiński, Vasily Perov and Ivan Shishkin. Short fables, natural-science tales and stories for peasant children, written by Tolstoy for the school he ran on his own estate. He composed them in the early 1870s, between War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and rewrote each until a child could hear it once and repeat it. "The Lion and the Dog" and the accounts of how a tree grows are the two things every Russian child still knows by heart. Fifty-six plates of Russian genre painting by Perov and Savrasov, from peasant children on the ice to hunters at rest, mirror the world Tolstoy wrote for.
Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Władysław Podkowiński, Vasily Perov and Ivan Shishkin. Short fables, natural-science tales and stories for peasant children, written by Tolstoy for the school he ran on his own estate. He composed them in the early 1870s, between War and Peace ...
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Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian novelist born at Yasnaya Polyana, south of Moscow. He served as an artillery officer in the Caucasus and at the siege of Sevastopol, and in later life renounced property and copyright. His works include The Cossacks, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian novelist born at Yasnaya Polyana, south of Moscow. He served as an artillery officer in the Caucasus and at the siege of Sevastopol, and in later life renounced property and copyright. His works include The Cossacks, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and The Deat...
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