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The article is devoted to the popular fairy tale writer - D.N. Mamin-Siberian. You will learn biographical information about the author, a list of his works, and also get acquainted with interesting annotations that reveal the essence of some fairy tales.

Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak. Biography. Childhood and youth

Dmitry Mamin was born on November 6, 1852. His father Narkis was a priest. Dima's mother paid much attention to the upbringing of Dima. When he grew up, his parents sent him to a school where the children of the workers of the Visimo-Shaitan plant studied.

Dad really wanted his son to follow in his footsteps. At first, everything went as Narkis had planned. He entered the theological seminary in Perm and studied there for a whole year as a student. However, the boy realized that he did not want to devote his whole life to the cause of the priest, and therefore decided to leave the seminary. The father was extremely dissatisfied with the behavior of his son and did not share his decision. The tense situation in the family forced Dmitry to leave home. He decided to go to St. Petersburg.

Trip to St. Petersburg

Here he wanders around the medical facilities. During the year he trained as a veterinarian, after which he moved to the medical department. Then he entered St. Petersburg University at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, after which he began to practice law.

As a result of six years of "walking" in different faculties, he never received a single diploma. During this period of time, he realizes that with all his heart he wants to become a writer.

From under his pen, the first work is born, which is called "Secrets of the Dark Forest". Already in this work one can see his creative potential and outstanding talent. But not all of his works immediately became masterpieces. His novel "In the whirlpool of passions", which was published in a small circulation magazine under the pseudonym E. Tomsky, was criticized to the nines.

Homecoming

At the age of 25, he returns to his homeland and writes new compositions under the pseudonym Sibiryak, so as not to be associated with the loser E. Tomsky.

In 1890, his divorce from his first wife followed. He marries the actress M. Abramova. Together with his new wife, Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak moves to St. Petersburg. Their happy marriage did not last long. The woman died immediately after the birth of her daughter. The girl was named Alyonushka. It was thanks to his beloved daughter that Mamin-Sibiryak opened up to readers as a charming storyteller.

It is important to note such an interesting fact: some of the works of Mamin-Sibiryak were published under the pseudonyms Onik and Bash-Kurt. He died at the age of sixty.

List of works by Mamin-Sibiryak

• "Alyonushka's Tales".
• "Balaburda".
• "Spit".
• "In the stone well".
• "Wizard".
• "In the mountains".
• "In teaching".
• "Emelya the hunter".
• "Green War".
• Series "From the distant past" ("The Road", "The Execution of Fortunka", "Illness", "The Story of a Sawyer", "Beginner", "Book").
• Legends: "Baimagan", "Maya", "Khantygay's Swan".
• "Forest fairy tale".
• "Medvedko".
• "On a way".
• "About node".
• "Fathers".
• "First Correspondence".
• "Hold on."
• "Underground".
• "Acceptant".
• "Siberian stories" ("Abba", "Depeche", "Dear guests").
• Fairy tales and stories for children: "Akbozat", "The rich man and Eremka", "In the wilderness", "Wintering on Studenaya".
• "Grey neck".
• "Stubborn goat".
• "Old Sparrow".
• "The Tale of the Glorious King Peas".

Annotations to the fairy tales of Mamin-Sibiryak

A real talented storyteller is Mamin-Sibiryak. Fairy tales of this author are very popular with children and adults. They feel soulfulness and special penetration. They were created for the beloved daughter, whose mother died in childbirth.

Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak

Stories and tales

Emelya the hunter

Far, far away, in the northern part of the Ural Mountains, in the impenetrable wilderness of the forest, the village of Tychki hid. There are only eleven yards in it, actually ten, because the eleventh hut stands quite separately, but near the forest itself. An evergreen coniferous forest rises up the steep side of the village like a crenellated wall. From behind the tops of the fir and fir trees one can see several mountains, which, as if on purpose, bypassed Tychki on all sides with huge bluish-gray ramparts. Closest to the others stands the hunchbacked Ruchevaya Mountain, with a gray hairy peak, which in cloudy weather is completely hidden in muddy gray clouds. Many springs and streams run down from the Brook Mountain. One such brook merrily rolls to Poking and winter and summer all drink cold, clear as a tear, water.

The huts in Tychki were built without any plan, as anyone wanted. Two huts stand above the river itself, one is on a steep mountainside, and the rest are scattered along the shore like sheep. There is not even a street in Tychky, and a beaten path travels between the huts. Yes, Tychkov’s peasants don’t even need the street at all, because there’s nothing to drive along it: in Tychki no one has a single cart. In summer, this village is surrounded by impenetrable swamps, swamps and forest slums, so that it can hardly be reached on foot only along narrow forest paths, and even then not always. In bad weather, mountain rivers play strongly, and it often happens that Tychkov’s hunters wait three days for the water to subside from them.

All Tychkov's men are note hunters. In summer and winter, they almost never leave the forest, since it is within easy reach. Every season brings with it certain prey: in winter they beat bears, martens, wolves, foxes; autumn - squirrel; in spring - wild goats; in the summer - every bird. In a word, all year round is hard and often dangerous work.

In that hut, which stands near the forest, the old hunter Emelya lives with his little granddaughter Grishutka. Emelya's hut has completely grown into the ground and looks at the light of God with just one window; the roof on the hut was rotten long ago, only collapsed bricks remained from the chimney. No fence, no gate, no barn - there was nothing near Emelin's hut. Only under the porch of unhewn logs hungry Lysko howls at night - one of the best hunting dogs in Tychki. Before each hunt, Emelya spends three days starving the unfortunate Lysk, so that he would better search for game and track down any animal.

“Grandfather… and grandfather!..” little Grishutka asked with difficulty one evening. - Now deer with calves go?

“With calves, Grishuk,” Emelya answered, finishing off new bast shoes.

- That would be, grandfather, to get a calf ... Eh?

- Wait a minute, we'll get it ... The heat has come, deer and calves will often hide from gadflies, then I'll get you a calf, Grishuk!

The boy did not answer, but only sighed heavily. Grishutka was only six years old, and now he was lying for the second month on a wide wooden bench under a warm reindeer skin. The boy caught a cold in the spring, when the snow was melting, and still could not get better. His swarthy little face grew pale and stretched out, his eyes became larger, his nose sharpened. Emelya saw how his granddaughter was melting by leaps and bounds, but did not know how to help grief. He gave some grass to drink, twice took it to the bath - the patient did not get better. The boy hardly ate anything. He chews a crust of black bread, and nothing more. There was salted goat meat left from the spring, but Grishuk couldn't even look at it.

“Look what you wanted: a calf ...” thought old Emelya, picking his bast shoes. “You have to get…”

Emelya was about seventy years old: gray-haired, hunched over, thin, with long arms. Emelya's fingers could hardly unbend, as if they were wooden branches. But he still walked briskly and obtained something by hunting. Only now the eyes began to strongly change the old man, especially in winter, when the snow sparkles and glitters all around with diamond dust. Because of Emelin's eyes, the chimney collapsed, and the roof rotted, and he himself often sits in his hut, when others are in the forest.

It’s time for the old man to rest, to a warm stove, and there’s no one to replace him, and then Grishutka found himself in his arms, he needs to be taken care of ... Grishutka’s father died three years ago from a fever, his mother was eaten by wolves when she and little Grishutka returned from winter villages to their hut. The child was saved by some miracle. The mother, while the wolves gnawed at her legs, covered the child with her body, and Grishutka remained alive.

The old grandfather had to raise a granddaughter, and then another illness happened. Misfortune never comes alone…

It was the last days of June, the hottest time in Tychky. There were only old and small houses left. Hunters have long dispersed through the forest for deer. In Yemelya's hut, poor Lysko had been howling from hunger for three days already, like a wolf in winter.

“It can be seen that Emelya is going to hunt,” the women said in the village.

It was true. Indeed, Emelya soon came out of his hut with a flintlock rifle in his hand, untied Lysk and headed for the forest. He was wearing new bast shoes, a knapsack with bread over his shoulders, a tattered caftan and a warm reindeer hat on his head. The old man had not worn a hat for a long time, and in winter and summer he went in his deerskin hat, which perfectly protected his bald head from the winter cold and from the summer heat.

- Well, Grishuk, get better without me ... - Emelya said to his grandson at parting. “Old Malanya will look after you while I go for the calf.

- Will you bring a calf, grandfather?

- I'll take it, he said.

- Yellow?

- Yellow...

- Well, I'll be waiting for you ... Look, don't miss when you shoot ...

Emelya had long been going for deer, but he still regretted leaving his grandson alone, but now he seemed to be better, and the old man decided to try his luck. Yes, and old Malanya will look after the boy - it’s still better than lying alone in a hut.

Emelya felt at home in the forest. Yes, and how could he not know this forest, when he wandered through it all his life with a gun and with a dog. All the paths, all the signs - the old man knew everything for a hundred miles around.

And now, at the end of June, it was especially good in the forest: the grass was beautifully full of blooming flowers, there was a wonderful aroma of fragrant herbs in the air, and from the sky the gentle summer sun looked, pouring bright light on the forest, and the grass, and the river murmuring in the sedge, and distant mountains.

Yes, it was wonderful and good all around, and Emelya stopped more than once to take a breath and look back.

The path along which he walked snaked up the mountain, passing large stones and steep ledges. A large forest was cut down, and young birch trees, honeysuckle bushes huddled near the road, and rowan trees spread out like a green tent. Here and there one came across thick copses of young spruce groves, which stood up like a green broom along the sides of the road and merrily bristled with their long-legged and shaggy branches. In one place, from half of the mountain, a wide view of the distant mountains and Tychki opened up. The village was completely hidden at the bottom of a deep mountain hollow, and the peasant huts looked like black dots from here.

Emelya, shielding his eyes from the sun, looked at his hut for a long time and thought about his granddaughter.

- Well, Lysko, look for ... - said Emelya, when they went down the mountain and turned off the path into a continuous dense spruce forest.

Lysk did not need to repeat the order. He knew his business perfectly and, sticking his sharp muzzle into the ground, disappeared into the dense green thicket. Only for a while his back with yellow spots flashed.

The hunt has begun.

Huge firs rose high to the sky with their sharp peaks. Shaggy branches intertwined with each other, forming an impenetrable dark vault above the hunter's head, through which only in some places a ray of sunshine would gleefully glance and burn yellowish moss or a wide leaf of fern with a golden spot. Grass does not grow in such a forest, and Emelya walked on soft yellowish moss, as if on a carpet.

A hunter wandered through this forest for several hours. Lysko sank into the water. Only occasionally will a branch crunch under your foot or a spotted woodpecker will fly over. Emelya carefully examined everything around: was there any trace somewhere, was the deer broken branches with its horns, was there a cloven hoof imprinted on the moss, was the grass on the hummocks eaten away. Beginning to get dark. The old man felt tired. It was necessary to think about lodging for the night.

“Probably, other hunters unraveled the deer,” thought Emelya.

But now Lysk's faint squeal was heard, and branches crackled ahead. Emelya leaned against the trunk of the spruce and waited.

It was a deer. A real ten-horned handsome deer, the most noble of the forest animals. There he put his branched horns to his very back and listens attentively, sniffing the air, so that in the next minute he will disappear like lightning into the green thicket.

Old Emelya saw a deer, but it was too far from him: a bullet could not reach him. Lysko lies in the thicket and does not dare to breathe in anticipation of a shot; he hears the deer, smells it ... Then a shot rang out, and the deer, like an arrow, rushed forward. Emelya missed, and Lysko howled from the hunger that was taking him away. The poor dog has already smelled the smell of fried venison, has seen the appetizing bone that the owner will throw at him, and instead he has to go to bed with a hungry belly. Very bad story...

The land of the Urals is generous with natural and human wealth. People who are the soul of their native land are endowed with great talents. One of these talents was D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak, whose fairy tales for children became widely known in Russia. The bright and poetic language of the writer was highly appreciated by lovers of Russian literature.

Many works of the indigenous Ural tell about the beauty of the dense forest and the active life of its inhabitants. While reading the realistic story "The Adopted", the kid will be able to get in touch with the world of wildlife and feel all the shades of the taiga splendor. In "Medvedko" the child will meet with a clubfoot baby, whose habits bring only troubles and problems to others.

The fictional stories of Mamin-Sibiryak are distinguished by interesting plots and a variety of characters. The heroes of his works were various inhabitants of the forest - from an ordinary mosquito to an old spruce. Duck Gray Neck and brave Hare are adored by several generations of readers. The writer also created fables similar to folklore. A striking example of such creativity is the tale of King Peas.

Parents and their kids will love the stories that Dmitry Narkisovich came up with for his daughter Elena. A loving father has written special pieces to help his little one fall asleep faster. By visiting the site, visitors can read Mamin-Sibiryak's "Alyonushka Tales" online or download these tales for their own library. After getting to know Komar Komarovich, Sparrow Vorobeich, Ersh Ershovich and other heroes, the child learns more about the life of the wild inhabitants of the taiga, who find themselves in various funny situations.

The talented writer created the most unique works, filling them with deep meaning, harmony and love. His stories are distinguished by a special richness of language and a unique style of narration. Fans of Russian literature highly appreciate the work of such a talent as Mamin-Sibiryak - both children and adults love to read the tales of this writer. The magical world of wildlife, invented by Dmitry Narkisovich, will not leave indifferent any person who first came into contact with the original atmosphere of the Ural taiga.

• Abba. Feature article. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 6.
• Averko. (Robbers. Essays I.). SS-1958, Volume 9.
• Autobiography. Memories. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Autobiographical note. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Ak-Bozat. Story. Stories and fairy tales for children. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Alyonushka's fairy tales. Stories and fairy tales for children. SS-1958, Volume 10.

• Baimagan. Legends. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Balaburda. Story.
• Head. From stories about dead children. Ural Stories, SS-1958, Volume 1
• Untitled. (1894) Novel
• White gold.
• Wart.
• The rich man and Eremka. Story. Stories and fairy tales for children. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Fighters. Essays on spring rafting on the Chusovaya River. Ural stories.
• Disease From the distant past. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Brothers Gordeev. Tale. (1891) Stories and novels 1893-1897, SS-1958, Volume 6.
• Stormy stream. (On the street.)

• In the swamp. From the notes of a hunter. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• In the whirlpool of passions. Roman (under the pseudonym E. Tomsky)
• In the backwoods. Story. Stories and fairy tales for children. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• In the mountains. Essay from the Ural life. Stories and essays 1881 -1884.
• In a stone well. Story.
• In stones. From a trip along the Chusovaya River. SS-1958, Volume 1
• Last time. Tale. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• In teaching. Story.
• "In thin souls ..." Story, Ural stories, SS-1958, Volume 1
• Vanka's name day. Alyonushka's fairy tales.
• Faithful slave. Tale. Ural stories.
• Spit. Stories and fairy tales for children. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Wizard. Story.
• Spring thunderstorms.
• Free man Yashka. Ural stories.
• "We all eat bread..." From life in the Urals. SS-1958, Volume 1
• Meeting.

• Chief Barin. Story. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Silly Oksya. Sketch. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 6.
• Talker. Feature article. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Mountain nest. (1884) Novel, SS-1958, Volume 1
• Thunderstorm. From hunting stories. Ural stories, SS-1958, Volume 3.

• Two wills.
• Grandfather Semyon Stepanych. From the distant past. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Dispatch. Story. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 6.
• Children's shadows.
• Wild happiness. Novel. (1884, original name "Vein").
• Good old time. Tale. Ural stories, SS-1958, Volume 4.
• Road. From the distant past. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Dear guests. Sketch. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 6.
• childhood friends. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Bad friend.

• Emelya the hunter. Stories and fairy tales for children. SS-1958, Volume 10.

• Vein. (1884, original title of the novel "Wild Happiness").

• Atrocity. Summer sketches. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Green war.
• Green mountains. From the distant past. Memories
• Winter hut on Studenaya. Stories and fairy tales for children. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Gold. Novel.
• Gold miners. Household chronicle in 4 acts. SS-1958, Volume 6.
• Golden fever.
• Golden night. From stories about gold. Stories and essays 1881 -1884.
• Scrofula. Essays on mining life. Ural stories.

• From the distant past. Memories. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• From the Ural antiquity. Story. Ural stories, SS-1958, Volume 4.
• Selected letters (59). SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Iyi. Holiday fantasy. Stories 1902-1907 SS-1958, Volume 9.
• Birthday boy.
• Influenza. Monologue. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 6.
• The story of one sawyer. Story. From the distant past. SS-1958, Volume 10.

• Execution of Fortunka. Story. From the distant past. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Kisey lady.
• Treasure. Story. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Combination. Story. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• End of the first part. From the distant past. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Book. From the distant past. Memories
• Picture book. From the distant past. Memories
• The breadwinner (From life at the Ural factories)
• Godson. Etude. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Grainy. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 6.

• Swan Khantygaya. Legends. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Legends (3). SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Forest. Psychological study. Ural stories, SS-1958, Volume 4.
• Forest fairy tale.
• Flight. From stories about the life of the Siberian fugitives. Ural stories, SS-1958, Volume 3.

• Mme Quist, Blix & Co. Feature article. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Mayan. Legends. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Maxim Benelyavdov. (1883) Tale.
• Raspberry Mountains. Story.
• Medvedko.
• Mizgir. Story. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Million.
• Morok. Feature article. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Mumma. Story. Stories 1902-1907 SS-1958, Volume 9.

• On the pass. From autumn motives. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• On the river Chusovaya
• On a way. (From the stories of an old hunter)
• At the edge of Asia. Essays from a provincial life. SS-1958, Volume 1
• On number six. Stories and novels 1893-1897, SS-1958, Volume 6.
• On the shihan. From a hunter's notebook. Ural stories, SS-1958, Volume 3.
• Nata. From summer stories. Stories and novels 1893-1897, SS-1958, Volume 6.
• Out of business. Story. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Don't specify. Story. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Newbie. From the distant past. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Overnight. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Night. Sketch. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 6.

• About the book. From the distant past. Memories
• Werewolf. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• General favorite of the public.
• Mischievous. Story. Ural stories.
• Near node.
• Osip Ivanovich.
• From the Urals to Moscow.
• There will be no answer. Story. Stories 1902-1907 SS-1958, Volume 9.
• Poison. Essay, Ural stories, SS-1958, Volume 3.
• Sliced ​​slice. Memories. From the distant past. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Badass eyebrows. Tale

• Falling stars.
• Pan Kopatchinskiy. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• First students. Story. Ural stories, SS-1958, Volume 4.
• The translator at the mines. Story. Ural stories, SS-1958, Volume 4.
• Letters (selected) (59). SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Pier mountain. Tale. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• At a cheap price. Chapter from a novel. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 6.
• On a new path.
• Under the house.
• Underground.
• Snowdrop. Feature article. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Correction of Dr. Osokin. Ural stories, SS-1958, Volume 4.
• Simply. Story. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 6.
• Time to sleep. Alyonushka's fairy tales.
• Last marks. (Robbers. Essays III.). SS-1958, Volume 9.
• Last branch. From Old Believer motifs. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Postoiko. Story. Stories and fairy tales for children. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Privalovsky millions. A novel in 5 parts.
• Foster. From the stories of an old hunter. Stories and fairy tales for children. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Mining boy. Story. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Parable about Milk, oatmeal Kashka and gray cat Murka. Alyonushka's fairy tales.
• Criminals.
• Seeing. From the distant past. SS-1958, Volume 10.

• Robber and criminal. (Robbers. Essays IV.). SS-1958, Volume 9.
• Robbers. Essays. SS-1958, Volume 9.
• Early shoots.
• Stories and fairy tales for children (10) . SS-1958, Volume 10.
• parental blood. Feature article. Ural stories, SS-1958, Volume 4.

• From hunger.
• Savka. (Robbers. Essays II.). SS-1958, Volume 9.
• Nugget. Story. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 6.
• Family joy. Story. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Seventh trumpet. Sketch. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 6.
• Gray neck. Stories and fairy tales for children. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Sisters. Sketch from the life of the Middle Urals. SS-1958, Volume 1
• Siberian eagles. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• A fairy tale about how the last Fly lived. Alyonushka's fairy tales.
• Tale about Sparrow Vorobeich, Ruff Ershovich and cheerful chimney sweep Yasha. Alyonushka's fairy tales.
• The tale about Komar Komarovich has a long nose and the shaggy Misha has a short tail. Alyonushka's fairy tales.
• Tale of the brave Hare - long ears, slanting eyes, short tail. Alyonushka's fairy tales.
• A fairy tale about Voronushka - a black little head and a yellow bird Canary. Alyonushka's fairy tales.
• The story about the goat. Alyonushka's fairy tales.
• Sokrat Ivanovich. Chapter from the novel "Iron Hunger". Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Prospectors. Story.
• Old people don't remember. Story. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Old sparrow. Story. Stories and fairy tales for children. SS-1958, Volume 10.
• Old devil. Story. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.

• A mysterious stranger. Feature article. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 6.
• Three ends. Ural chronicle.

• Surprised man. Feature article. Siberian stories, SS-1958, Volume 5.
• Smarter than everyone. Story. Alyonushka's fairy tales.
• Stubborn goat.

• Predatory bird. Story. Stories and novels 1893-1897, SS-1958, Volume 6.
• Bread. Novel.

• Traits from the life of Pepko. Novel

Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak is a wonderful Russian writer. When reminded of the name of the writer, his novels stand before us - "Privalovsky millions", "Mountain nest", "Bread", "Gold", "Three ends" , deeply and truthfully revealing the life of the Ural workers and peasants, the cruel exploitation of their labor by the owners of factories and mines. We also recall the wonderful "Ural Tales", in which the majestic nature of the Urals and Siberia, first revealed to readers by Mamin-Sibiryak, came to life.

Famous Mamin-Sibiryak and creativity for children. On the bookshelves of children's libraries, among the best books of Russian classical literature, there are also volumes of his works.

Works and books by Mamin-Sibiryak for children

Yes, Mamin-Sibiryak loved to write for children. He called children's book"a living thread that leads out of the children's room and connects with the rest of the world." “A children's book,” he wrote, “is a spring sunbeam that makes the dormant forces of the soul awaken and causes the seeds thrown on this fertile soil to grow. The book is for the child a window into the world, irresistibly beckoning to itself with the light of real knowledge and real science.

Their works for children the writer gave to the most advanced magazines of that time: "Children's Reading", later renamed "Young Russia", "Spring", "Voskhod", "Nature and People", in which such writers as A. Serafimovich, K. Stanyukovich were published , A. Chekhov and later M. Gorky.

The younger children loved his poetic "Alyonushka's Tales" . Animals and plants are also spiritualized in other fairy tales: "Grey Neck", "Green War", "Forest Fairy Tale", "Fireflies" . This artistic technique makes it possible for Mamin-Sibiryak to give children valuable information about the life of the animal and plant world and reveal important moral and moral issues in an entertaining story. Addressed to the youngest readers, these fairy tales evoke the activity of children's perception and expand the life outlook of the child.

In the writer's stories "Spit", "In learning" and "In a stone well" describes the fate of teenagers who are "learned" in handicraft workshops. The image of the twelve-year-old Proshka is especially memorable - the “spit” in the lapidary workshop. For 14 hours a day, idle in the darkest corner of the workshop, at the grinder, he turns a heavy wheel. He is sick and dying of tuberculosis. “The boy was dying at his wheel from emery dust, bad food and overwork, and yet he continued to work. And how many children die in this way in different workshops, both boys and girls! - the author exclaims indignantly. “And all this so that the rich can wear jewelry created at the cost of human life.”

In many of the stories of Mamin-Sibiryak, included in children's reading, the fate of people from the people is traced: shepherds - tamers of wild steppe horses (story "Makarka"), bogatyrs-rafters (stories "Balaburda" and "Freeman Vaska" ), mine workers ( "On a warm mountain", "Grandfather's gold" ). The author's attention is paid to showing the "robbers", that is, those rebels who unsuccessfully opposed the manufacturers, breeders and their minions.

Old hunters and forest watchmen are warmly depicted in children's stories. They live far from the villages in camps and zaimka, their only friends are animals and birds tamed by them. Connoisseurs of nature, they not only love it, but also protect it from aimless destruction. Such is the ninety-year-old Taras from the story "Adopted", and the rich village watchman from the story "The rich man and Eremka" , and Yeleska's lonely "Wintering on Studenaya" , and the forest watchman Sokhach, the hero of the story "Crimson Mountains" , and old Emelya from the story "Emelya the hunter".

All these heroes have common, deeply related features: love for nature, complete disinterestedness and resolute condemnation of the greed and selfishness of the owners.

The writer was deeply concerned about the education of children and youth. Sharply criticizing the way education was organized in the schools and gymnasiums of tsarist Russia, he protested against class restrictions in education and demanded broad public education. With great love, he depicts students, female students, teachers, doctors, scientists, inventors and other representatives of the intelligentsia, selflessly and selflessly working for the people.

The indignation of the writer was also caused by the organization of education in theological schools and seminaries. Having experienced all the savagery of the Yekaterinburg theological school - the bursa, where he was taken as a twelve-year-old child, he demanded the complete abolition of "this false system of education", saying that it brought "more harm to us than any European war."

A series of essays under the general title "From the Distant Past" - this is not only a vivid reproduction of the disgusting mores of the Bursa, but also a characteristic of the entire vicious pedagogy of bourgeois society.

Back in 1912, the Bolshevik Pravda gave a high assessment to the work of Mamin-Sibiryak, foreseeing the time when his works would receive well-deserved recognition from the broad masses of readers of the liberated socialist Motherland. The newspaper wrote: "A new reader and a new critic are born who will respectfully place your name in the place you deserve in the history of Russian society."