Mamin-Sibiryak Dmitry Narkisovich

Alyonushka's tales

Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak

Alyonushka's tales

A. Chernyshev. "Alyonushka's Tales" by D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak

ALENUSHKIN'S TALES

Saying

A fairy tale about a brave Hare - long ears, slanting eyes, short tail

A fairy tale about Kozyavochka

The tale of Komar Komarovich - a long nose And

about furry Misha - short tail

Vanka's name day

A fairy tale about Sparrow Vorobeich, Ruff Ershovich and the cheerful chimney sweep Yasha

A fairy tale about how once upon a time the last fly

A fairy tale about Voronushka - a black little head and a yellow bird, Canary

Smarter than everyone else. Fairy tale

The Parable of Milk, Oat Porridge and gray cat Murke

It's time to sleep

"Alyonushka's Tales"

D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak

It is dark outside. Snowing. He fluttered the windows. Alyonushka, curled up in a ball, lies in bed. She never wants to fall asleep until dad tells a story.

Alyonushka's father, Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak, is a writer. He sits at the table, bending over his manuscript future book. So he gets up, comes closer to Alyonushka’s bed, sits down in a soft chair, begins to tell... The girl listens attentively about the stupid turkey who imagined that he was smarter than everyone else, about how the toys were collected for the name day and what came of it. The tales are wonderful, one more interesting than the other. But one of Alyonushka’s eyes is already asleep... Sleep, Alyonushka, sleep, beauty.

Alyonushka falls asleep with her hand under her head. And it's still snowing outside...

So they spent a long time together winter evenings- father and daughter. Alyonushka grew up without a mother; her mother died long ago. The father loved the girl with all his heart and did everything to make her have a good life.

He looked at his sleeping daughter and was reminded of his own childhood years. They took place in a small factory village in the Urals. At that time, serf workers still worked at the plant. They worked with early morning until late in the evening, but vegetated in poverty. But their masters and masters lived in luxury. Early in the morning, when workers were walking to the factory, troikas flew past them. It was after the ball, which lasted all night, that the rich people went home.

Dmitry Narkisovich grew up in a poor family. Every penny counted in the house. But his parents were kind, sympathetic, and people were drawn to them. The boy loved it when factory workers came to visit. They knew so many fairy tales and fascinating stories! Mamin-Sibiryak especially remembered the legend about the daring robber Marzak, who in ancient years hid in the Ural forest. Marzak attacked the rich, took their property and distributed it to the poor. And the tsarist police never managed to catch him. The boy listened to every word, he wanted to become as brave and fair as Marzak was.

The dense forest where, according to legend, Marzak once hid, began a few minutes' walk from the house. Squirrels were jumping in the branches of the trees, a hare was sitting at the edge of the forest, and in the thicket one could meet the bear himself. Future writer I explored all the paths. He wandered along the banks of the Chusovaya River, admiring the chain of mountains covered with spruce and birch forests. There was no end to these mountains, and therefore he forever associated with nature “the idea of ​​will, of wild space.”

The boy's parents taught him to love books. He was engrossed in Pushkin and Gogol, Turgenev and Nekrasov. A passion for literature arose in him early. At the age of sixteen he was already keeping a diary.

Years have passed. Mamin-Sibiryak became the first writer to paint pictures of life in the Urals. He created dozens of novels and stories, hundreds of stories. He lovingly portrayed in them the common people, their struggle against injustice and oppression.

Dmitry Narkisovich has many stories for children. He wanted to teach the children to see and understand the beauty of nature, the riches of the earth, to love and respect working person. “It’s a joy to write for children,” he said.

Mamin-Sibiryak also wrote down the fairy tales that he once told his daughter. He published them as a separate book and called it “Alyonushka’s Tales.”

These tales have bright colors sunny day, the beauty of generous Russian nature. Together with Alyonushka you will see forests, mountains, seas, deserts.

The heroes of Mamin-Sibiryak are the same as the heroes of many folk tales: shaggy clumsy bear, hungry wolf, cowardly hare, cunning sparrow. They think and talk to each other like people. But at the same time, these are real animals. The bear is depicted as clumsy and stupid, the wolf as angry, the sparrow as a mischievous, agile bully.

Names and nicknames help to introduce them better.

Here Komarishche - a long nose - is a big, old mosquito, but Komarishko - a long nose - is a small, still inexperienced mosquito.

Objects also come to life in his fairy tales. The toys celebrate the holiday and even start a fight. Plants talk. In the fairy tale “Time to Bed,” pampered garden flowers are proud of their beauty. They look like rich people in expensive dresses. But the writer prefers modest wildflowers.

Mamin-Sibiryak sympathizes with some of his heroes, and laughs at others. He writes with respect about the working person, condemns the slacker and the lazy.

The writer also did not tolerate those who are arrogant, who think that everything was created only for them. The fairy tale “How the Last Fly Lived” tells about one stupid fly who is convinced that the windows in houses are made so that she can fly into and out of rooms, that they only set the table and take out jam from the cupboard. in order to treat her that the sun shines for her alone. Well, of course, only a stupid, funny fly can think that way!

What do the lives of fish and birds have in common? And the writer answers this question with the fairy tale “About Sparrow Vorobeich, Ruff Ershovich and the cheerful chimney sweep Yasha.” Although the Ruff lives in the water, and the Sparrow flies through the air, both fish and birds equally need food, chase after a tasty morsel, suffer from the cold in winter, and in the summer they have a lot of troubles...

There is great power to act together, together. How powerful the bear is, but mosquitoes, if they unite, can defeat the bear (“The Tale about Komar Komarovich - a long nose and about shaggy Misha - a short tail”).

Of all his books, Mamin-Sibiryak especially valued Alyonushka’s Tales. He said: “This is my favorite book - love itself wrote it, and therefore it will outlive everything else.”

Andrey Chernyshev

ALENUSHKIN'S TALES

Saying

Bye-bye-bye...

One of Alyonushka’s eyes is asleep, the other is watching; One ear of Alyonushka is sleeping, the other is listening.

Sleep, Alyonushka, sleep, beauty, and dad will tell fairy tales. It seems that everyone is here: the Siberian cat Vaska, the shaggy village dog Postoiko, the gray Little Mouse, the Cricket behind the stove, the motley Starling in a cage, and the bully Rooster.

Russian prose writer and playwright Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak (1852-1912) entered literature with a series of essays about the Urals. Many of his first works were signed under the pseudonym “D. Siberian". Although his real name is Mamin.

The writer's first major work was the novel Privalov's Millions (1883), which was a great success at that time. In 1974, this novel was filmed.
In 1884 in the magazine " Domestic notes“His novel “Mountain Nest” was published, which established Mamin-Sibiryak’s reputation as an outstanding realist writer.
Latest large works writer - the novels “Characters from the Life of Pepko” (1894), “Shooting Stars” (1899) and the story “Mumma” (1907).

Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak

In his works, the writer depicted the life of the Urals and Siberia in the post-reform years, the capitalization of Russia and the associated breakdown public consciousness, norms of law and morality.
“Alyonushka’s Tales” were written by the author already in mature years– in 1894-1896. for his daughter Alyonushka (Elena).

D. Mamin-Sibiryak with his daughter Alyonushka

The works of Mamin-Sibiryak for children are still relevant today, because they have an informative plot, are truthful, and are written in a good style. Children will learn about the difficult life of that time and get acquainted with wonderful descriptions of the writer’s native Ural nature. The author took children's literature very seriously, because... believed that through it the child communicates with the natural world and the world of people.
Mamin-Sibiryak’s tales also had a pedagogical goal: raising fair, honest children. He believed that words of wisdom thrown on fertile soil will definitely sprout.
Mamin-Sibiryak's tales are varied and designed for children of any age. The author did not embellish life, but always found warm words that convey kindness and moral strength ordinary people. His love for animals cannot leave anyone indifferent; children's hearts vividly respond to this feeling.

D. Mamin-Sibiryak “Alyonushka’s Tales”

Fairy tales from this collection are available to children starting from kindergarten or younger school age. His fairy tales themselves speak to children through the lips of animals and birds, plants, fish, insects and even toys. They help to instill in children hard work, modesty, the ability to make friends, and a sense of humor. The nicknames of the main characters alone are worth it: Komar Komarovich - long nose, Ersh Ershovich, Brave Bunny- long ears...
The collection “Alyonushka’s Tales” includes 11 fairy tales:

1. "Saying"
2. “The Tale of the Brave Hare – Long Ears, Slanting Eyes, Short Tail”
3. “The Tale about Kozyavochka”
4. “The tale about Komar Komarovich - a long nose and about shaggy Misha - a short tail”
5. “Vanka’s name day”
6. “The Tale of Sparrow Vorobeich, Ruff Ershovich and the cheerful chimney sweep Yasha”
7. “The Tale of How the Last Fly Lived”
8. “The Tale of Voronushka – the black little head and the yellow bird Canary”
9. “Smarter than everyone else”
10. “The Parable of Milk, Oatmeal Porridge and Gray Cat Murka”
11. “Time for bed”

D. Mamin-Sibiryak “The Tale of the Brave Hare - long ears, slanting eyes, short tail”

This is very good fairy tale, just like everyone else.
Everyone has small weaknesses, but what matters is how others treat them.
Let's read the beginning of the fairy tale.
“A bunny was born in the forest and was afraid of everything. A twig will crack somewhere, a bird will fly up, a lump of snow will fall from a tree - the bunny is in hot water.
The bunny was afraid for a day, afraid for two, afraid for a week, afraid for a year; and then he grew up big, and suddenly he got tired of being afraid.
- I'm not afraid of anyone! - he shouted to the whole forest. “I’m not afraid at all, that’s all!”
The old hares gathered, the little bunnies came running, the old female hares tagged along - everyone listened to how the Hare boasted - long ears, slanting eyes, a short tail - they listened and did not believe their own ears. There has never been a time when the hare was not afraid of anyone.
- Hey, slanting eye, aren’t you afraid of the wolf?
“I’m not afraid of the wolf, or the fox, or the bear—I’m not afraid of anyone!”
See how other animals in the forest react to this statement. They did not laugh at the hare or criticize him, although everyone understood that these words were spoken by the hare rashly and thoughtlessly. But good animals They supported him in this impulse, everyone had fun. We read further: “This turned out to be quite funny. The young hares giggled, covering their faces with their front paws, the kind old hare women laughed, even the old hares, who had been in the paws of a fox and tasted wolf teeth, smiled. A very funny hare!.. Oh, how funny! And everyone suddenly felt happy. They started tumbling, jumping, jumping, racing each other, as if everyone had gone crazy.”
According to the laws fairy tale plot a wolf was supposed to appear here at that moment. He appeared. And he decided that now he would eat the hare.
The hare, seeing the wolf, jumped in fear and fell straight on the wolf, “rolled head over heels on the wolf’s back, turned over again in the air and then gave such a screeching sound that it seemed like he was ready to jump out of his own skin.” And the wolf, out of fear, also ran, but in the other direction: “when the Hare fell on him, it seemed to him that someone had shot at him.”
As a result, the animals found a hare under a bush, almost alive from fear, but they saw the situation completely differently:
- Well done, oblique! - all the hares shouted in one voice. - Oh, yes, a scythe!.. You cleverly scared the old Wolf. Thank you brother! And we thought you were bragging.
The brave Hare immediately perked up. He crawled out of his hole, shook himself, narrowed his eyes and said:
- What would you think! Oh you cowards...
From that day on, the brave Hare began to believe that he was really not afraid of anyone.

D. Mamin-Sibiryak “The Tale of Sparrow Vorobeich, Ruff Ershovich and the cheerful chimney sweep Yasha”

Vorobey Vorobeich and Ersh Ershovich lived in great friendship. Each time they met, they invited each other to visit, but it turned out that neither of them could live in the circumstances of the other. Sparrow Vorobeich said:
- Thank you brother! I would love to come visit you, but I’m afraid of water. It’s better if you come and visit me on the roof...
And Yorsh Ershovich responded to his friend’s invitation:
- No, I can’t fly, and I’m suffocating on the air. It’s better to swim on the water together. I'll show you everything...
And so they were good friends, loved to talk, despite the fact that they were completely different. But their troubles and joys were similar. “For example, winter: how cold poor Sparrow Vorobeich is! Wow, what cold days there were! It seems that my whole soul is ready to freeze out. Sparrow Vorobeich gets ruffled, tucks his legs under him and sits. The only salvation is to climb into a pipe somewhere.” “Ruff Ershovich also had a hard time in the winters. He climbed somewhere deeper into the pool and dozed there for whole days. It’s dark and cold, and you don’t want to move.”
Sparrow Vorobeich had a friend - chimney sweep Yasha. “Such a cheerful chimney sweep - he sings all the songs. He cleans the pipes and hums. Moreover, he will sit down on the very ridge to rest, take out some bread and eat it, and I pick up the crumbs. We live soul to soul. “I also like to have fun,” Vorobey Vorobeich told his friend.

Illustration by Yu. Vasnetsov

But there was a quarrel between the friends. One summer, a chimney sweep finished his work and went to the river to wash off the soot. There he heard a strong scream and hubbub, the angry Vorobey Vorobeich shouted loud accusations at his friend, and he himself was all disheveled, angry... It turns out that Vorobey Vorobeich got a worm and carried it home, and Ersh Ershovich took possession of this worm by deception, shouting: "Hawk!". Sparrow Vorobeich released the worm. And Yorsh Ershovich ate it. So there was a fuss about this. In the end, it turned out that Vorobey Vorobeich had acquired the worm by dishonest means, and besides, he had stolen a piece of bread from the chimney sweep. All the birds, big and small, rushed after the thief. Further, the events of the fairy tale unfolded like this: “There was a real dump. Everyone just tears it up, only the crumbs fly into the river; and then the edge also flew into the river. At this point the fish grabbed onto it. A real fight began between the fish and the birds. They tore the whole edge into crumbs and ate all the crumbs. As it is, there is nothing left of the edge. When the edge was eaten, everyone came to their senses and everyone felt ashamed. They chased the thief Sparrow and ate the stolen piece along the way.”
And Alyonushka, having learned about this story, concluded:
Oh, how stupid they all are, both the fish and the birds! And I would share everything - both the worm and the crumb, and no one would quarrel. Recently I divided four apples... Dad brings four apples and says: “Divide in half - for me and Lisa.” I divided it into three parts: I gave one apple to dad, the other to Lisa, and took two for myself.”
The fairy tales of Mamin-Sibiryak emanate warmth and childhood. I want to read them aloud and see the happy and kind faces of the children.
In addition to the cycle “Alyonushka’s Tales,” the writer has other fairy tales:

1. "Gray Neck"
2. “Forest Tale”
3. “The Tale of the Glorious King Pea”
4. "Stubborn goat"

D. Mamin-Sibiryak “Gray Neck”

“The Gray Neck” is not only the writer’s most famous fairy tale, but also the most famous work in children's literature. She

attracts with its touchingness, evokes a desire to protect the weak and helpless, to help those in need in need. The natural world in this tale is depicted in unity and harmony with the human world.
... Migratory birds were getting ready to go on the road. Only in the family of Duck and Drake there was no joyful pre-flight bustle - they had to come to terms with the thought that their Gray Neck would not fly south with them, she would have to spend the winter here alone. Back in the spring, her wing was damaged: a Fox crept up to the brood and grabbed the duckling. The Old Duck boldly rushed at the enemy and fought off the duckling; but one wing turned out to be broken.
The Duck was very sad that Gray Neck would have a hard time being alone, she even wanted to stay with her, but Drake reminded her that, besides Gray Neck, they had other children to take care of.
And so the birds flew away. Mother taught Gray Neck:
- You stay near that bank where the spring runs into the river. The water there won't freeze all winter...
Soon Gray Neck met the Hare, who also considered the Fox his enemy and was as defenseless as Gray Neck, and saved his life by constant flight.
Meanwhile, the hole in which the duck was swimming was getting smaller and smaller due to the advancing ice. “Seraya Neck was in despair because only the very middle of the river, where a wide ice hole had formed, did not freeze. There was no more than fifteen fathoms of free space left to swim. Gray Neck’s grief reached its final pitch when the Fox appeared on the shore - it was the same Fox who broke her wing.”

The fox began to hunt for the duck and lure it to itself.
The old hunter saved Gray Neck. He went out hunting for a hare or a fox for his old woman's fur coat. “The old man took the Gray Neck from the wormwood and put it in his bosom. “I won’t tell the old woman anything,” he thought as he headed home. “Let her fur coat and collar take a walk in the forest together.” The main thing is that the granddaughters will be so happy.”
And how happy little readers are when they learn about the salvation of Gray Neck!

"Alyonushka's Tales"- this is a collection fairy tales for the children of Mamin-Sibiryak, which he dedicated to his sick daughter Alyonushka. Just like her mother, she lived only a short time and died of tuberculosis.

Gray Neck

The story is about a little duck whose wing was broken by the Fox and she could not fly south with her family. Left all alone in the winter, she met the Hare and met the Fox. But everything ended well, as an old hunter came to her aid. He took pity on her and took her with him.

A tale about a brave Hare - long ears, slanting eyes, short tail

The story is about a hare who is tired of being afraid of everyone. He began to boast and amused everyone by saying that he would eat the wolf. The noise attracted the wolf's attention and he decided to eat the boastful Bunny. But he saw him and, jumping high, landed right on the gray one. The hare ran in one direction, the wolf in the other. Both were scared. So the brave Hare himself believed in his courage.

A fairy tale about Kozyavochka

The story is about the life and adventures of Kozyavochka, a small female insect. At first, she is just born and believes that everything is around her. But then she finds out that the world is not so simple and that evil bumblebees, clever worms, dangerous frogs, fish and birds live in it. But, despite all this, she lived a happy summer and even started a family. And, tired, she fell asleep for the whole winter.

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About the book “Alenushka’s Tales” Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak

The book "Alenushka's Tales" consists of short stories, which D. Mamin-Sibiryak came up with for his beloved daughter. Like all children, little Alyonushka loved to listen to new fairy tales before bed, which her father gladly composed for her. All the stories collected in the book “Alenushka’s Tales” are deeply imbued with love; not only the writer’s feelings for the child are reflected here, but also his attitude towards nature and life. Both children and adults will enjoy reading them, because in addition to endless love and kindness, D. Mamin-Sibiryak put something instructive into each fairy tale.

At first glance, it seems that the reader will not find anything new here. The author suggests recalling the most simple things: the values ​​of friendship, the power of mutual assistance, courage and sincerity. Life can bring unpleasant surprises, but any difficulties can be overcome. By teaming up with friends, a person becomes much stronger. This way he can solve any problems, defeat enemies and live a better life. We value courage, but despise talkers and braggarts. It would seem that there is nothing new in these truths, but perhaps from time to time each of us should remember them when analyzing our actions.

D. Mamin-Sibiryak in his book “Alenushkin’s Tales” generously endows life, feelings and emotions not only with animals, but also with toys and things. This may surprise you at first, but as you continue reading, you realize that the author’s talent has allowed all the characters to have their own character and history. The animal heroes are revealed especially deeply in the collection “Alyonushka’s Tales”. Veterinary education helped the author talk about their lives as warmly as if they were his friends or close acquaintances. The reader can easily imagine these images, Dmitry Narkisovich was able to describe them so vividly.

All the fairy tales that you will find in this amazing collection amaze with the abundance of goodness and warmth of soul. They not only allow you to feel the joy and satisfaction of a well-written text, but also make the reader feel the great love living in the heart of the storyteller, and imagine yourself as little Alyonushka, for whom all these stories were invented.

The book is easy to read; it is written in a somewhat outdated, but simple and understandable language for children. All the fairy tales included in this collection are interesting and unusual, and many of them make you not just smile, but also think about life, attitude towards nature, happiness and loneliness.

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Biography Mamin-Sibiryak Dmitry Narkisovich

Mamin-Sibiryak Dmitry Narkisovich (1852 - 1912) - famous Russian writer, ethnographer, prose writer, playwright and storyteller.

Mamin-Sibiryak ( real name Mamin) was born on November 6, 1852 in the Visimo-Shaitansky factory village of the Verkhoturye district of the Perm province, 140 km from Nizhny Tagil. This village, located in the depths Ural mountains, was founded by Peter I, and the rich merchant Demidov built an iron factory here. The father of the future writer was the factory priest Narkis Matveevich Mamin (1827-1878). The family had four children. They lived modestly: my father received a small salary, little more than a factory worker. For many years he taught children for free at a factory school. “Without work, I never saw my father or mother. Their day was always full of work,” recalled Dmitry Narkisovich.

From 1860 to 1864 Mamin-Sibiryak studied in the Visimskaya village primary school for the children of workers, located in a large hut. When the boy was 12 years old, his father took him and his older brother Nikolai to Yekaterinburg and sent them to a religious school. True, the wild bursat morals had such an effect on the impressionable child that he fell ill, and his father took him away from school. With great joy, Mamin-Sibiryak returned home and for two years he felt completely happy: reading alternated with wanderings in the mountains, spending the night in the forest and in the houses of mine workers. Two years flew by quickly. The father did not have the means to send his son to the gymnasium, and he was again taken to the same bursa.

He received a home education, then studied at the Visim school for children of workers, later at the Yekaterinburg Theological School (1866-1868) and at the Perm Theological Seminary (1868-1872).
His first creative attempts date back to his stay here.

In the spring of 1871, Mamin moved to St. Petersburg and entered the medical-surgical academy in the veterinary department, and then transferred to medicine. In 1874, Mamin passed the university exam and spent about two years at the Faculty of Science.

Began publishing in 1875.
The beginnings of talent, a good acquaintance with nature and the life of the region are noticeable in this work.
The author's style is already clearly outlined in them: the desire to depict nature and its influence on people, sensitivity to the changes taking place around them.

In 1876, Mamin-Sibiryak switched to law, but did not complete the course here either. He studied at the Faculty of Law for about a year. Excessive work, poor nutrition, lack of rest broke the young body. He developed consumption (tuberculosis). In addition, due to financial difficulties and his father’s illness, Mamin-Sibiryak was unable to pay the tuition fee and was soon expelled from the university. In the spring of 1877, the writer left St. Petersburg. The young man reached out to the Urals with all his heart. There he recovered from his illness and found strength for new works.

Once in his native place, Mamin-Sibiryak collects material for a new novel from Ural life. Trips around the Urals and the Urals expanded and deepened his knowledge of folk life. But new novel, conceived back in St. Petersburg, had to be postponed. My father fell ill and died in January 1878. Dmitry remained the only breadwinner big family. In search of work, as well as to educate his brothers and sister, the family moved to Yekaterinburg in April 1878. But even in a large industrial city, the dropout student failed to get a job. Dmitry began giving lessons to lagging schoolchildren. The tedious work was poorly paid, but Mamin turned out to be a good teacher, and he soon gained fame as the best tutor in the city. He did not leave in a new place and literary work; When there was not enough time during the day, I wrote at night. Despite financial difficulties, he ordered books from St. Petersburg.

14 years of the writer’s life (1877-1891) pass in Yekaterinburg. He marries Maria Yakimovna Alekseeva, who became not only a wife and friend, but also an excellent adviser on literary issues. During these years, he makes many trips around the Urals, studies literature on history, economics, ethnography of the Urals, immerses himself in folk life, communicates with “simple people” who have a huge life experience, and was even elected as a member of the Yekaterinburg City Duma. Two long trips to the capital (1881-1882, 1885-1886) strengthened literary connections writer: he meets Korolenko, Zlatovratsky, Goltsev and others. During these years he writes and publishes a lot short stories, essays.

But in 1890, Mamin-Sibiryak divorced his first wife, and in January 1891 he married a talented artist from the Yekaterinburg drama theater Maria Moritsovna Abramova and moves with her to St. Petersburg, where he takes place final stage his life. Here he soon became close to the populist writers - N. Mikhailovsky, G. Uspensky and others, and later, at the turn of the century, with the greatest writers of the new generation - A. Chekhov, A. Kuprin, M. Gorky, I. Bunin, highly who appreciated his works. A year later (March 22, 1892), his dearly beloved wife Maria Moritsevna Abramova dies, leaving her sick daughter Alyonushka in the arms of her father, shocked by this death.

Mamin-Sibiryak took children's literature very seriously. He called a children's book a “living thread” that takes the child out of the nursery and connects him with the wider world of life. Addressing writers, his contemporaries, Mamin-Sibiryak urged them to truthfully tell children about the life and work of the people. He often said that only an honest and sincere book is beneficial: “A children’s book is a spring Sunbeam, which awakens the dormant powers of a child’s soul and causes the seeds thrown onto this fertile soil to grow.”

Children's works are very diverse and intended for children of different ages. The younger children know Alyonushka's Tales well. Animals, birds, fish, insects, plants and toys live and talk happily in them. For example: Komar Komarovich - long nose, Shaggy Misha - short tail, Brave Hare - long ears - slanting eyes - short tail, Sparrow Vorobeich and Ruff Ershovich. Talking about the funny adventures of animals and toys, the author skillfully combines fascinating content with useful information, kids learn to observe life, they develop feelings of camaraderie and friendship, modesty and hard work. Mamin-Sibiryak’s works for older children tell about the life and work of workers and peasants in the Urals and Siberia, about the fate of children working in factories, fields and mines, about young travelers along the picturesque slopes of the Ural Mountains. Wide and diverse world, the life of man and nature are revealed to young readers in these works. Mamin-Sibiryak’s story “Emelya the Hunter,” which was awarded an international prize in 1884, was highly appreciated by readers.

Many works of Mamin-Sibiryak have become classics of world literature for children, revealing the high simplicity, noble naturalness of feelings and love of life of their author, who inspires with the poetic skill of domestic animals, birds, flowers, insects (collection of stories Children's Shadows, 1894; textbook stories of Emel- hunter, 1884; Winter hut on Studenoy, 1892; Gray Neck, 1893; Alyonushkin's tales, 1894-1896).

The last years of his life the writer was seriously ill. On October 26, 1912, his fortieth anniversary was celebrated in St. Petersburg creative activity, but Mamin already had a bad reaction to those who came to congratulate him - a week later, on November 15, 1912, he died. Many newspapers carried obituaries. The Bolshevik newspaper Pravda dedicated a special article to Mamin-Sibiryak, in which it noted the great revolutionary significance of his works: “A bright, talented, warm-hearted writer has died, under whose pen the pages of the past of the Urals came to life, an entire era of the march of capital, predatory, greedy, who knew no restraint. not with anything". “Pravda” highly appreciated the writer’s achievements in children’s literature: “He was attracted by the pure soul of a child, and in this area he gave a number of wonderful essays and stories.”

D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak was buried at the Nikolskoye cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra; two years later, the suddenly deceased daughter of the writer “Alyonushka”, Elena Dmitrievna Mamina (1892-1914), was buried nearby. In 1915, a granite monument with a bronze bas-relief was erected on the grave. And in 1956, the ashes and monument of the writer, his daughter and wife, M.M. Abramova, were moved to the Literatorskie bridge of the Volkovsky cemetery. On the grave monument of Mamin-Sibiryak the words are carved: “To live a thousand lives, to suffer and rejoice in a thousand hearts - that’s where real life and real happiness."