Volshebnoe kol'tso: skazki [The Magic Ring. Folk Tales]

How many tales affected, how many epics were sung in the old northern houses! Grandmas and grandfathers showered their grandchildren with old gold verbal ... '- wrote Boris Shergin in his diary. With great respect for folklore, he collected this ?gold? of the Russian North - not only capacious, sharp words and phrases, but also intonation, the rhythm of the living voice of the narrator, the manner of its performance, that is, the music of oral creativity. And only after that the writer created his own distinctive fairy tales - leaving the folk story unchanged, he subordinated it to the laws of oral speech (for example, using a direct appeal to the reader or incomplete sentences) and at the same time supplemented it with invented neologisms, modern details, and sparkling humor. Maybe that's why it is not easy to illustrate Boris Shergin. You need a sense of tact, not to 'replay' the text itself, but to supplement it gently and unobtrusively. So, as the artist Vladimir Chaplya did, crea