Instaweek: Tagging #pushkinsfairytales on the anniversary of Alexander Pushkin

To mark the anniversary of the writer’s birthday, we collected Instagram images tagged with #skazkipushkina that prove that Alexander Sergeevich has a permanent place in Russian hearts.

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Asked about the best Russian writer, most foreigners are sure to name Tolstoy, Dostoevsky or Chekhov. But Russians, despite their love and admiration for those three, are more likely to say Pushkin.

To mark the anniversary of the writer’s birthday, we collected Instagram images tagged with #skazkipushkina that prove that Alexander Sergeevich has a permanent place in Russian hearts.

It is Pushkin’s fairy tales that introduce children to the world and its fundamental laws: truth, friendship, good and evil.

Children dress up as Pushkin’s heroes for their first performances in kindergarten and school.

You can also meet the heroes of Pushkin’s works at the new children’s amusement park in Sochi built for the Winter Olympics — for instance the talking head from the poem “Ruslan and Lyudmila.”

On June 12 the Theatre of Nations in Moscow will stage the premiere of the play “Tales of Pushkin” in a modern interpretation by Robert Wilson. Many people will be in for a surprise. For instance, this is how Tkachikha [the weaver from “Tsar Saltan”] played by Darya Moroz, the wife of Tsar Saltan played by Anna Galinova, and the Golden Fish from “The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish” played by Elena Nikolaeva will look.

For those who can’t go to the new show, here’s a DIY alternative.

Pushkin’s fairy tales find reflection not only in high art, but also the popular street art of graffiti (these bogatyrs [warrior heroes] are on Zhukovsky Street in St Petersburg).

Meanwhile, the Swan Princess adorns Moscow’s Pokrovsky Gate Square.

Or how about this installation depicting the old woman from “The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish”?

Fancy reading Pushkin’s fairy tales in a hammock at the dacha, armed with a cup of tea made with homegrown mint and some “Pushkin’s Tales” candy bars?