Content:

- Filipok (fairy tale)
- Shark
- jump
- Bone (fairy tale)
- Lion and dog
- The bishop and the robber
- Old grandfather and granddaughter
- bird
- As a man shared geese (epic)
- Righteous judge (story)
- Equal inheritance
- Two comrades
- King and elephants
- Hedgehog and the hare (fable)
- Lion and mouse (fable)
- Three thieves
- Wolf and old woman
- Kitten
- Fire dogs
- Two merchants
- thieves son

Leo Tolstoy is one of the most widely known Russian writers and thinkers, revered as one of the greatest writers in the world. Member of the defense of Sevastopol. Enlightener, publicist, religious thinker, whose authoritative opinion caused the emergence of a new religious and moral trend - Tolstoyism. Corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (1873), honorary academician in the category of fine literature

Back in 1859, L.N. Tolstoy set about creating a public school in Yasnaya Polyana. For classes, the children needed a textbook - and that was the ABC, which Lev Nikolaevich wrote himself.

Aesop composed his fables in prose. Tolstoy strove to be as close to ideal as possible. He considered it necessary to introduce students to the real Aesop, to ancient fables, so that students could feel the enduring power of words and thoughts.

Tale - a genre of literary creativity:

A literary fairy tale is an epic genre: a fiction-oriented work, closely related to a folk tale, but, in contrast, belonging to a specific author, which did not exist before being published orally and had no options. A literary fairy tale either imitates folklore (a literary fairy tale written in the folk poetical style) or creates a didactic work (see didactic literature) based on non-folklore subjects. A folk tale historically precedes a literary one.