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Pyotr Yrshov

Russian author

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children’s literature

  • Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass
    In children’s literature: Russia/Soviet Union

    …to children; the classic by Pyotr Yrshov, Konyok gorbunok (1834; English adaption by Ireene Wicker, The Little Hunchback Horse, 1942); and other stories and poems enjoyed by young Russians but not originally designed for them. To this folk material should be added the McGuffeyish moral tales that Tolstoy wrote for…

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