Fairy tale experiments of V.I. Dahl (Lugansk Cossack) and his contemporaries
In the article the analisis of V.I. Dahl’s fairy tales of 1830-s written in prose compared to similar ones of fairy tales writers of the epoque is exerciced. The clotheness of the satirical images created by such authors as A.S. Pushkin, P.P. Ershov and V.I. Dahl was the natural sequence of the outlook similarity of the fairy tale writers on the idea substance of the folk tales. The close approaches to prose writing of A.F. Veltman and V.I. Dahl’s fairy tales are in the correlation of fantasy and reality (close to myth, tale, legend, on one hand, and social psychological story, from the other hand). With O.M. Somov Dahl is connected by the character of working on the Ukrainian tale folklore, usage of the fairy tale as a style. Lugansk Cossack and N.A. Polovoy address to the same folk and literature plot – about a judge called Shemiaka, although they write in the different way.