The Tale of the Golden Cockerel

The Tale of the Golden Cockerel

"The Tale of the Golden Cockerel" ( _ru. Сказка о золотом петушке; Skazka o zolotom petushke) is the last fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin wrote the tale in 1834 and it was first published in literary magazine "Biblioteka dlya chteniya" in 1835. The tale is based on the short story "Legend of the Arabian Astrologer" from the Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving.

Adaptations

*1907 - "The Golden Cockerel", opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
*1967 - "Golden Cockerel", USSR, animated film by Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya. [http://www.animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=2230]

References

* Alexander Pushkin: A Critical Study by A.D.P. Briggs, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1982.

External links

*ru icon " [http://www.rvb.ru/pushkin/01text/03fables/01fables/0801.htm Сказка о золотом петушке] " avaialble at "Russian Virtual Library"
*" [http://www.artrusse.ca/Pushkin/tale_cockerel.htm The Tale of the Golden Cockerel] ", translated by Walter W. Arndt

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