About the book: 1975 / The Nivkhs, Nanai, Ulchi, Udege and other peoples of the Far East have long lived along the banks of the wide and mighty Amur. And for centuries their elders have been telling fairy tales to children growing up in the camps. About how the boy Indiga overcame seven fears and not only saved his brother, but also gained the heart of a brave man. As a hero, Azmun swam on the back of a killer whale to the house of the Sea Master and begged the old man to send fish to the Nivkhs. How the hunter Choril turned into a bear, and his bride went to the Mountain Master himself to seek the truth... The Far Eastern writer Dmitry Nagishkin carefully studied the oral works of small peoples and, using their stories and language, created an original work of art - the book “Amur Tales”, a real ethnographic encyclopedia of the region. Khabarovsk artist Gennady Pavlishin also closely studied the unique artistic heritage of the indigenous peoples of the Far East. He watched how the Nivkh bone cutters worked, how beads were woven into the embroidered pattern of Ulchi clothing, how the lace of the cut-out ornament appeared on the Nanai birch bark tueska. The artist creatively reworked the motifs of folk art and not only amazingly accurately conveyed the features of everyday life and culture, but also created a fantastically colorful world of illustrations that forms an inextricable whole with the text of fairy tales. In 1975, at the International Biennale of Illustration in Bratislava, for “Amur Tales” Gennady Pavlishin received one of the highest awards - “Golden Apple”».