About the book: 1989 / Leonid Vladimirsky - Moscow graphic artist, illustrates books for children. Thirty years ago, he created his own image of Pinocchio for A. Tolstoy’s fairy tale “The Golden Key”. Now this cheerful wooden man in a striped cap is known to all the children. Several generations of young readers are familiar with his drawings for a series of fairy tales by the writer A. Volkov about the Emerald City and the Magic Land. "The Journey of the Blue Arrow" by J. Rodari, "Three Fat Men" by Jur. Olesha, “The Adventures of Parsley” by M. Fadeeva and A. Smirnov, “Russian Folk Tales”... and, finally, “Ruslan and Lyudmila” by A. Pushkin. These and many other books are illustrated by Honored Artist of the RSFSR, artist-storyteller Leonid Vladimirsky.