“Fairy Tales” best reveals to the reader the rich spiritual world and multifaceted creative individuality of the Russian artist-thinker, who was at the forefront of the socio-literary movement of his time. The rich ideological content of Shchedrin’s fairy tales is expressed in a publicly accessible and vibrant artistic form that has adopted the best folk poetic traditions. “Bear in the Voivodeship”, “Dried Roach”, “Fool”, “Neighbors” and others