Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is a recognized master of modern prose, her pen can do everything - a cutting-edge story, a subtle psychological short story and... fairy tales, a favorite genre, according to the writer herself. A real fairy tale can be funny or a little sad, but it certainly has a good ending. So that everyone who reads it feels happier and kinder. Petrushevskaya’s “Real Fairy Tales” is about happiness, which we all lack so much. And this means that everyone can read them: both the smallest and the wisest in life. In addition, all the heroes of these fairy tales - princesses and wizards, pensioners and television workers, as well as Barbie dolls - are our neighbors and contemporaries.