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Dorogie babushki i dedushki, esli u Vas zakonchilis´ skazki, chtoby rasskazat´ ikh vnuchatam pered snom, otkroyte etu knizhku, zdes´ vy obyazatel´no naydete chto-to podkhodyashchee dlya etoy tseli. I pust´ son vashikh slavnykh kroshek budet krepkim i spokoynym. V etikh skazkakh est´ dobro, zlo i volshebstvo, kogda po manoveniyu ruki ispolnyayutsya zhelaniya. I esli dobro pobezhdaet vse zhe zlo, to volshebstvo ne vsegda prinosit schast´e ne tol´ko lyudyam, no i brat´yam nashim men´shim. Skazki o sem´e, o spravedlivosti, kotoroy nam tak ne khvataet, o pechal´noy sud´be detey, kotorye ostalis´ bez roditeley, o nas s vami. Nadeyus´, chto prochitav ikh, vy ne potratite vremya zrya.

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Ya, Maksimov Mikhail Serafimovich, 1947 goda rozhdeniya, rodilsya v sele Bersenevka, Mordovskoy ASSR. Obrazovanie vysshee. Zhenat,deti uzhe vzroslye, imeyut sem´i i zhivut samostoyatel´noy zhizn´yu. V nastoyashchee vremya prozhivayu vmeste s zhenoy v g. Saransk. Geroi moikh skazok, kak pravilo, prostye lyudi so svoimi problemami i nadezhdami na luchshuyu dolyu.

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