The narration in the stories "Tsar-pisces" About the narration "Tsar-Pisces", which turned into symphonic paintings and even into the ballet of the same name, there is a curious story by the author himself, published in 1994 on the pages of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda". "Once I was fishing on the Yenisei," the writer shared, "a man eaten by mosquitoes sticks to the shore nearby, drinking, apparently, for more than one day, and wonders if I am really the same writer who composed the King Fish."raquo;? At one time, this book passed along the Yenisei: who read, who heard, but everyone guessed themselves and their friends in the book: This is Mitka, this is Vaska... This guy also had my book, which was all battered, it is clear that she had been in the water more than once... Did you really write it?Well, really. So what? – That's the book, pamash, what... I, the poacher, have it in my boat, and the fish watchdog has it. The writer Mikhail Tarkovsky, who is called Astafiev's successor, believes that in this book the citizen's dream of Siberia and its mighty and long-suffering nature has reached its highest takeoff. This is how Astafiev's love for his native Siberia was reflected by the universal folk love for his "Tsar Fish".
