About the eternal fairy tales of Evgeny Schwartz. Since childhood, he was afraid of fairy tales with an unhappy ending. And it was the fairy tale that became the genre that made him great. Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, Evgeny Schwartz - the names you get to know in childhood and remember them all your life. January 15 marks 63 years since the death of Schwartz, the man who did not love death so much that he left us all hope that even the known ending could be changed for the better. "My dear, how we miss you! Your kindness and patience! Your courage and irony! Your mercy! Your confidence that "in every person, there is "something alive," and that you just need to "touch that part."" Your modesty - after all, you would laugh quietly and for a long time if someone had the idea that you are a great writer. But every now and then, you hear that your "Dragon" is genius"- one of his friends