Famous Writer of Fairy Tales Passes Away in Moscow

Sergey Kozlov, the author of fairy tales and poems loved by both kids and grown-ups, has died today, aged 70, in Moscow. The writer died of pneumonia, his close friend - children’s poet Yuri Kushak - reported. Sergey Grigor’evich Kozlov was born on 22 August 1939 in Moscow. He started writing poetry as a schoolboy, and later graduated Literature Institute as a poet. Before becoming a professional writer, he worked for several years as a turner, a singing teacher, a guide in Pushkin’s Museum Mikhailovsko, a printer, and even a stoker. The poet started writing fairy tales in the 1960s, when he came up with adventures of the Hedgehog and the Bear, who were later featured in the prize-winning animation Hedgehog in the Fog by Yuriy Norshteyn.