About the book: 1966 / One can sincerely feel sorry for someone who, as a child, was not lucky enough to read A.N. Tolstoy’s fairy tale “The Golden Key” . Childhood without the “Golden Key”, without the mischievous Pinocchio, without the girl with blue hair, without the faithful Artemon seems to be not entirely complete. “We are drawn to return to this book, just as we are drawn to that one and only best courtyard in the world where we spent our childhood.” After the publication of the book about the adventures of Pinocchio, his second stormy theatrical life began. Based on the fairy tale, performances were staged, films were made, plays were staged, dramatizations were made. The charm of A.N. Tolstoy’s fairy tale was so great that the talented writer Elena Yakovlevna Danko (1898-1942) decided to write a sequel to “The Golden Key”, the fairy tale “The Defeated Karabas”. She first saw the light in 1941.