Petersburg), published in Finskii vestnik in 1846; and "Ural'skii Kazak" (A Cossack from the Urals), published in Aleksandr Pavlovich Bashutsky's almanac
Nashi, spisannye s natury (Ours, Copied from Life) in 1843. Yet Dal's artistic contribution, while not as enduring in importance as his activity as a collector, was important at the time and was recognized by his far-greater contemporary, Aleksandr Pushkin. Only two years older than Dal', Pushkin was favorably disposed toward Dal's first collection of artistically transformed fairy tales and soon sent him one of his own, "Skazka o rybake i rybke" (Fairy Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish, 1833), with an autographed dedication on a copy of the manuscript that read "Here is One From Thy Own. To the Fairy Tale Writer, the Cossack from Lugansk, from the Fairy Tale Writer Aleksandr Pushkin."
When the two writers met in Orenburg in 1833, Pushkin encouraged Dal' to write more prose: "If I were in your place I would write a novel immediately, right now." Dal' continued writing prose but never wrote a novel.
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