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And all-all-all: how Winnie the Pooh became a burden on its creators

On October 14, 1926, English playwright Alan Alexander Milne published a book about Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin, and other inhabitants of the Hundred-Acre Forest. The story, whose characters the author drew from his son and his toys, instantly became a bestseller, but led to a family drama. How the fairy tale of Winnie the Pooh ruined the glory of a serious writer and destroyed the life of a real boy - in the material of "Vedomosti".

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And all-all-all: how Winnie the Pooh became a burden on its creators

On October 14, 1926, English playwright Alan Alexander Milne published a book about Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin, and other inhabitants of the Hundred-Acre Forest. The story, whose characters the author drew from his son and his toys, instantly became a bestseller, but led to a family drama. How the fairy tale of Winnie the Pooh ruined the glory of a serious writer and destroyed the life of a real boy - in the material of "Vedomosti".

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