On June 1, 2018, on Children's Day, the Moldovan Post issued a series of two stamps: "Children's Drawings Fairytale Heroes"
The stamps reproduce the drawings of the winners of the children's drawing competition, which was organized by the Moldovan Post together with the Center for Aesthetic Education "Lăstărel" and the Children's Creative Center "Luceafărul"
The winners of the competition were Anastasia Voitenk, 12, with an illustration for the Moldovan fairy tale "Fat-Frumos and Ileana Cosynzeana" and Corina Jdanov, 11, with a drawing based on the fairy tale "How the Fox Fooled the Bear".
Fat-Frumos is a fairytale hero, a character in Romanian and Moldovan folklore. Fat-Frumos from fairy tales and legends became a literary character, he is often found in stories and poems of famous writers.
Fat-Frumos is a brave, courageous, loyal and fair young man who overcomes all the trials and obstacles that stand in his way with honor. He travels the world, fights monsters and saves the beautiful as the sun princess Ilyana Kosynzyana. Fat-Frumos has a faithful companion - the magic horse Gaitan. The talking horse acts as a faithful assistant to the wise advisor of the main character, in Russian fairy tales, probably the closest image is the little humpbacked horse, who always helped Ivan get out of the most difficult and dangerous situations.
Fat-Frumos is not the first time appearing on postage stamps. The tales of his adventures were the subject of Moldovan stamps of 2000, as well as Romanian stamps of 1965, 1982, 1987 and 1995.
"How the Fox Fooled the Bear" is a Moldovan folk tale about a cunning fox and a simple-minded bear. The plot is very similar to the plot of the Russian folk tale about the fox and the wolf. Only in our tale the cunning fox made the wolf catch fish with his tail, while in the Moldovan tale, thanks to the fox, the bear-fisherman was left without a tail. And the fox in both tales feasted on the fish that she stole from the peasants' sleigh and was gone.
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