Buratino

According to Tolstoy, he had read Pinocchio as a child, but, having lost the book, he started re-imagining it many years later in an attempt to come up with a series of bedside stories for his own children.

Miron Petrovsky, in his article on the subject, states that the book was based upon a 1924 translation made by Nina Petrovskaya (1879–1928) and edited by Tolstoy, who had already removed many of the elements absent in The Golden Key.

There he befriends other puppets, but the evil puppet-master Karabas Barabas (the story's Mangiafuoco character), wants to destroy him because Buratino disrupted the show.

After that, the events proceed similarly (although not identically) to Collodi's Pinocchio until the scene where the coins are stolen, after which the plots split apart completely.

[7] A location in the story, Поле чудес (в Стране Дураков), literally 'The Field of Wonders (in the Land of Fools)' is the title of the Russian adaptation of the Wheel of Fortune game show.