Russian folk tales. Fairy tale "Zaikin's hut": a brief description and basic information

/ / Tales from Uncle Remus

Date of creation: started publishing in 1879.

Genre: fairy tale cycle.

Topic: the fight between good and evil.

Idea: cunning and resourcefulness will help to prevail over force.

Issues. Child education.

Main heroes: Remus, Joel, Rabbit, Fox.

Plot. Every evening, the boy Joel runs as fast as he can to the old Negro Remus to listen to a fascinating story about the adventures of Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox. Uncle Remus willingly grants the boy's wish. His stories are not just entertainment. Each contains a deep meaning. Using the example of animals, the old man explains to the boy how to behave, what to fear in life.

When Joel commits a bad deed, Uncle Remus at first does not want to talk to the boy, but then picks up a suitable fairy tale in his memory. A fascinating story works best for Joel. He remembers forever that it is not good to deceive, to shift the blame on another. The old man notices that the boy really tries to do only good deeds.

Sometimes fairy tales come with a sequel, and Joel looks forward to the next evening with great impatience.

Common to the entire cycle of fairy tales is the eternal confrontation between the Rabbit and the Fox. The Fox constantly tries to eat the Rabbit, but cannot catch it. The fox uses all his cunning, but as a result he turns out to be a fool.

One of the most famous and revealing stories is "The Pitch Scarecrow". The fox fashioned a figurine out of resin and put it on the road. The rabbit began to talk to her and, having received no answer, hit the scarecrow and clung to it. Without guessing anything, the Rabbit began to fight back and stuck to the figure with his hands and feet. The Fox triumphed, and the Rabbit began to beg him not to throw himself into the thorn bush. Fox got scammed. Having thrown the Rabbit, he soon heard his cheerful voice.

Brer Rabbit is not always the innocent victim. It happens that he himself exposes his opponent to ridicule. So, for example, it happened in a fairy tale where the Rabbit was able to saddle the Fox and brag about it in front of Mother Meadows and her daughters.

Sometimes other predatory animals come to the aid of the Fox, but they cannot deceive the Rabbit either. While he had a straw house, the Wolf often visited, destroyed it and carried off one rabbit. The Rabbit built a stone house and waited for the right moment to take revenge on the Wolf. Once he was running away from the hunters and in desperation asked for help from the Rabbit. Brer Rabbit locked it in a box and began pouring boiling water into the holes. The wolf managed to break free and run away, but after that he bypassed the Rabbit.

After the incident with the Wolf, Brer Fox was afraid to touch the Rabbit. They even started to be friends, like in the good old days. But the Rabbit did not forget past grievances and often deceived the Fox, "adding" his mind. With the help of cunning, he stole the prey from the Fox; lured him into a well, where the Fox was almost caught by the owner.

Brer Rabbit is rightfully considered the most cunning in the forest. Sometimes he does not very good things. Having deceived Mother Cow, Rabbit milked all her milk. Uncle Remus specifically tells the boy about how the Rabbit stole oil from other animals and blamed everything on Brother Opossum. Joel is dissatisfied with the behavior of his favorite hero, he immediately declares that this is unfair.

Another defenseless animal in Uncle Remus' tales is Brer Turtle. He befriends the Rabbit and is also capable of tricking the Fox. The Rabbit also cheats on the Turtle during a race. Joel pleases the old man by immediately recognizing the deception.

In addition to the adventures of the main characters, Uncle Remus tells Joel stories about other animals. In a fabulously entertaining way, he explains to the boy why the opossum pretends to be dead at the sight of danger, and also why he has a bare tail. The old man surprises the boy by telling him that the Rabbit used to have a big fluffy tail, but he lost it because of the Fox.

In the last tale of the cycle "How Brother Turtle Surprised Everyone", the old man promises the boy that he knows many more fascinating stories that will last for a long time.

Review of the product. D. Harris is credited with preserving the original folklore of American Negroes. His fairy tales are not only kind and fascinating stories. They increased interest in the culture of the people who were in a slave state. "Tales of Uncle Remus" confirmed that all people, regardless of race, have the same universal values.

Lesson Objectives:

To acquaint with the features of the fairy tales of D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak.

Development of skills to analyze works, skills of expressive, conscious reading.

Cultivate positive life positions, faith in the best, goodness.

Equipment: portrait of D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak, book exhibition, analysis scheme literary fairy tale.

Literature: Tales of D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak.

Exercise 1.

Traveling to the world of fairy tales, we got acquainted with Russian folk and literary tales.

What are their similarities and how do they differ?

Task 2.

- What literary fairy tales have we met and who is their author?

– Tell us about the work of the fairy tale writer P.P. Ershov.

Formulation of the problem.

– Many writers and poets have worked in the literary fairy tale genre. One of these masters of the word is D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak. He began to work in this genre not by chance. Life forced him. In 1892, the writer's wife dies. And he remains with a sick daughter in his arms. A difficult fate awaited the girl: her mother died, her father was not young, and a serious illness prevented her from counting on a prosperous destiny. The father had to prepare his daughter for life, for its harsh sides, and most importantly, to teach the child to love life.

What fairy tales did the writer create? Who are they about? What is the theme of fairy tales?

Today in the lesson we have to find out, and draw a conclusion, what is the peculiarity of the fairy tales of D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak.

Of course, in order to have a complete picture of his tales, you need to read some of the wonderful tales of D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak.

Therefore, in order for the work to be fruitful, we organize activities in groups. Each group will be given a story and an analysis scheme.

Assignment (group work)

Analyze “The Tale of the Kozyavochka” - 1 group

Analysis of “The Tale of Sparrow Vorobeich” - group 2

Analysis of “Tales about Komar Komarovich” - group 3

Analysis of "The Tale of the Brave Hare" - group 4

Analysis of the fairy tale “The Gray Neck” - group 5

Performance of the creative team

Exercise 1

- What is the plot of the story?

The basis of the plot of the tale is the birth of Kozyavochka and her collision with obstacles and dangers (bumblebee, worm, frogs). The ending of the tale is the death of Kozyavochka, falling asleep until next spring.

Task 2

• What is the composition of the story?

The story is in three parts:

1 - the birth of Kozyavochka and her view of the world at that moment.

2 - a change in Kozyavochka's worldview due to the events that happened to her.

3 - the end of the life of the Kozyavochka. An analysis of the events that happened to her in life.

Task 3

• Are there magical phenomena, objects?

The magic is that all animals talk.

Task 4

• Describe the characters in the story.

Goat (small insect). At first she is frivolous, but in the course of the plot of the tale she encounters some obstacles that change her character - they force her to adapt to life, get used to difficulties, and successfully overcome them.

The flower is kind, helps the Kozyavochka at birth, fed her.

Bumblebee - angry, formidable, rude, the first negative character that Kozyavochka encountered.

The worm is serious, strict, believing that everything belongs to him: grass and flowers.

Other goats are frivolous, like Goat.

Sparrows, fish, frogs are shown in the tale as enemies that impede the life of Goats.

Task 5

• What is the theme of the tale?

It is impossible to remake the world, it is impossible to change oneself and one's attitude towards the environment for one's own good. No need to be angry with the world, you should realistically assess your capabilities and hope for the best, sacredly believe in justice, goodness.

Task 6

• Tell us about the artistic features of the tale.

- the presence of verbs at the beginning of the sentence gives the narrative movement, speed of action: “How Kozyavochka was born ... Kozyavochka spread her wings, rubbed thin legs one on the other, looked around. Kozyavochka played, had fun and sat down to rest not a swamp sedge.

- the presence of repetitions in a fairy tale:

The sky is blue-blue; good good! Kind is kind.

- the presence of colloquial vocabulary: - Oh, you trashy Kozyavka, get out!

- the use of diminutive suffixes: goat, worm, flower, sun, grass.

Task 7

• What children will learn about after reading a fairy tale, reveal the cognitive moment.

From the fairy tale, children learn about the life of insects, what they eat, that birds (sparrow), amphibians and fish eat insects.

Task 8

• What does this story teach children?

The child is invited to look at the world through the eyes of Kozyavochka in order to gain a true human worldview. Not everything in the world is as simple as it seems, sometimes the environment may seem complicated and cruel, but do not be upset - you just need to find your own approach to each situation, an approach that corresponds to the norms of behavior, the laws of goodness, justice.

(Other groups report similarly)

Self-esteem

4. Reflective-evaluative stage - 5 minutes

So, what are the features of the fairy tales of D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak?

1. The heroes of fairy tales - a fly, a goat, a mosquito, a hare - are emphasized small, weak, invisible, but all the action is welded to their victory.

2. The main themes of fairy tales:

The weak prevail over the strong.
– The invisible find their place in life.
- It is impossible to remake the world to please yourself, but you can change yourself and your attitude to the environment for your own good.
Spiritual strength is more important than physical strength.

3. Action, plots are based on funny, funny incidents.

4. The description of nature occupies an insignificant place. The sketches are short, but very expressive.

5. Fairy tales are educational. Humanizing the characters helps the child to more vividly and vividly present to the child the characteristic properties of animals, their life.

6. Artistic features: the presence of verbs at the beginning of a sentence gives the narrative a special rhythm, dynamics, the presence of repetitions, colloquial vocabulary.

Conclusion: Tales of D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak are a peculiar way of talking between an adult and a child about vital things. The child is invited to look at the world through the eyes of a goat, a fly, a dog, a duck, in order to gain a truly human worldview.

Self-esteem.

Prepare entertaining material based on the fairy tales of D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak.

The works of G. H. Andersen have long been included in school curriculum and are usually read by children with great pleasure. In this article, we will review the analysis and summary fairy tales "Swineherd" for reader's diary.

About the work

The literary tale "The Swineherd" was first published in 1841 in a collection of Andersen's works. The work quickly gained popularity and was even adapted for theatrical productions.

It is believed that the work was completely composed by Andersen himself, however, there are many folklore motifs in it. So, very popular among folk tales was the motive of punishment by a proud prince. He is present in one of the scenes in which the king disguises himself, wooing an arrogant princess. However, unlike folklore plots, which traditionally end well, Andersen's fairy tale is less sentimental.

Summary: "Swineherd" (for the reader's diary)

The main one is a poor prince who rules a small kingdom. He decides to marry the emperor's daughter. The prince sends a nightingale and a wonderful rose with a wonderful aroma as a gift to his beloved. However, she did not accept gifts, because they turned out to be alive, and not made by human hands.

Andersen's fairy tale has a pronounced instructive orientation, and the summary ("Swineherd") can serve as confirmation of this. For a reader's diary, you can shorten the text presented here a little more and not go into detailed descriptions gifts.

The prince decides to go into the service of the emperor as a swineherd. He invents a pot that plays a melody and shows who is cooking what, and a ratchet that can play all the polkas and dances in the world. These things attract the attention of the princess and the prince sells them to her for a kiss.

Andersen shows how cruelly pride and arrogance can be punished. Confirmation of this can be found by reading the summary ("Swineherd") for the reader's diary.

So, the princess kisses the prince and at that moment the emperor finds them. He drives them both out of their lands in anger. The princess began to sob in grief. The prince, meanwhile, changed his clothes and sobbed the girl that he despised her, because she did not agree to become the wife of an honest man, but for simple trinkets she agreed to kiss the swineherd.

Theme and idea of ​​a fairy tale

Now we can talk about the main theme and idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe tale, and the summary above (“Swineherd”) will help us with this. For the reader's diary, it is also recommended to write a few words about this.

So, the main theme of the work is hopeless love. The main problem is social injustice, love of convenience, the replacement of true feelings with artificial ones.

The idea of ​​the fairy tale is that one cannot judge people by their wealth and social status.

The cowardly Hare lived in the forest, as befits a hare, he was afraid of everything. And so, having lived in constant fear for many days and months, the Hare grew up and grew bolder. He was tired of being afraid. Then the Hare loudly, to the whole forest, declared that: “I am not afraid of anyone! I’m not afraid at all, and that’s it!”

The hares heard such a statement, they were surprised, but they ran to look at such a brave man. The Hare sees that everyone paid attention to him, he began to be more and more brave. His relatives look at the brave man, they are surprised. They do not believe that there would be such a hare who was not afraid of anyone. And Bunny, you know, to brag, but it began to turn out so funny for him that everyone around him, both old and young, began to laugh. No one believed the Hare, but it was funny to everyone, from how he was brave. In the end, the Hare said that if he met the Wolf, he would eat him himself.

At this time, a hungry Wolf ran past the clearing. he heard that some hare promised to eat him, he got angry. He decided to teach the braggart a lesson, at the same time eating hare. He hid in the bushes and began to look at which of the hares gathered in the clearing was showing off. And, Hare, he has already climbed onto a stump as if on a podium and is broadcasting from it. And then he saw that the Wolf hid behind all the hares in the bushes. From fright, the Hare was speechless, from fear, he jumped into the air like a ball and accidentally landed right on the wolf's head. Then he rushed to run at such a speed that no one could catch up with him. The rest of the hares also fled. And it seemed to the Wolf that it was not the Hare who fell on him, but someone shot at him. The wolf was frightened and also rushed to the duck.

Time passed, realizing that the danger had passed, the hares began to return to the clearing. They began to look for a brave man, and when they found him, they began to praise him. Now the hares believed that the Hare was actually brave. Even the Hare himself began to believe in it.

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Cartoons The Tale of the Brave Hare

In 1955, the fairy tale of D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak was filmed by the Soyuzmultfilm studio. The cartoon entered the series of cartoons united by a common beginning.

The stepmother has a daughter and stepdaughter. The old woman decides to drive her stepdaughter out of the yard and orders her husband to take the girl "to an open field in the crackling frost." He obeys.

In an open field, Frost Red Nose greets the girl. She responds kindly. Frost feels sorry for his stepdaughter, and he does not freeze her, but gives her a dress, a fur coat, a chest of dowry.

The stepmother is already celebrating a wake for her stepdaughter and tells the old man to go to the field, bring the girl's body to bury. The old man returns and brings his daughter - alive, well-dressed, with a dowry! The stepmother orders that her own daughter be taken to the same place. Frost Red Nose comes to look at the guest. Without waiting for "good speeches" from the girl, he kills her. The old woman expects her daughter to return with wealth, but instead the old man brings only a cold body.

Swan geese

Parents leave for work, ordering their daughter not to leave the yard and take care of her younger brother. But the girl puts her brother under the window, and she runs out into the street. The swan geese, meanwhile, carry away their brother on their wings. The sister runs to catch up with the swan geese. On the way, she meets a stove, an apple tree, a milky river - jelly banks. Their girl asks about her brother, but the stove asks her to taste a pie, an apple tree - an apple, a river - jelly with milk. The picky girl disagrees. She meets a hedgehog who shows her the way. He comes to the hut on chicken legs, looks in there - and there is Baba Yaga and his brother. The girl carries her brother away, and the geese-swans fly after her in pursuit.

The girl asks the river to hide her and agrees to eat jelly. Then the apple tree hides her, and the girl has to eat a forest apple, then she hides in the stove and eats a rye pie. The geese do not see her and fly away with nothing.

The girl and her brother run home, and just then the father and mother come.

Ivan Bykovich

The king and queen have no children. They dream that the queen will become pregnant if she eats a golden ruff. The ruff is caught, fried, the cook licks the dishes for the queen, the cow drinks the slop. Ivan Tsarevich is born to the queen, Ivan, the cook's son, is born to the cook, and Ivan Bykovich is born to the cow. All three fellows on one person.

The Ivans try their hand at which one of them should be the big brother. Ivan Bykovich turns out to be the strongest of all ... The good fellows find a large stone in the garden, a cellar under it, and there are three heroic horses. The king allows the Ivans to go to foreign lands.

Good fellows come to the hut of Baba Yaga. She says that on the Smorodina River, on the Kalinov Bridge, there live miracles, who have ruined all the neighboring kingdoms.

Well done come to the Smorodina River, stop in an empty hut and decide to go on patrol in turn. Ivan Tsarevich falls asleep on patrol. Ivan Bykovich, not relying on him, comes to the Kalinov Bridge, fights with the six-headed miracle-yud, kills him and puts six heads on the bridge. Then Ivan, the cook's son, goes on patrol, also falls asleep, and Ivan Bykovich defeats the nine-headed miracle Yudo. Then Ivan Bykovich leads the brothers under the bridge, shames them and shows them the heads of the monsters. The next night, Ivan Bykovich prepares to fight with the twelve-headed miracle man. He asks the brothers to stay awake and watch: blood will flow from the towel into the bowl. Overflows - you need to rush to the rescue.

Ivan Bykovich fights with a miracle, the brothers fall asleep. It is hard for Ivan Bykovich. He throws his mittens into the hut - breaks through the roof, breaks the glass, and the brothers are all sleeping. Finally, he throws his hat, which destroys the hut. The brothers wake up, and the bowl is already overflowing with blood. They unleash the heroic horse, they themselves run to help. But while they keep up, Ivan Bykovich is already coping with the miracle-yud.

After that, the miraculous wives and mother-in-law plot to take revenge on Ivan Bykovich. Wives want to turn into a deadly apple tree, a well, a golden bed and find themselves in the way of good fellows. But Ivan Bykovich finds out about their plans and cuts down an apple tree, a well, a crib. Then the miracle-Yudov mother-in-law, an old witch, dresses up as a beggar and asks for alms from the fellows. Ivan Bykovich is about to give her a hand, and she takes the hero by the hand, and both find themselves in the dungeon with her old husband.

Eyelashes are lifted to the witch's husband with an iron pitchfork. The old man orders Ivan Bykovich to bring the queen - golden curls. The witch drowns with grief. The old man teaches the bogatyr to open the magic oak tree and take out the ship from there. And Ivan Bykovich brings a lot of ships and boats out of the oak. Several old men ask Ivan Bykovich to be fellow travelers. One is Obedailo, the other is Opivailo, the third knows how to take a steam bath in the bath, the fourth is an astrologer, the fifth swims like a ruff. All together go to the queen - golden curls. There, in her unprecedented kingdom, the old men help to eat and drink all the treats, to cool the red-hot bath.

The queen leaves with Ivan Bykovich, but on the way she turns into a star and flies to the sky. The astrologer returns her to her place. Then the queen turns into a pike, but the old man, who knows how to swim with a ruff, pricks her in the side, and she returns to the ship. The old people say goodbye to Ivan Bykovich, and he, along with the queen, goes to the miracle Yudov's father. Ivan Bykovich offers a test: the one who walks along the perch through a deep hole marries the queen. Ivan Bykovich passes, and the miracle-yudov father flies into the pit.

Ivan Bykovich returns home to his brothers, marries the queen - golden curls and sets a wedding feast.

Seven Simeons

The old man has seven sons born on the same day, they are all called Simeons. When the Simeons are left orphans, they do all the work in the field. The king, passing by, sees small children working in the field, calls them to him and questions. One of them says that he wants to be a blacksmith and forge a huge pillar, the other is to look from this pillar, the third is to be a ship's carpenter, the fourth is a helmsman, the fifth is to hide the ship to the bottom of the sea, the sixth is to get it out of there, and the seventh is to be a thief. The king does not like the desire of the latter. Simeonov is sent to science. After a while, the king decides to look at their skills.

The blacksmith forged a huge pillar, the brother climbed on it and saw Elena the Beautiful in a distant land. Other brothers demonstrated their shipbuilding skills. And the seventh - Simeon the thief - the king wants to hang, but he undertakes to steal Elena the Beautiful for him. All seven brothers go for the princess. The thief dresses up as a merchant, gives the princess a cat, which is not found in that land, shows her expensive fabrics and attire, and promises to show an unusual stone if Elena comes to the ship.

As soon as Elena entered the ship, the fifth brother hid the ship at the bottom of the sea ... And the sixth, when the danger of the chase had passed, brought him outside and led him to his native shore. The tsar generously rewarded Simeonov, married Elena the Beautiful and set a feast.

Marya Morevna

Ivan Tsarevich has three sisters: Marya Tsarevna, Olga Tsarevna and Anna Tsarevna. When their parents die, the brother marries the sisters: Marya for a falcon, Olga for an eagle, and Anna for a raven.

Ivan Tsarevich goes to visit his sisters and meets a huge army in the field, defeated by someone. One of the survivors explains: this army was defeated by Marya Morevna, the beautiful queen. Ivan Tsarevich travels on, meets Marya Morevna, and stays in her tents. Then he marries the princess, and they go to her state.

Marya Morevna, going to war, forbids her husband to look into one of the closets. But he, having disobeyed, looks - and there Koschey the Immortal is chained. Ivan Tsarevich gives Koshchei a drink. He, having gained strength, breaks the chains, flies away and carries Marya Morevna along the way. The husband goes to look for her.

On the way, Ivan Tsarevich meets the palaces of the falcon, eagle and raven. He visits his sons-in-law, leaves them a silver spoon, fork, and knife as a keepsake. Having reached Marya Morevna, Ivan Tsarevich twice tries to take his wife home, but both times Koschey catches up with them on a fast horse and takes Marya Morevna away. For the third time, he kills Ivan Tsarevich and cuts his body into pieces.

At the sons-in-law of Ivan Tsarevich, the donated silver turns black. A falcon, an eagle and a raven find a cut body, spray it with dead and living water. The prince is alive.

Koschey the Immortal tells Marya Morevna that he took his horse from Baba Yaga, beyond the fiery river. The princess steals from Koshchei and gives her husband a magic handkerchief, with which you can cross the fiery river.

Ivan Tsarevich goes to Baba Yaga. On the way, although he is hungry, out of pity he does not eat a chick, a lion cub, and even bee honey, so as not to offend the bees. The prince hires Baba Yaga to herd her mares. It is impossible to keep track of them, but the birds, lions and bees help the prince.

Ivan Tsarevich steals a mangy foal from Baba Yaga (in fact, this is a heroic horse). Baba Yaga gives chase, but drowns in a fiery river.

On his heroic horse, Ivan Tsarevich takes away Marya Morevna. Koschey catches up with them. The prince enters into battle with him and kills him.

Ivan Tsarevich and Marya Morevna visit a raven, an eagle and a falcon, and then go to their kingdom.

Emelya the Fool

The peasant had three sons; two are smart, and the third, Emelya, is a fool. The father dies, leaving "one hundred rubles" to each. The elder brothers go to trade, leaving Emelya at home with his daughters-in-law and promising to buy him red boots, a fur coat and a caftan.

In winter, in severe frost, the daughters-in-law send Emelya for water. With great reluctance, he goes to the hole, fills the bucket ... And catches a pike in the hole. Pike promises to make sure that any Emelino desire will come true if he lets her go. She reveals the magic words to the guy: "At the command of the pike, at my will." Emelya releases the pike. His first wish is fulfilled with the help of miraculous words: buckets of water go home by themselves.

A little while later, the daughters-in-law force Emelya to go into the yard to chop wood. Emelya orders the ax to chop wood, and the firewood to go to the hut and lie down in the oven. The bridesmaids are amazed.

They send Emelya to the forest for firewood. He does not harness the horses, the sleigh drives from the yard on its own. Passing through the city, Emelya crushes a lot of people. In the forest, an ax is chopping wood and a club for Emelya.

On the way back in the city of Emelya, they try to catch and crush his sides. And Emelya orders his club to beat all the offenders and safely returns home.

The king, having heard about all this, sends his officer to Emelya. He wants to take the fool to the king. Emelya does not agree, and the officer slaps him. Then Yemelin's club beats both the officer and his soldier. The officer reports all this to the king. The king sends to Emelya smart person. He first speaks to his daughters-in-law and learns that the fool loves affectionate treatment. Sulya Emele goodies and refreshments, he persuades him to come to the king. Then the fool tells his stove to go to the city itself.

In the royal palace, Emelya sees the princess and makes a wish: let her fall in love with him.

Emelya leaves the king, and the princess asks her father to marry her to Emelya. The king orders the officer to deliver Emelya to the palace. The officer gives Emelya a drink while drunk, and then ties it up, puts it in a wagon and takes it to the palace. The king orders to make a big barrel, put his daughter and a fool there, pitch the barrel and put it into the sea.

In a barrel, a fool wakes up. The king's daughter tells him what happened and asks him to rescue himself and her from the barrel. The fool utters magic words, and the sea throws the barrel ashore. She crumbles.

Emelya and the princess find themselves on a beautiful island. According to Emelin's desire, a huge palace and a crystal bridge appear to royal palace. Then Emelya himself becomes smart and handsome.

Emelya invites the king to visit him. He arrives, feasts with Emelya, but does not recognize him. When Emelya tells him everything that happened, the king rejoices and agrees to marry the princess to him.

The king returns home, and Emelya and the princess live in their palace.

The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf

Tsar sent Andronovich three sons: Dmitry, Vasily and Ivan. Every night, a firebird flies into the royal garden and pecks golden apples on the king's favorite apple tree. Tsar Vyslav promises to make the heir to the kingdom the one of his sons who catches the firebird. First, Dmitry Tsarevich goes to the garden to guard her, but falls asleep at the post. The same thing happens with Vasily Tsarevich. And Ivan Tsarevich lies in wait for the firebird, grabs it, but it breaks out, leaving only a feather in his hands.

The king orders his children to find and bring him the firebird. The older brothers travel separately from the younger. Ivan Tsarevich comes to a pillar on which it is written: the one who goes straight will be hungry and cold, to the right - he will be alive, but will lose his horse, to the left - he will lose his life, but the horse will be alive. The prince goes to the right. He meets a gray wolf who kills his horse, but agrees to serve Ivan Tsarevich and takes him to Tsar Dolmat, who has a cage with a firebird hanging in his garden. The wolf advises to take the bird, but not to touch the cage. But the prince takes the cage, a knock and thunder rises, the guards catch him and lead him to the king. Tsar Dolmat agrees to forgive the prince and give him a firebird if he brings him a golden-maned horse. Then the wolf takes Ivan Tsarevich to Tsar Afron - he has a golden-maned horse in his stable. The wolf convinces not to touch the bridle, but the prince does not obey him. Again, Ivan Tsarevich is caught, and the Tsar promises to give him the horse if the Tsarevich brings Elena the Beautiful in return. Then the wolf kidnaps Elena the Beautiful, rushes her and Ivan Tsarevich to Tsar Afron. But the prince is sorry to give the princess Afron. The wolf takes the form of Helen, and Tsar Afron gladly gives the horse to the prince for the imaginary princess.

And the wolf runs away from Tsar Afron and catches up with Ivan Tsarevich.

After that, he takes the form of a golden-maned horse, and the prince takes him to King Dolmat. He, in turn, gives the firebird to the prince. And the wolf again assumes its shape and resorts to Ivan Tsarevich. The wolf takes Ivan Tsarevich to the place where he tore his horse to pieces, and says goodbye to him. The prince and the queen go on. They stop to rest and fall asleep. Dmitry Tsarevich and Vasily Tsarevich find them sleeping, kill their brother, take away the horse and the firebird. The princess, under pain of death, is ordered to be silent about everything and they take her with them. Dmitry Tsarevich is going to marry her.

And the gray wolf finds the cut body of Ivan Tsarevich. He waits for the appearance of the ravens and grabs the crow. The raven father promises to bring dead and living water if the wolf does not touch his offspring. The raven fulfills his promise, the wolf sprinkles the body with dead water, and then with living water. The prince comes to life, and the wolf takes him to the kingdom of Tsar Vyslav. Ivan Tsarevich appears at the wedding of his brother with Elena the Beautiful. At the sight of him, Elena the Beautiful decides to tell the whole truth. And then the king puts his elder sons in prison, and Ivan Tsarevich marries Elena the Beautiful.

Sivka-burka

The old man, dying, asks his three sons to take turns spending one night at his grave. The older brother does not want to spend the night at the grave, but asks the younger one, Ivan the Fool, to spend the night instead of him. Ivan agrees. At midnight, the father comes out of the grave. He calls the heroic horse Sivka-Burka and tells him to serve his son. The middle brother does the same as the older brother. Again Ivan spends the night on the grave, and at midnight the same thing happens. On the third night, when the turn of Ivan himself comes, everything repeats.

The king throws a cry: whoever plucks the portrait of the princess, drawn on a fly (that is, on a towel), from a high house, the princess will marry him. The older and middle brothers are going to watch how the portrait will be torn down. The fool asks to go with them, the brothers give him a three-legged filly, and they themselves leave. Ivan calls the sivka-burka, climbs into one ear of the horse, crawls out into the other and becomes a fine fellow. He goes for a portrait.

The horse gallops high, but only three logs short of the portrait. The brothers see it. Returning home, they tell their wives about the daring young man, but they do not know that this is their brother. The next day, the same thing happens - Ivan again a little lacks. For the third time, he rips off the portrait.

The king calls people of all classes to a feast. Ivan the Fool also comes and sits at the stove. The princess treats the guests and looks: who will wipe his fly with a portrait? But she does not see Ivan The feast goes on the next day, but the princess again does not find her betrothed. For the third time, she discovers Ivan the Fool with a portrait behind the stove and happily leads her to her father. Ivan's brothers are amazed.

Playing a wedding. Ivan, having dressed and cleaned himself, becomes a fine fellow: "not Ivan the fool, but Ivan the king's son-in-law."

magic ring

An old hunter lives with his old woman and son Martynka. Dying, he leaves his wife and son two hundred rubles. Martyn takes a hundred rubles and goes to town to buy bread. But instead, he buys the dog Zhurka from the butchers, whom they want to kill. It takes a whole hundred. The old woman swears, but - there is nothing to do - she gives her son another hundred rubles. Now Martynka buys the cat Vaska from the evil boy for the same price.

Mother kicks Martyn out of the house, and he is hired as a laborer to the priest. Three years later, the pop offers him a choice of a bag of silver and a bag of sand. Martinka chooses sand, takes it and goes to look for another place. He comes to a forest clearing where a fire is burning, and a girl is on fire. Martin covers the fire with sand. The girl turns into a snake and leads Martyn to the underworld to her father to thank him. The king of the underground side gives Martynka a magic ring.

Taking the ring and some money, Martynka returns to her mother. He persuades his mother to marry the beautiful princess for him. Mother does just that, but the king, in response to this courtship, gives Martynka a task: let him build a palace, a crystal bridge and a five-domed cathedral in one day. If he does this - let him marry the princess, if he doesn't - he will be executed.

Martynka throws the ring from hand to hand, twelve fellows appear and carry out the royal order. The king has to give his daughter to Martin. But the princess does not love her husband. She steals a magic ring from him and with its help is carried away to distant lands, to the mouse state. She leaves Martinka in poverty, in her former hut. Having learned about the disappearance of his daughter, the king orders Martynka to be imprisoned in a stone pillar and starves him.

Vaska the cat and Zhurka the dog run to the post and look in the window. They promise to help the owner. A cat and a dog throw themselves at the feet of street vendors, and then bring Martynka rolls, rolls and bottles of sour cabbage soup.

Vaska and Zhurka go to the mouse state - to get a magic ring. They swim across the sea - a cat on the back of a dog. In the mouse kingdom, Vaska begins to choke the mice until the mouse king asks for mercy. Vaska and Zhurka demand a magic ring. One little mouse volunteers to get it. He sneaks into the bedroom to the princess, and she, even when she sleeps, keeps the ring in her mouth. The mouse tickles her nose with its tail, she sneezes and loses the ring. And then the little mouse brings the ring to Zhurka and Vaska.

The dog and the cat are going back. Vaska holds the ring in his teeth. When they cross the sea, Vaska is pecked in the head by a raven, and the cat drops the ring into the water. Having reached the shore, Vaska and Zhurka begin to catch crayfish. The king cancer asks for mercy, the crayfish push a beluga fish ashore, having swallowed the ring.

Vaska is the first to grab the ring and run away from Zhurka in order to take all the credit for himself. The dog catches up with him, but the cat climbs the tree. Zhurka guards Vaska for three days, but then they reconcile.

The cat and the dog run to the stone pillar and give the ring to the owner. Martinka regains the palace, the crystal bridge and the cathedral. Returns and unfaithful wife. The king orders her to be executed. “But Martinka still lives, chews bread.”

Horns

The old man gives his son, whose name is Monkey, to the soldiers. Teachings are not given to the Monkey, and they tear him with rods. And now the Monkey dreams that if he runs away to another kingdom, he will find there one-gold cards with which you can beat anyone, and a purse from which money does not decrease, even pour out a mountain of gold.

The dream comes true. With cards and a purse in his pocket, Monkey comes to a tavern and starts a fight with a sutler. The generals come running - they are outraged by the behavior of the Monkey. True, seeing his wealth, the generals change their minds. They play cards with Monkey, he beats them, but he gives them back all his winnings. The generals tell their king about the Monkey. The King comes to the Monkey and also plays cards with him. The monkey, having won, gives back the winnings to the king.

The king makes Monkey the chief minister and builds a three-story house for him. The monkey, in the absence of the king, rules the kingdom for three years and does a lot of good for ordinary soldiers and poor brethren.

The King's daughter Nastasya invites Monkey to visit. They play cards, and then at the meal, Nastasya the Princess brings him a glass of "sleeping potion". Then he takes away the cards and wallet from the sleeping Monkey and orders him to be thrown into the dung pit. Waking up, the Monkey gets out of the pit, puts on his old soldier's dress and leaves the kingdom. On the way, he meets an apple tree, eats an apple, and his horns grow. He takes an apple from another tree, and the horns fall off. Then the Monkey picks up apples of both varieties and returns to the kingdom.

The monkey gives a good apple to the old shopkeeper, and she becomes young and fat. In gratitude, the shopkeeper gives Monkey a sutler's dress. He goes to sell apples, gives an apple to Nastasya's maid, and she also becomes beautiful, fat. Seeing this, the princess also wants apples. But they do not benefit her: Nastasya the Princess grows horns. And the Monkey, dressed up as a doctor, goes to treat the princess. He takes her to the bathhouse, whips her with a copper rod and forces her to confess what sin she has committed. The princess is guilty of having deceived the minister, and she hands over the cards and her wallet. Then Monkey treats her with good apples: Nastasya's horns fall off, and she becomes a beauty. The king again makes Monkey the chief minister and gives Nastasya the princess for him.

Legless and armless heroes

The prince is thinking of getting married, but only knows that the princess, to whom he is wooing, has already killed many suitors. The poor peasant Ivan Naked comes to the prince and promises to arrange the matter.

The prince and Ivan the Naked are going to the princess. She offers the fiancé a test: to shoot from a heroic gun, a bow, to ride a heroic horse. All this is done by a servant instead of the prince. When Ivan Naked fired an arrow, it hit the hero Mark Begun and beat off both his hands.

The princess agrees to marry. After the wedding, she puts her hand on her husband at night, and he begins to choke. Then the princess realizes that she was deceived, and her husband is not a hero. She is plotting revenge. The prince and his wife are on their way home. When Ivan Naked falls asleep, the princess cuts off his legs, leaves Ivan in an open field, orders the prince to stand on his heels and turns the carriage back to her kingdom. When she returns, she forces her husband to herd the pigs.

Ivan Naked is found by Marco Begun. Legless and armless heroes live together in the forest. They steal one priest, and she helps them with the housework. A serpent flies to the priest, because of which she withers and grows thin. The bogatyrs catch the snake and force it to show the lake where the living water is. From bathing in this water, the heroes grow arms and legs. Marco Begun returns the priesthood to his father and himself remains to live with this priest

Ivan Naked goes to look for the prince and finds him herding pigs. The prince changes clothes with Ivan. He rides a horse, and Ivan drives the pigs. The princess sees from the window that the cattle are being driven at the wrong time, and orders the shepherd to be torn out. But Ivan Naked drags her by the braids until she repents. Since then, she begins to obey her husband. And Ivan Naked serves with them.

The Sea King and Vasilisa the Wise

The king travels to foreign lands, and in the meantime, his son Ivan Tsarevich is born at home. When the king drinks water from the lake, the sea king grabs him by the beard and demands to give him what he “does not know at home”. The king agrees. Only upon arrival home does he realize his mistake.

When Ivan Tsarevich becomes an adult, the tsar takes him to the lake and orders him to look for the ring that he allegedly lost. The prince meets an old woman who explains to him that he has been given to the sea king. The old woman advises Ivan Tsarevich to wait on the shore for the appearance of thirteen doves - beautiful maidens, and to steal the shirt from the last, thirteenth. The prince listens to advice. Doves fly in, turn into girls and bathe. Then they fly away, only the youngest remains, from whom the prince steals the shirt. This is Vasilisa the Wise. She gives the prince a ring and shows the way to the sea kingdom, and she flies away.

The prince comes to the sea kingdom. The king of the sea orders him to sow a huge wasteland and grow rye there, and if the prince does not do this, he will be executed.

Ivan Tsarevich tells Vasilisa about his misfortune. She tells him to go to bed, and orders her faithful servants to do everything. The next morning the rye is already high. The tsar gives Ivan Tsarevich a new task: to thresh three hundred stacks of wheat overnight. At night, Vasilisa the Wise orders the ants to choose grain from stacks. Then the king orders the prince to build a church of pure wax overnight. Vasilisa orders the bees to do this as well. Then the tsar allows Ivan Tsarevich to marry any of his daughters.

Ivan Tsarevich marries Vasilisa the Wise. After some time, he confesses to his wife that he wants to go to Holy Russia. Vasilisa spits in three corners, locks up her tower and runs away with her husband to Russia. Messengers from the sea king come to call the young to the palace. Saliva from three corners tells them that it is still early. In the end, the messengers break down the door, and the chamber is empty.

The sea king sets up a chase. Vasilisa, hearing the chase, turns into a sheep, and turns her husband into a shepherd. The envoys do not recognize them and return back. The sea king sends a new chase. Now Vasilisa is turning into a church, and turning the prince into a priest. The chase is back. The sea king himself starts after him. Vasilisa turns horses into a lake, her husband into a drake, and she herself turns into a duck. The sea king recognizes them, becomes an eagle, but cannot kill a drake and a duck, because they dive.

Young people come to the kingdom of Ivan Tsarevich. The prince wants to report to his father-mother and asks Vasilisa to wait for him in the forest. Vasilisa warns that the prince will forget her. This is how it happens.

Vasilisa is hired as a worker for mallow. She molds two doves from dough, which fly to the palace to the prince and beat at the windows. The prince, seeing them, remembers Vasilisa, finds her, brings her to her father-mother, and everyone lives together.

Feather Finista - clear falcon

The old man has three daughters. The father is going to the city, the eldest and middle daughter are asked to buy fabrics for their dress, and the smaller one - Finista's feather - is clear of a falcon. Returning, the father gives the eldest daughters updates, but he could not find the feather. The next time, the older sisters receive a scarf each, but the promised younger feather is missing again. For the third time, the old man finally buys a feather for a thousand rubles.

In the room of the younger daughter, the feather turns into Tsarevich Finist The Tsarevich and the girl are talking. Sisters hear voices. Then the prince turns into a falcon, and the girl lets him fly. The elder sisters stick knives and needles into the window frame. Returning, Finist wounds his wings on the knives and flies away, ordering the girl to look for him in a distant kingdom. She hears it through a dream.

The girl stocks up on three pairs of iron shoes, three cast-iron staves, three stone marshmallows, and goes to look for Finist. On the way, she spends the night with three old women. One gives her a golden spindle, the other a silver dish with a golden egg, the third a golden hoop with a needle.

The prosvirs are already gnawed, the staves are broken, the shoes are trampled. The maiden learns that Finist in such and such a city married a prosvirnina's daughter, and is hired to be a worker for the prosvirina. She gives gifts from old women to her sallow daughter in exchange for the right to stay with Finist for three nights.

The wife mixes Finisgu with a sleeping potion. He sleeps and does not see the red maiden, does not hear her words. On the third night, the girl's hot tear wakes up Finista. The prince and the girl run away from the mallow.

Finist again turns into a feather, and the girl comes home with him. She says she was on a pilgrimage. The father and elder daughters leave for matins. The younger one stays at home and, after a while, goes to church with Tsarevich Finist, in a golden carriage and precious attire. In church, relatives do not recognize the girl, but she does not open up to them. The same thing happens the next day. On the third day, the father guesses everything, makes the daughter confess, and the red maiden marries Prince Finist.

Tricky Science

A grandfather and a woman have a son. I want the old man to give the guy to science, but there is no money. The old man takes his son around the cities, but no one wants to teach him without money. One day they meet a man who agrees to teach the guy tricky science for three years. But he sets a condition: if the old man does not recognize his son in three years, he will forever remain with the teacher.

The day before the appointed time, the son flies to his father as a small bird and tells that the teacher has eleven more students whom the parents did not recognize, and they remained with the owner forever.

The son teaches the father how to recognize him.

The owner (and he turned out to be a sorcerer) wraps his students with doves, stallions, good fellows, but in all guises the father recognizes his son. Father and son go home.

On the way they meet the master. The son turns into a dog and tells his father to sell him to the master, but without a collar. The old man sells with a collar. The son still manages to escape from the master and return home.

After some time, the son turns into a bird, tells his father to sell him at the market, but without a cage. The father does just that. The teacher-sorcerer buys a bird, and she flies away.

Then the son turns into a stallion and asks his father to sell him without a bridle. The father again sells the horse to the sorcerer, but he also has to give up the bridle. The sorcerer brings the horse home and ties it up. The sorcerer's daughter out of pity wants to lengthen the reins, and the horse runs away. The sorcerer is chasing him gray wolf. The good fellow turns into a ruff, the sorcerer turns into a pike ... Then the ruff turns into a golden ring, the merchant's daughter takes it, but the sorcerer demands that she give the ring. The girl throws the ring, it crumbles into grains, and the sorcerer in the form of a rooster pecks the grain. One grain turns into a hawk that bullies a rooster.

Sister Alyonushka, brother Ivanushka

The king and queen are dying; their children Alyonushka and Ivanushka go on a journey.

Children see a herd of cows near the pond. The sister persuades the brother not to drink from this pond, so as not to become a calf. They see a herd of horses by the water, and a herd of pigs, and a herd of goats. Alyonushka warns her brother everywhere. But in the end, having disobeyed his sister, he drinks and becomes a kid.

Alyonushka ties him by the belt and leads him with her. They enter the royal garden. The king asks Alyonushka who she is. Soon he will marry her.

On Alyonushka, who has become the queen, an evil sorceress puts on damage. She herself undertakes to treat the queen: she orders to go to the sea and drink water there. By the sea, the sorceress drowns Alyonushka. The kid, seeing this, cries. And the sorceress takes the form of Queen Alyonushka.

The imaginary queen offends Ivanushka. She begs the king to order the goat to be slaughtered. The king, though reluctantly, agrees. The kid asks permission to go to the sea. There he asks his sister to swim out, but she answers from under the water that she cannot. The little kid returns, but then asks for more and more to go to the sea. The king, surprised, secretly follows him. There he hears a conversation between Alyonushka and Ivanushka. Alyonushka tries to swim out, and the tsar pulls her ashore. The little kid talks about what happened, and the king orders the execution of the sorceress.

Princess Frog

The king has three sons. The younger one's name is Ivan Tsarevich. The king tells them to shoot arrows in different directions. Each of them must woo the girl on whose yard his arrow will fall. The arrow of the eldest son falls on the boyar court, the middle one - on the merchant's, and the arrow of Ivan Tsarevich - in the swamp, and the frog picks it up.

The eldest son marries a hawthorn, the middle son marries a merchant's daughter, and Ivan Tsarevich has to marry a frog.

The king orders his daughters-in-law to bake white bread each. Ivan Tsarevich is upset, but the frog comforts him. At night, she turns into Vasilisa the Wise and orders her nurses to bake bread. In the morning, glorious bread is ready. And the king orders his daughters-in-law to weave a carpet in one night. Ivan Tsarevich is sad. But at night the frog again turns into Vasilisa the Wise and gives orders to the nurses. The next morning, a wonderful carpet is ready.

The king orders his sons to come to him for a review along with their wives. The wife of Ivan Tsarevich appears in the guise of Vasilisa the Wise. She dances, and from the waves of her hands a lake appears, swans swim on the water. The wives of other princes try to imitate her, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Ivan Tsarevich finds the frog skin shed by his wife and burns it. Upon learning of this, Vasilisa grieves, turns into a white swan and flies out the window, ordering the prince to look for her at distant lands near Koshchei the Immortal. Ivan Tsarevich goes to look for his wife and meets an old man who explains that Vasilisa had to live for three years as a frog - such was her punishment from her father. The old man gives the prince a ball that will lead him along.

On the way, Ivan Tsarevich wants to kill a bear, a drake, a hare, but spares them. Seeing a pike on the sand, he throws it into the sea.

The prince enters the hut on chicken legs to see Baba Yaga. She says that it is difficult to cope with Koshchei: his death is in a needle, a needle in an egg, an egg in a duck, a duck in a hare, a hare in a chest, and a chest on an oak tree. Yaga indicates the place where the oak is located. The animals, whom Ivan Tsarevich spared, help him get a needle, and Koshchei has to die. And the prince takes Vasilisa home.

Nesmeyana Princess

Nesmeyana the princess lives in the royal chambers and never smiles, never laughs. The king promises to marry Nesmeyana to someone who can cheer her up. Everyone tries to do it, but no one succeeds.

And at the other end of the kingdom lives a worker. Its owner is a kind man. At the end of the year, he puts a bag of money in front of the worker: “Take as much as you want!” And he takes only one money, and he drops it into the well. He works for the owner for another year. At the end of the year, the same thing happens, and again the poor worker drops his money into the water. And in the third year he takes a coin, goes to the well and sees: the two old coins have surfaced. He takes them out and decides to look at the white light. A mouse, a bug and a catfish with a big mustache beg him for money. The worker is left with nothing. He comes to the city, sees Nesmeyana the princess in the window, and before her eyes falls into the mud. A mouse, a bug and a catfish immediately appear: they help, they take off the dress, they clean the boots. The princess, looking at their services, laughs. The king asks who is the cause of the laughter. The princess points to the worker. And then the tsar marries Nesmeyan to a worker.