The tale of the priest and his worker Balda - plot
The greedy priest wanted to find himself a worker who could do everything, but would not charge a lot of money for his work. At the bazaar, he accidentally met a shirtless guy named Balda, who was wandering around with nothing to do. Balda agreed to work for the priest for a year, and instead of payment, he would just give the owner three clicks on the forehead at the end of the year.
Balda worked hard all year. The time of reckoning was approaching, and the priest was afraid of it. On the priest's advice, he decided to give Balda a service that he could not perform, and, under the pretext of non-fulfillment, avoid three clicks. The priest instructed Balda to take the rent from the devils who lived in the sea - they allegedly were three years behind in paying it.
Balda went to the sea and began to stir it up with a rope. Devils came out of the water. Balda demanded a quitrent, but the devils said that they would give it back only if he won the competition against them. At first they suggested running a race around the sea. Balda let a hare take his place, passing it off as his younger brother. Then Balda began to compete with the devils to see who could carry the mare the farthest. The devil dragged her on his back for only three steps. Balda announced that he would be able to carry the mare not only on his back, but even between his own legs: he jumped astride her and galloped a mile before the eyes of the devils.
Recognizing themselves defeated, the devils gave the quitrent to Balda. He delivered it to the ass, who could already dodge three clicks on the forehead. From Balda’s first click the priest jumped to the ceiling, from the second he was speechless, and from the third his mind was knocked out.
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan - plot
Tsar Saltan went to war with his neighbors, and at that time his young wife gave birth to a heroic son. But the royal wife was envied by her two sisters, who served as a weaver and cook in the palace. They sent a letter to the tsar saying that his wife gave birth not to a human being, but to an “unknown little animal,” and then they replaced Saltan’s reply message, enclosing an order to put the tsarina “and the offspring” in a barrel and throw it into Okiyan.
The barrel was carried along the waves for a long time, but through the prayer of the unfortunate queen it was thrown onto a deserted shore. The son, who had already become a hero, made a bow from an oak branch and went hunting. By chance, seeing a black kite attack a swan swimming on the sea, the knight killed the predator with an arrow from a bow.
The swan turned out to be a good sorceress. In a human voice, she said that now she would always help her savior. By the magic of swans, a large and beautiful city appeared on a deserted island. The prince, calling himself Prince Guidon, sat down to rule over him.
But he yearned for his deceived father. Merchant ships often sailed past the island to the land of Tsar Saltan. Guidon instructed the merchants to convey their bow to Saltan, without telling them that he himself was Saltan’s son.
The news brought by merchants about a wonderful city, which appeared out of nowhere on an empty island, struck Saltan. Having also received a bow from Guidon, he became eager to sail to visit him. But the insidious weaver and cook dissuaded the king several times, convincing him that there were other, even more amazing miracles in the world: for example, a squirrel, which, sitting under a tree, gnaws nuts with golden shells and emerald kernels, or thirty-three heroes emerging from the sea depths to the shores under the leadership of uncle Chernomor. The main miracle is the princess living across the sea, who “eclipses the light of God during the day, illuminates the earth at night, the moon shines under the scythe, and the star burns in her forehead.”
By the magic of the swans, a fabulous squirrel with nuts and thirty-three heroes appeared on the island of Guidon. The princess with the moon and star turned out to be the swan herself. She took on her true appearance before the prince, and Guidon married her. Having learned about all these new miracles, Tsar Saltan stopped listening to the entreaties of the weaver and the cook and sailed to Guidon with the fleet. Stepping onto the island, the king immediately recognized his wife and son. Their meeting was celebrated with a merry feast.
For more details, see the separate article The Tale of Tsar Saltan - summary. See also the full text of the tale.
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The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish - plot
A poor old fisherman, living with his old woman in a shack by the sea, once caught a goldfish in the sea. She spoke to him in a human voice and promised a big reward if the old man let her go. The good fisherman let the fish go for nothing, but at home his wife, having learned about this, scolded him: “You, fool and simpleton, could not even ask the fish for a new trough instead of our broken one.”
The old man went to the sea, called the fish and asked her for a trough. The fish granted his wish. But the selfish old woman ordered the old man to beg the fish for a new hut. Having received a hut, she wanted to become a noblewoman from a peasant woman, and then a free queen. The fish fulfilled these requests as well. But the old woman, who now lived in the palace, surrounded by boyars and nobles, in the end wanted to become the mistress of the sea, and to have the fish on her parcels.
Hearing from the fisherman about this new whim of his wife, the fish silently disappeared into the waves. The old man went home and saw on the site of the palace his former miserable shack and his wife sitting by an old broken trough.
For more details, see the separate article The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish - summary. See also the full text of the tale.
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The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights - plot
The queen gave birth to a daughter for her husband, the king, and died after giving birth. A year later, the king married an evil and treacherous beauty, who every now and then looked into a magic mirror that could speak. The mirror confirmed to the new empress that she was “the sweetest, most rosy and whitest in the world.”
But the young princess also grew up in the palace, finally becoming more beautiful than her stepmother. The mirror began to tell her that the first beauty in the world was no longer she, but the princess. The queen, in anger, ordered the hay girl Chernavka to take the princess into the forest, tie her there and throw her to be devoured by the wolves. However, Chernavka, out of pity, simply left the girl in the thicket without tying her up.
The princess walked through the forest and came across a tall, beautiful tower. Seven brave heroic brothers lived in it, who happily settled the hard-working and kind beauty as their sister.
However, the evil stepmother soon learned from a magic mirror that her stepdaughter had not died and was living in a forest mansion. She sent an old woman there under the guise of a beggar with a poisoned apple. Having bitten off a piece of the apple, the princess died. Seven heroes put her in a crystal coffin and hung it in a cave hidden from human eyes on six cast-iron chains attached to pillars.
The princess was searched all over the world by her ex-fiancé, Prince Elisha. For a long time he could not find a bride. Neither the sun nor the month looked into the cave with the coffin, and they could not tell the prince where his betrothed was now. Elisha learned about this from the wind that blows everywhere.
Having galloped into the cave, in deep grief he fell on the coffin and broke it with his forehead. The dead princess suddenly came to life. Elisha took her to the capital with glee to play the wedding, but the evil stepmother died of envy.
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The Tale of the Golden Cockerel - plot
Neighbors attacked the possessions of King Dadon from all sides. Not knowing where the next invasion would be, Dadon did not have time to transfer his army from one border to another. Finally, one wizard gave him a golden cockerel to help him. Mounted on a high knitting needle, as enemies approached, the cockerel turned in the direction from which they were coming and began to crow loudly. Now quickly learning about the plans of the enemies, Dadon defeated them all. To celebrate, he solemnly promised to fulfill at any moment every wish of the wizard who brought the cockerel.
Peace came, but after a year or two the cockerel began to beat again and scream, turning to the east. Dadon sent an army there led by his eldest son, but there was no news from him for eight days. Dadon sent a second army led by his youngest son, but it too disappeared somewhere. Dadon then moved east himself, with a third army.
Having reached the mountains eight days later, the king saw a magnificent tent. Around him lay dead the soldiers of the two armies and both of his sons, who had killed each other. An unprecedented beauty suddenly came out of the tent - the Shamakhan queen. Looking at her, Dadon immediately forgot the grief of the death of his children. He spent eight days enjoying himself in the queen’s tent, and then took her to his capital city.
But among the crowd of people at the city gates, a wizard made his way to him and gave him a cockerel. Recalling Dadon’s previous promise, he demanded that the king give him the Shamakhan beauty. Dadon, in anger, hit the magician on the forehead with his staff and killed him. Then a golden cockerel flew off the needle and pecked him on the forehead. Dadon fell dead, and the Shamakhan queen disappeared without a trace.
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Morozko
The stepmother lives with her own 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 bitter cold.” He obeys.
In an open field, Frost the Red Nose greets a girl. She answers kindly. Frost feels sorry for his stepdaughter, and he does not freeze her, but gives her a dress, a fur coat, and a dowry chest.
The stepmother is already holding a wake for her stepdaughter and tells the old man to go to the field and bring the girl’s body to bury. The old man returns and brings his daughter - alive, dressed up, 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
The parents go to work, telling their daughter not to leave the yard and take care of her little brother. But the girl puts her brother under the window, and she runs out into the street. Meanwhile, the geese-swans 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 milk river - the banks of jelly. A girl asks them about her brother, but the stove asks her to try a pie, the apple tree asks for an apple, the river asks for jelly with milk. The picky girl disagrees. She meets a hedgehog who shows her the way. He comes to a hut on chicken legs, looks in - and there is Baba Yaga and his brother. The girl carries off her brother, and the swan geese fly after her.
The girl asks the river to hide her and agrees to eat the jelly. Then the apple tree hides her, and the girl has to eat a forest apple, then she hides in the oven and eats a rye pie. The geese don't see her and fly away with nothing.
The girl and her brother come running home, and just then the father and mother arrive.
Ivan Bykovich
The king and queen have no children. They dream that the queen will become pregnant if she eats the golden-finned ruff. The ruff is caught and fried, the cook licks the queen's dishes, the cow drinks the slop. The queen gives birth to Ivan Tsarevich, the cook gives birth to Ivan, the cook's son, and the cow gives birth to Ivan Bykovich. All three guys look alike.
The Ivans try their hand at deciding which of them should be the big brother. Ivan Bykovich turns out to be the strongest... Well done, they find a large stone in the garden, under it there is a basement, and there are three heroic horses standing there. The Tsar allows the Ivans to travel to foreign lands.
Good fellows come to Baba Yaga's hut. She says that on the Smorodina River, on the Kalinov Bridge, there live miracles-Yudas, who destroyed all the neighboring kingdoms.
The fellows come to the Smorodina River, stop in an empty hut and decide to take turns going on patrol. Ivan Tsarevich falls asleep on patrol. Ivan Bykovich, not relying on him, comes to the Kalinov Bridge, fights with the six-headed miracle, kills him and places 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 for a fight with the twelve-headed miracle. He asks the brothers to stay awake and watch: blood will flow from the towel into the bowl. If it overflows, you need to rush to help.
Ivan Bykovich fights with the miracle, the brothers fall asleep. It’s hard for Ivan Bykovich. He throws his mittens into the hut - breaks through the roof, breaks out the windows, and the brothers are all asleep. Finally, he throws the hat, which destroys the hut. The brothers wake up, and the bowl is already overflowing with blood. They release the heroic horse from the chains and run to help themselves. But while they are keeping up, Ivan Bykovich is already coping with the miracle.
After that, the miracle Yudov’s 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 on the way of good fellows. But Ivan Bykovich finds out about their plans and cuts down an apple tree, a well, and a crib. Then the miracle Yud’s mother-in-law, an old witch, dresses up as a beggar woman and asks for alms from the fellows. Ivan Bykovich is about to give it to her, and she takes the hero by the hand, and both end up in her old husband’s dungeon.
The witch's husband's eyelashes are lifted with an iron pitchfork. The old man orders Ivan Bykovich to bring the queen - golden curls. The witch drowns herself in grief. The old man teaches the hero to open the magic oak and take the ship out of there. And Ivan Bykovich brings out many ships and boats from the oak tree. Several old people ask Ivan Bykovich to be travel companions. One is Obedailo, the other is Opivailo, the third knows how to take a steam bath, the fourth is an astrologer, the fifth swims with a ruff. Everyone goes together to the queen - golden curls. There, in her unprecedented kingdom, the old people help to eat and drink all the treats and cool down the hot bath.
The queen leaves with Ivan Bykovich, but on the way she turns into a star and flies away into 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, stabs her in the sides, and she returns to the ship. The old people say goodbye to Ivan Bykovich, and he and the queen go to the miracle Yudov’s father. Ivan Bykovich proposes a test: the one who walks along a perch through a deep hole will marry the queen. Ivan Bykovich passes, and Miracle Yudov’s father flies into the pit.
Ivan Bykovich returns home to his brothers, marries the queen - golden curls and gives a wedding feast.
Seven Simeons
The old man gives birth to seven sons on one day, they are all called Simeons. When the Simeons are left orphans, they do all the work in the field. The king, driving by, sees small children working in the field, calls them to him and questions them. One of them says that he wants to be a blacksmith and forge a huge pillar, another wants to look from this pillar, the third to be a ship carpenter, the fourth to be a helmsman, the fifth to hide a ship at the bottom of the sea, the sixth to get it out of there, and the seventh to be a thief. The king does not like the latter’s desire. 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 onto it and saw Helen the Beautiful in a distant country. The other brothers demonstrated their naval skills. And the king wants to hang the seventh - Simeon the thief - but he undertakes to steal Helen the Beautiful for him. All seven brothers go after 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 decorations and promises to show her an unusual stone if Elena comes to the ship.
As soon as Elena entered the ship, the fifth brother hid the ship to the bottom of the sea... And the sixth, when the danger of pursuit had passed, took him out and led him to his native shore. The Tsar generously rewarded the Simeons, married Helen the Beautiful and gave a feast.
Marya Morevna
Ivan Tsarevich has three sisters: Marya Tsarevna, Olga Tsarevna and Anna Tsarevna. When their parents die, the brother gives his sisters in marriage: Marya to a falcon, Olga to an eagle, and Anna to 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 further, 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 Koschey the Immortal is chained there. Ivan Tsarevich gives Koshchei something to drink. He, having gained strength, breaks the chains, flies away and carries Marya Morevna along the way. Her husband goes to look for her.
On the way, Ivan Tsarevich meets the palaces of a falcon, an eagle and a raven. He visits his sons-in-law and leaves them a silver spoon, fork, and knife as souvenirs. Having reached Marya Morevna, Ivan Tsarevich tries twice to take his wife home, but both times Koschey on a fast horse catches up with them and takes Marya Morevna away. The third time he kills Ivan Tsarevich and cuts his body into pieces.
The donated silver of Ivan Tsarevich's sons-in-law turns black. The falcon, eagle and raven find the severed body and sprinkle it with dead and living water. The prince comes to life.
Koschey the Immortal tells Marya Morevna that he took his horse from Baba Yaga, across the river of fire. 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 the chick, the lion cub, or even the honey of the bees, so as not to offend the bees. The prince hires himself out to Baba Yaga to herd her mares. It is impossible to keep track of them, but birds, lions and bees help the prince.
Ivan Tsarevich steals a mangy foal from Baba Yaga (in fact, it is a heroic horse). Baba Yaga gives chase, but drowns in a river of fire.
On his heroic horse, Ivan Tsarevich takes Marya Morevna away. Koschey catches up with them. The prince enters into battle with him and kills him.
Ivan Tsarevich and Marya Morevna stop by to visit the raven, eagle and falcon, and then go to their kingdom.
Emelya the Fool
The man had three sons; two are smart, and the third, Emelya, is a fool. The father dies, leaving everyone “one hundred rubles.” The older brothers go to trade, leaving Emelya at home with their daughters-in-law and promising to buy him red boots, a fur coat and a caftan.
In winter, when there is severe frost, the daughters-in-law send Emelya to fetch water. With great reluctance, he goes to the ice hole, fills a bucket... And catches a pike in the ice hole. Pike promises to make Emelino’s every wish come true if he lets her go. She reveals the magic words to the guy: “At the behest of the pike, at my will.” Emelya releases the pike. With the help of miraculous words, his first wish is fulfilled: buckets of water go home on their own.
A short time later, the daughters-in-law force Emelya to go into the yard to chop wood. Emelya orders the ax to chop the wood, and the wood to go to the hut and go into the oven. The daughters-in-law are amazed.
They send Emelya into the forest to get firewood. He doesn’t harness the horses, the sleigh drives itself from the yard. Driving through the city, Emelya crushes a lot of people. In the forest, an ax chops firewood and a club for Emelya.
On the way back in the city, they try to catch Emelya and crush his sides. And Emelya orders his baton to beat all the offenders and returns home safely.
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 in the face. Then Emelina hits both the officer and his soldiers with her baton. The officer reports all this to the king. The king sends an intelligent man to Emelya. He first talks to his daughters-in-law and finds out that the fool loves affectionate treatment. Promising Emelya delicacies and refreshments, he persuades him to come to the king. Then the fool tells his furnace 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 makes Emelya drunk, and then ties him up, puts him in a wagon and takes him to the palace. The king orders him to make a large barrel, put his daughter and the fool in it, tar the barrel and put it into the sea.
A fool wakes up in a barrel. The king's daughter tells him what happened and asks him to free himself and her from the barrel. The fool says the magic words, and the sea throws the barrel ashore. She's falling apart.
Emelya and the princess find themselves on a beautiful island. According to Emelin's desire, a huge palace and a crystal bridge to the royal palace appear. Then Emelya himself becomes smart and handsome.
Emelya invites the king to visit her. He arrives and 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 Svyala Andronovich had three sons: Dmitry, Vasily and Ivan. Every night the firebird flies into the royal garden and pecks at the golden apples on the king’s favorite apple tree. Tsar Vyslav promises to make the one of his sons who catches the firebird heir to the kingdom. First, Dmitry Tsarevich goes into the garden to guard her, but falls asleep at his post. The same thing happens to Vasily the Tsarevich. And Ivan Tsarevich lies in wait for the firebird, grabs it, but she breaks away, 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 ones. Ivan Tsarevich arrives at a post 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 and not touch the cage. But the prince takes the cage, there is a knock and thunder, the guards catch him and lead him to the king. King Dolmat agrees to forgive the prince and give him the 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 listen to him. Again, Tsarevich Ivan 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 and rushes her and Ivan Tsarevich to Tsar Afron. But the prince feels sorry for giving the princess to Afron. The wolf takes the form of Helen, and King Afron happily gives the prince the horse for the imaginary princess.
And the wolf runs away from Tsar Afron and catches up with Ivan Tsarevich.
After this, 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 takes its form and runs to Ivan Tsarevich. The wolf takes Ivan Tsarevich to the place where he tore his horse apart and says goodbye to him. The prince and the queen continue on their way. They stop to rest and fall asleep. Dmitry Tsarevich and Vasily Tsarevich find them sleeping, kill their brother, take the horse and the firebird. The princess is ordered to remain silent about everything on pain of death and is taken with them. Dmitry Tsarevich is going to marry her.
And the gray wolf finds the chopped body of Ivan Tsarevich. He waits for the crows to appear and grabs the little crow. The raven father promises to bring dead and living water if the wolf does not touch his creation. The raven fulfills his promise, the wolf sprinkles the body with dead and then 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. When Elena the Beautiful sees him, she decides to tell the whole truth. And then the king puts his eldest sons in prison, and Ivan Tsarevich marries Helen 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 brother, Ivan the Fool, to spend the night in his place. Ivan agrees. At midnight, the father emerges from the grave. He calls the heroic horse Sivka-burka and orders him to serve his son. The middle brother does the same as the elder. Again Ivan spends the night at the grave, and at midnight the same thing happens. On the third night, when it’s Ivan’s turn, everything repeats itself.
The king calls out: whoever tears off the portrait of the princess, painted on his fly (that is, on a towel), from a high house, the princess will marry him. The older and middle brothers go to see 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 for the Sivka Burka, climbs into one of the horse’s ears, comes out of the other and becomes a fine fellow. He goes for the portrait.
The horse gallops high, but the portrait is only three logs short. The brothers see this. Returning home, they tell their wives about the daring fellow, but do not know that it is their brother. The next day the same thing happens - Ivan is again a little short. For the third time he tears down the portrait.
The king summons people of all classes to a feast. Ivan the Fool also comes and sits down at the stove. The princess treats the guests and looks: who will wipe his fly with the portrait? But she does not see Ivan. The feast goes the next day, but the princess again does not find her betrothed. The third time she discovers Ivan the Fool with a portrait behind the stove and happily leads him to his father. Ivan's brothers are amazed.
They are having a wedding. Ivan, having dressed up and cleaned himself up, becomes a fine fellow: “It’s not Ivan the fool, but Ivan the Tsar’s son-in-law.”
Magic ring
An old hunter lives with his old woman and his son Martynka. Dying, he leaves his wife and son two hundred rubles. Martyn takes a hundred rubles and goes to the city to buy bread. But instead, he buys the dog Zhurka from the butchers, which they want to kill. It takes the 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.
Martyn's mother kicks him out of the house, and he hires himself out as a farm laborer for the priest. Three years later, the priest offers him a choice of a bag of silver and a bag of sand. The martynka selects sand, takes it and goes to look for another place. He comes to a forest clearing where a fire is burning, and in the fire is a girl. Martin covers the fire with sand. The girl turns into a snake and leads Martyn to the underground kingdom 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 woo the beautiful princess for him. The mother does so, but the king, in response to this matchmaking, 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 marry his daughter to Martyn. 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 Martynka in poverty, in the same hut. Having learned about the disappearance of his daughter, the king orders Martynka to be imprisoned in a stone pillar and starves him to death.
The cat Vaska and the dog Zhurka run to the post and look through the window. They promise to help the owner. The cat and the 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 strangle the mice until the mouse king asks for mercy. Vaska and Zhurka demand a magic ring. One mouse volunteers to get it. He sneaks into the princess’s bedroom, and she, even when sleeping, keeps the ring in her mouth. The mouse tickles her nose with its tail, she sneezes and loses the ring. And then the mouse brings the ring to Zhurka and Vaska.
The dog and the cat are walking back. Vaska holds the ring in his teeth. When they cross the sea, Vaska is hit 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 cancer king begs for mercy; the crayfish push a beluga fish onto the shore, which swallowed the ring.
Vaska is the first to grab the ring and runs away from Zhurka to take all the credit for himself. The dog catches up with him, but the cat climbs a tree. Zhurka watches Vaska for three days, but then they make up.
The cat and dog run to the stone pillar and give the ring to the owner. Martynka regains the palace, the crystal bridge and the cathedral. He also brings back his unfaithful wife. The king orders her execution. “And Martynka still lives, chews bread.”
Horns
The old man gives his son, whose name is Monkey, to become a soldier. Monkey is not given training, and he is beaten with rods. And so 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 wallet from which the money does not decrease, even if you pour out a mountain of gold.
The dream comes true. With cards and a wallet in his pocket, Monkey comes to the tavern and starts a fight with the 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 gives all his winnings back to them. The generals tell their king about the Monkey. The King comes to Monkey and also plays cards with him. The monkey, having won, gives his winnings back to the king.
The king makes Monkey the chief minister and builds a three-story house for him. The monkey rules the kingdom for three years in the absence of the king 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 during the meal Nastasya the Princess brings him a glass of “sleep potion.” Then he takes the cards and wallet from the sleeping Monkey and orders him to be thrown into a dung pit. Waking up, Monkey climbs out of the hole, puts on his old soldier's dress and leaves the kingdom. On the way, he meets an apple tree, eats the apple, and grows horns. 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 and fat. Seeing this, the princess also wants apples. But they do not benefit her: Nastasya the Princess grows horns. And 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 blames herself for deceiving the minister and hands over her cards and wallet. Then the Monkey treats her to 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 planning to marry, but he only knows that the princess to whom he is wooing has already ruined many suitors. Poor man Ivan the Naked comes to the prince and promises to arrange the matter.
The Tsarevich and Ivan Naked go to the princess. She offers the groom tests: shoot from a heroic gun, a bow, ride a heroic horse. All this is done by a servant instead of the prince. When Ivan the Naked shot an arrow, it hit the hero Mark Begun and knocked off both his hands.
The princess agrees to get married. 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 at all. She is plotting revenge. The prince and his wife are going home. When Ivan the 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 pigs.
Ivan the Naked is found by Marko Begun. The legless and armless heroes live together in the forest. They steal one of the priests, and she helps them with the housework. A snake flies to the priest, which is why she withers and loses weight. The heroes catch the snake and force it to show the lake where there is living water. From bathing in this water, warriors grow arms and legs. Marco Begun returns the share to his father and remains to live with this priest.
Ivan Naked goes to look for the prince and finds him grazing pigs. The Tsarevich exchanges clothes with Ivan. He rides a horse, and Ivan drives 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. From then on, she begins to obey her husband. And Ivan the Naked serves with them.
The Sea King and Vasilisa the Wise
The tsar travels through foreign lands, and meanwhile 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 something that he “doesn’t know at home.” The king agrees. Only upon arriving 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 supposedly lost. The prince meets an old woman who explains to him that he has been given to the king of the sea. The old woman advises Ivan Tsarevich to wait for thirteen doves - beautiful maidens - to appear on the shore and steal the shirt from the last, thirteenth. The prince listens to advice. The pigeons fly in, turn into girls and bathe. Then they fly away, leaving only the youngest, 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 commands 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 in one night. At night, Vasilisa the Wise orders the ants to select grain from the stacks. Then the king orders the prince to build a church from pure wax overnight. Vasilisa commands the bees to do this too. 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 Rus'. Vasilisa spits in three corners, locks her tower and runs away with her husband to Rus'. Envoys from the sea king come to call the young people to the palace. The droolers from the three corners tell them that it is still early. In the end, the messengers break down the door, and the mansion is empty.
The sea king sets up the pursuit. Vasilisa, hearing the chase, turns into a lamb, and turns her husband into a shepherd. The messengers 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 returns. The sea king himself sets off in pursuit. 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 the drake and the duck because they dive.
Young people come to the kingdom of Ivan Tsarevich. The prince wants to report to his father and 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 at a malt mill. She makes two doves from the dough, which fly to the prince’s palace and hit the windows. The prince, seeing them, remembers Vasilisa, finds her, brings her to her father and mother, and everyone lives together.
Feather of Finist - clear falcon
The old man has three daughters. The father is going to the city, the eldest and middle daughter ask to buy them fabrics for a dress, and the youngest - Finist's feather - the clear falcon. Having returned, the father gives his eldest daughters some new clothes, but he could not find the feather. The next time, the older sisters each receive a scarf, but the promised feather to the younger sisters is again missing. For the third time, the old man finally buys a feather for a thousand rubles.
In the room of the youngest daughter, the feather turns into the prince Finista The prince and the girl are having a conversation. The sisters hear voices. Then the prince turns into a falcon, and the girl lets him fly. The older sisters stick knives and needles into the window frame. Returning, Finist wounds his wings on the knives and flies away, telling the girl to look for him in the distant kingdom. She hears it through her sleep.
The girl stocks up with three pairs of iron shoes, three cast-iron staves, three stone prosvirs and goes to look for Finist. On the way, she spends the night with three old women. One gives her a golden spindle, another a silver dish with a golden egg, the third a golden hoop with a needle.
The bread has already been devoured, the staffs have been broken, the shoes have been trampled. The girl finds out that Finist in such and such a city married the daughter of the malt milk, and is hired by the malt mill as a worker. He gives the old women's gifts of malt to his daughter in exchange for the right to stay with Finist for three nights.
The wife mixes Finisga 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 tears wake up Finist. The prince and the girl are running away from the malt.
Finist turns into a feather again, and the girl comes home with him. She says she was on a pilgrimage. The father and eldest daughters leave for matins. The youngest stays at home and, after waiting a little, goes to church with Tsarevich Finist, in a golden carriage and precious attire. In church, the relatives do not recognize the girl, and she does not open up to them. The next day the same thing happens. On the third day, the father guesses everything, forces his daughter to confess, and the red maiden marries Prince Finist.
Tricky Science
Grandfather and woman have a son. The old man wants to send 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 a tricky science for three years. But he sets a condition: if the old man does not recognize his son after three years, he will remain with the teacher forever.
The day before the appointed time, the son flies to his father like a small bird and says that the teacher has eleven more students, whom the parents did not recognize, and they remained with the owner forever.
The son teaches his father how he can be recognized.
The owner (and he turned out to be a sorcerer) turns his students into pigeons, stallions, and good fellows, but in all forms the father recognizes his son. Father and son go home.
On the way they meet a 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 and tells his father to sell him at the market, but without a cage. The father does just that. The sorcerer teacher buys a bird, and it 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 the bridle. The sorcerer brings the horse home and ties it. The sorcerer's daughter, out of pity, wants to lengthen the reins, and the horse runs away. The sorcerer is chasing him with a gray wolf. The young man 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 scatters into grains, and the sorcerer in the guise of a rooster pecks at the grain. One grain turns into a hawk, which kills the rooster.
Sister Alyonushka, brother Ivanushka
The king and queen die; their children Alyonushka and Ivanushka go traveling.
Children see a herd of cows near a pond. The sister persuades her brother not to drink from this pond, so as not to become a calf. They see a herd of horses, a herd of pigs, and a herd of goats by the water. Alyonushka warns her brother everywhere. But in the end, he disobeys his sister, drinks and becomes a little goat.
Alyonushka ties him by the belt and takes him with him. They enter the royal garden. The Tsar asks Alyonushka who she is. Soon he will marry her.
Alyonushka, who has become a queen, is damaged by an evil witch. She herself undertakes to treat the queen: she orders her to go to the sea and drink water there. A witch drowns Alyonushka by the sea. The little goat, seeing this, cries. And the sorceress takes the form of Queen Alyonushka.
The imaginary queen offends Ivanushka. She begs the king to order the slaughter of the little goat. The king, albeit reluctantly, agrees. The little goat asks permission to go to the sea. There he asks his sister to swim out, but she replies from under the water that she cannot. The little goat returns, but then asks to go to the sea again and again. The king, surprised, secretly follows him. There he hears a conversation between Alyonushka and Ivanushka. Alyonushka tries to swim out, and the king pulls her ashore. The little goat tells about what happened, and the king orders the execution of the sorceress.
Princess Frog
The king has three sons. The youngest is called Ivan Tsarevich. The king orders them to shoot arrows in different directions. Each of them must woo the girl in whose yard his arrow will fall. The eldest son's arrow falls on the boyar's courtyard, the middle son's on the merchant's, and Ivan Tsarevich's arrow falls into the swamp, and is picked up by a frog.
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 consoles him. At night she turns into Vasilisa the Wise and orders her nannies to bake bread. The next morning the 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 nannies. The next morning a wonderful carpet is ready.
The king orders his sons to come to him for inspection 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 in the water. The wives of other princes try to imitate her, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Ivan Tsarevich finds the frog skin discarded by his wife and burns it. Having learned about this, Vasilisa grieves, turns into a white swan and flies out the window, ordering the prince to look for her 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 as a frog for three years - this was her punishment from her father. The old man gives the prince a ball,
When the whale had eaten all the fish, the little cunning fish described to him all the delights of the man's snack and told him where to find him, but warned him that man is a restless creature. The whale swallowed the sailor along with his raft and suspenders. In the stomach of the whale, the sailor began to run, jump and generally behave very actively, so that the whale felt unwell. When he asked his prey to crawl out of his stomach, the sailor promised to think about it if the whale took him home to the white cliffs of Albion. Before going home, the guy inserted a lattice of raft boards and suspenders into the whale’s throat, so that he could only eat very, very small fish. And the cunning fish swam away and hid in the mud, under the threshold of the equator, because it was afraid that the whale would be angry with it.
How a hump appeared on the camel's back
When the earth was completely new, the animals that helped man came to the camel living in the middle of the vast Howling Desert, and tried to attract him to active activity, but he only answered “grb” and gave up on their requests. The animals complained to the genie; when the camel told him his usual “hump,” he rewarded him with a hump so that the beast could work for 3 days without lunch breaks.
How folds appeared on the skin of a rhinoceros
The Persian-fire-worshipper baked sweet bread with raisins, but the rhinoceros drove him onto a palm tree and ate all the bread. When the rhinoceros took off all his smooth skin and went to swim, the man poured stale crumbs and burnt raisins into it. To get rid of the tingling, the rhinoceros began to rub against the palm tree, but only rubbed the folds and completely erased the buttons.
How the leopard became spotted
All the animals lived in the High Feldt desert, where they were easily found by hunters: humans and leopards. To protect themselves, the animals went into the forest and acquired masks with stripes and spots. The wise Babun advised the leopard to get spots, and the Ethiopian, too, to make changes to his appearance. In the forest they caught a zebra and a giraffe; they showed the hunters why they can hear and smell animals, but cannot see. The Ethiopian turned black and covered the leopard with 5 fingerprints.
Elephant child
When elephants did not have a trunk, the inquisitive baby elephant asked many questions, for which he was beaten several times. Finally, he wanted to know what the crocodile had for dinner. With this question he turned to the crocodile; he grabbed him by the nose and began to pull him into the water. The python pulled the curious baby out by its hind legs, but the baby elephant’s nose remained extended. With it he could get bananas, and also beat off all those who had previously spread their paws.
Old Kangaroo's Request
The kangaroo, who at that time had a fluffy skin and short legs, asked the three gods to make him different from the others, and so that everyone would know about him by 5 pm. He annoyed one of the gods so much that he asked the dingo to chase the kangaroo. As a result, the kangaroo's hind legs stretched out to make it easier to jump. But the dingo refused to thank him for purchasing the kangaroo.
How did armored carriers appear?
The jagua-riha told her inexperienced son about the hedgehog (you need to throw it into the water for it to turn around) and the turtle (it’s better to dig it out of its shell), but they managed to confuse the incomprehensible -nysha, who as a result of the hunt only painfully pricked his paw. To escape, the turtle began to learn to curl up into a ball, and the hedgehog learned to swim. As a result of the training, the turtle’s groin scutes separated, and the hedgehog’s spines stuck together. Jaguar Rikha advised her son to leave them alone and called the new animals armadillos.
How the first letter was written
A primitive man named Tegulai Bopsulai lost his spear. While he was repairing it, Tefi’s daughter sent a drawing with a stranger to her mother with a request to send a new spear, but she was afraid of the strange drawings and raised the whole village to beat the stranger (and his hair was washed out clay). This is how the first thought about the need for writing appeared.
How the first alphabet was composed
Tegumai and Tefi came up with images of letters in a few days: A is like the open mouth of a carp, U is like its tail, O is like a stone or an open mouth, etc. The letters were combined into words.
Sea crab who played with the sea
In the most ancient times, a wizard showed the animals how to play, and they began to play: beaver - beaver, cow - cow, etc. This game was too simple for a smart person. The sea crab decided to disappear and float sideways into the sea. Only Adam's daughter noticed this. The wizard approved the deeds of all animals (for example, he made the pieces of earth that the elephant threw into the Himalayan mountains). But Adam complained about the ebb and flow of the tides; It turned out that it was the Crab who was blaspheming. The wizard made him small and strips him of his armor once a year. The little girl gave the crab her scissors so that he could dig holes and open nuts.
The man was lazy and did not want to row to the shore. To make the sea work for him twice a day, the wizard gave a command to the old man of the moon and the rat that was gnawing his net (the fisherman dragged the sea past the continents with his net).
The cat who walked by himself
A wise primitive woman tamed animals (a dog with tasty bones, a horse and a cow with fragrant hay). The cat, who walked wherever he wanted, watched all this (he even received a promise of eternal enmity from the dog for not going with her on reconnaissance); the woman promised that if she praised the cat once, he could go into the cave, two times, he could sit near the fire, three times, he could drink milk 3 times a day. The woman did not want this, but the cat, playing with her baby and catching a mouse, achieved praise three times, which was due to the skin that blocked the entrance, the fire and the jugs of milk. But the man made an agreement with the cat: if he did not always catch mice, then the man would throw one of his five things at him (boots, a stone ax, a log and an ax), and the dog promised to chase him if he did not will be affectionate with the child.
The moth that stomped its foot
Suleiman-ibn-Daoud had many grumpy wives and one beloved wife, Balkis, as well as a magic ring that summoned genies (however, Suleiman did not want to show off his strength and pacify his spouse with the help of genies). In the garden, he once saw a married couple of moths who were quarreling, and the husband claimed that all he had to do was stamp his foot and the entire palace of Suleiman would disappear. Balkin’s wife, taught by him, dared him to stomp, and Suleiman, in cahoots with her husband, ordered the genies to carry the castle into the air. Thus, not only the moth’s wife was pacified, but also the sultana-scan-da-leafs.
Morozko
The stepmother lives with her own 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 bitter cold.” He obeys.
In an open field, Frost the Red Nose greets a girl. She answers kindly. Frost feels sorry for his stepdaughter, and he does not freeze her, but gives her a dress, a fur coat, and a dowry chest.
The stepmother is already holding a wake for her stepdaughter and tells the old man to go to the field and bring the girl’s body to bury. The old man returns and brings his daughter - alive, dressed up, 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
The parents go to work, telling their daughter not to leave the yard and take care of her little brother. But the girl puts her brother under the window, and she runs out into the street. Meanwhile, the geese-swans 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 milk river - the banks of jelly. A girl asks them about her brother, but the stove asks her to try a pie, the apple tree asks for an apple, the river asks for jelly with milk. The picky girl disagrees. She meets a hedgehog who shows her the way. He comes to a hut on chicken legs, looks in - and there is Baba Yaga and his brother. The girl carries off her brother, and the swan geese fly after her.
The girl asks the river to hide her and agrees to eat the jelly. Then the apple tree hides her, and the girl has to eat a forest apple, then she hides in the oven and eats a rye pie. The geese don't see her and fly away with nothing.
The girl and her brother come running home, and just then the father and mother arrive.
Ivan Bykovich
The king and queen have no children. They dream that the queen will become pregnant if she eats the golden-finned ruff. The ruff is caught and fried, the cook licks the queen's dishes, the cow drinks the slop. The queen gives birth to Ivan Tsarevich, the cook gives birth to Ivan, the cook's son, and the cow gives birth to Ivan Bykovich. All three guys look alike.
The Ivans try their hand at deciding which of them should be the big brother. Ivan Bykovich turns out to be the strongest... Well done, they find a large stone in the garden, under it there is a basement, and there are three heroic horses standing there. The Tsar allows the Ivans to travel to foreign lands.
Good fellows come to Baba Yaga's hut. She says that on the Smorodina River, on the Kalinov Bridge, there live miracles-Yudas, who destroyed all the neighboring kingdoms.
The fellows come to the Smorodina River, stop in an empty hut and decide to take turns going on patrol. Ivan Tsarevich falls asleep on patrol. Ivan Bykovich, not relying on him, comes to Kalinovy Bridge, fights with the six-headed miracle-yud, kills him and places 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 for a fight with the twelve-headed miracle. He asks the brothers to stay awake and watch: blood will flow from the towel into the bowl. If it overflows, you need to rush to help.
Ivan Bykovich fights with the miracle, the brothers fall asleep. It’s hard for Ivan Bykovich. He throws his mittens into the hut - breaks through the roof, breaks out the windows, and the brothers are all asleep. Finally, he throws the hat, which destroys the hut. The brothers wake up, and the bowl is already overflowing with blood. They release the heroic horse from the chains and run to help themselves. But while they are keeping up, Ivan Bykovich is already coping with the miracle.
After that, the miracle Yudov’s 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 on the way of good fellows. But Ivan Bykovich finds out about their plans and cuts down an apple tree, a well, and a crib. Then the miracle mother-in-law, an old witch, dresses up as a beggar woman and asks for alms from the fellows. Ivan Bykovich is about to give it to her, and she takes the hero by the hand, and both end up in her old husband’s dungeon.
The witch's husband's eyelashes are lifted with an iron pitchfork. The old man orders Ivan Bykovich to bring the queen - golden curls. The witch drowns herself in grief. The old man teaches the hero to open the magic oak and take the ship out of there. And Ivan Bykovich brings out many ships and boats from the oak tree. Several old people ask Ivan Bykovich to be travel companions. One is Obedailo, the other is Opivailo, the third knows how to take a steam bath, the fourth is an astrologer, the fifth swims with a ruff. Everyone goes to the queen together - golden curls. There, in her unprecedented kingdom, the old people help to eat and drink all the treats and cool down the hot bath.
The queen leaves with Ivan Bykovich, but on the way she turns into a star and flies away into 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, stabs her in the sides, and she returns to the ship. The old people say goodbye to Ivan Bykovich, and he and the queen go to the miracle Yudov’s father. Ivan Bykovich proposes a test: the one who walks along a perch through a deep hole will marry the queen. Ivan Bykovich passes, and Miracle Yudov’s father flies into the pit.
Ivan Bykovich returns home to his brothers, marries the queen - golden curls and gives a wedding feast.
Seven Simeons
The old man gives birth to seven sons on one day, they are all called Simeons. When the Simeons are left orphans, they do all the work in the field. The king, driving by, sees small children working in the field, calls them to him and questions them. One of them says that he wants to be a blacksmith and forge a huge pillar, another wants to look from this pillar, the third to be a ship carpenter, the fourth to be a helmsman, the fifth to hide a ship at the bottom of the sea, the sixth to get it out of there, and the seventh to be a thief. The king does not like the latter’s desire. 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 onto it and saw Helen the Beautiful in a distant country. The other brothers demonstrated their naval skills. And the seventh - Simeon the thief - the king wants to hang, but he undertakes to steal Helen the Beautiful for him. All seven brothers go after 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 decorations and promises to show her an unusual stone if Elena comes to the ship.
As soon as Elena entered the ship, the fifth brother hid the ship to the bottom of the sea... And the sixth, when the danger of pursuit had passed, took him out and brought him to his native shore. The Tsar generously rewarded the Simeons, married Helen the Beautiful and gave a feast.
Marya Morevna
Ivan Tsarevich has three sisters: Marya Tsarevna, Olga Tsarevna and Anna Tsarevna. When their parents die, the brother gives the sisters in marriage: Marya to a falcon, Olga to an eagle, and Anna to 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 further, 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 Koschey the Immortal is chained there. Ivan Tsarevich gives Koshchei something to drink. He, having gained strength, breaks the chains, flies away and carries Marya Morevna along the way. Her husband goes to look for her.
On the way, Ivan Tsarevich meets the palaces of a falcon, an eagle and a raven. He visits his sons-in-law and leaves them a silver spoon, fork, and knife as souvenirs. Having reached Marya Morevna, Ivan Tsarevich tries twice to take his wife home, but both times Koschey on a fast horse catches up with them and takes Marya Morevna away. The third time he kills Ivan Tsarevich and cuts his body into pieces.
The donated silver of Ivan Tsarevich's sons-in-law turns black. The falcon, eagle and raven find the severed body and sprinkle it with dead and living water. The prince comes to life.
Koschey the Immortal tells Marya Morevna that he took his horse from Baba Yaga, across the river of fire. 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 the chick, lion cub, or even bee honey, so as not to offend the bees. The prince hires himself out to Baba Yaga to herd her mares. It is impossible to keep track of them, but birds, lions and bees help the prince.
Ivan Tsarevich steals a mangy foal from Baba Yaga (in fact, it is a heroic horse). Baba Yaga gives chase, but drowns in a river of fire.
On his heroic horse, Ivan Tsarevich takes Marya Morevna away. Koschey catches up with them. The prince enters into battle with him and kills him.
Ivan Tsarevich and Marya Morevna stop by to visit the raven, eagle and falcon, and then go to their kingdom.
Emelya the Fool
The man had three sons; two are smart, and the third, Emelya, is a fool. The father dies, leaving everyone “one hundred rubles.” The older brothers go to trade, leaving Emelya at home with their daughters-in-law and promising to buy him red boots, a fur coat and a caftan.
In winter, when there is severe frost, the daughters-in-law send Emelya to fetch water. With great reluctance, he goes to the ice hole, fills a bucket... And catches a pike in the ice hole. Pike promises to make Emelino’s every wish come true if he lets her go. She reveals the magic words to the guy: “At the behest of the pike, at my will.” Emelya releases the pike. With the help of miraculous words, his first wish is fulfilled: buckets of water go home on their own.
A short time later, the daughters-in-law force Emelya to go into the yard to chop wood. Emelya orders the ax to chop the wood, and the wood to go to the hut and go into the oven. The daughters-in-law are amazed.
They send Emelya into the forest to get firewood. He doesn’t harness the horses, the sleigh drives itself from the yard. Driving through the city, Emelya crushes a lot of people. In the forest, an ax chops firewood and a club for Emelya.
On the way back in the city, they try to catch Emelya and crush his sides. And Emelya orders his baton to beat all the offenders and returns home safely.
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 in the face. Then Emelina beats both the officer and his soldiers with her baton. The officer reports all this to the king. The king sends an intelligent man to Emelya. He first talks to his daughters-in-law and finds out that the fool loves affectionate treatment. Promising Emelya delicacies and refreshments, he persuades him to come to the king. Then the fool tells his furnace 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 makes Emelya drunk, and then ties him up, puts him in a wagon and takes him to the palace. The king orders him to make a large barrel, put his daughter and the fool in it, tar the barrel and put it into the sea.
A fool wakes up in a barrel. The king's daughter tells him what happened and asks him to free himself and her from the barrel. The fool says the magic words, and the sea throws the barrel ashore. She's falling apart.
Emelya and the princess find themselves on a beautiful island. According to Emelin's desire, a huge palace and a crystal bridge to the royal palace appear. Then Emelya himself becomes smart and handsome.
Emelya invites the king to visit her. He arrives and 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 Svyala Andronovich had three sons: Dmitry, Vasily and Ivan. Every night the firebird flies into the royal garden and pecks at the golden apples on the king’s favorite apple tree. Tsar Vyslav promises to make the one of his sons who catches the firebird heir to the kingdom. First, Dmitry Tsarevich goes into the garden to guard her, but falls asleep at his post. The same thing happens to Vasily the Tsarevich. And Ivan Tsarevich lies in wait for the firebird, grabs it, but she breaks away, 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 ones. Ivan Tsarevich arrives at a post 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 and not touch the cage. But the prince takes the cage, there is a knock and thunder, the guards catch him and lead him to the king. King Dolmat agrees to forgive the prince and give him the 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 listen to him. Again, Tsarevich Ivan 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 and rushes her and Ivan Tsarevich to Tsar Afron. But the prince feels sorry for giving the princess to Afron. The wolf takes the form of Helen, and King Afron happily gives the prince the horse for the imaginary princess.
And the wolf runs away from Tsar Afron and catches up with Ivan Tsarevich.
After this, 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 takes its form and runs to Ivan Tsarevich. The wolf takes Ivan Tsarevich to the place where he tore his horse apart and says goodbye to him. The prince and the queen continue on their way. They stop to rest and fall asleep. Dmitry Tsarevich and Vasily Tsarevich find them sleeping, kill their brother, take the horse and the firebird. The princess is ordered to remain silent about everything on pain of death and is taken with them. Dmitry Tsarevich is going to marry her.
And the gray wolf finds the chopped body of Ivan Tsarevich. He waits for the crows to appear 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 and then 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. When Elena the Beautiful sees him, she decides to tell the whole truth. And then the king puts his eldest sons in prison, and Ivan Tsarevich marries Helen 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 brother, Ivan the Fool, to spend the night in his place. Ivan agrees. At midnight, the father emerges from the grave. He calls the heroic horse Sivka-burka and orders him to serve his son. The middle brother does the same as the elder. Again Ivan spends the night at the grave, and at midnight the same thing happens. On the third night, when it’s Ivan’s turn, everything repeats itself.
The king calls out: whoever tears off the portrait of the princess, painted on his fly (that is, on a towel), from a high house, the princess will marry him. The older and middle brothers go to see 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 for Sivka-burka, climbs into one ear of the horse, comes out into the other and becomes a fine fellow. He goes for the portrait.
The horse gallops high, but the portrait is only three logs short. The brothers see this. Returning home, they tell their wives about the daring fellow, but do not know that it is their brother. The next day the same thing happens - Ivan again misses a little. For the third time he tears down the portrait.
The king summons people of all classes to a feast. Ivan the Fool also comes and sits down at the stove. The princess treats the guests and looks: who will wipe his fly with the portrait? But she does not see Ivan. The feast goes the next day, but the princess again does not find her betrothed. The third time she discovers Ivan the Fool with a portrait behind the stove and happily takes him to his father. Ivan's brothers are amazed.
They are having a wedding. Ivan, having dressed up and cleaned himself up, becomes a fine fellow: “It’s not Ivan the fool, but Ivan the Tsar’s son-in-law.”
Magic ring
An old hunter lives with his old woman and his son Martynka. Dying, he leaves his wife and son two hundred rubles. Martyn takes a hundred rubles and goes to the city to buy bread. But instead, he buys the dog Zhurka from the butchers, which they want to kill. It takes the 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.
Martyn's mother kicks him out of the house, and he hires himself out as a farm laborer for the priest. Three years later, the priest offers him a choice of a bag of silver and a bag of sand. The martynka chooses sand, takes it and goes to look for another place. He comes to a forest clearing in which a fire is burning, and in the fire is a girl. Martin covers the fire with sand. The girl turns into a snake and takes Martyn to the underground kingdom 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 woo the beautiful princess for him. The mother does so, but the king, in response to this matchmaking, 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 marry his daughter to Martyn. 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 Martynka in poverty, in the same hut. Having learned about the disappearance of his daughter, the king orders Martynka to be imprisoned in a stone pillar and starves him to death.
The cat Vaska and the dog Zhurka run to the post and look through the window. They promise to help the owner. The cat and the 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 strangle the mice until the mouse king asks for mercy. Vaska and Zhurka demand a magic ring. One mouse volunteers to get it. He sneaks into the princess’s bedroom, and she, even when sleeping, keeps the ring in her mouth. The mouse tickles her nose with its tail, she sneezes and loses the ring. And then the mouse brings the ring to Zhurka and Vaska.
The dog and the cat are walking back. Vaska holds the ring in his teeth. When they cross the sea, Vaska is hit 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 cancer king begs for mercy; the crayfish push a beluga fish onto the shore, which swallowed the ring.
Vaska is the first to grab the ring and runs away from Zhurka to take all the credit for himself. The dog catches up with him, but the cat climbs a tree. Zhurka watches Vaska for three days, but then they make up.
The cat and dog run to the stone pillar and give the ring to the owner. Martynka regains the palace, the crystal bridge and the cathedral. He also brings back his unfaithful wife. The king orders her execution. “And Martynka still lives, chews bread.”
Horns
The old man gives his son, whose name is Monkey, to become a soldier. Monkey's teaching is not given, and he is beaten with rods. And so 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 wallet from which the money does not decrease, even if you pour out a mountain of gold.
The dream comes true. With cards and a wallet in his pocket, Monkey comes to the tavern and starts a fight with the 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 gives all his winnings back to them. The generals tell their king about the Monkey. The King comes to Monkey and also plays cards with him. The monkey, having won, gives his winnings back to the king.
The king makes Monkey the chief minister and builds a three-story house for him. The monkey rules the kingdom for three years in the absence of the king 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 during the meal Nastasya the Princess brings him a glass of “sleep potion.” Then he takes the cards and wallet from the sleeping Monkey and orders him to be thrown into a dung pit. Waking up, Monkey climbs out of the hole, puts on his old soldier's dress and leaves the kingdom. On the way, he meets an apple tree, eats the apple, and grows horns. 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 and fat. Seeing this, the princess also wants apples. But they do not benefit her: Nastasya the Princess grows horns. And 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 blames herself for deceiving the minister and gives back the cards and wallet. Then the Monkey treats her to 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 planning to marry, but he only knows that the princess to whom he is wooing has already ruined many suitors. Poor man Ivan the Naked comes to the prince and promises to arrange the matter.
The Tsarevich and Ivan Naked go to the princess. She offers the groom tests: shoot from a heroic gun, a bow, ride a heroic horse. All this is done by a servant instead of the prince. When Ivan the Naked shot an arrow, it hit the hero Mark Begun and knocked off both his hands.
The princess agrees to get married. 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 at all. She is plotting revenge. The prince and his wife are going home. When Ivan the 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 pigs.
Ivan the Naked is found by Marko Begun. The legless and armless heroes live together in the forest. They steal one of the priests, and she helps them with the housework. A snake flies to the priest, which is why she withers and loses weight. The heroes catch the snake and force it to show the lake where there is living water. From bathing in this water, warriors grow arms and legs. Marco Begun returns the share to his father and remains to live with this priest.
Ivan Naked goes to look for the prince and finds him grazing pigs. The Tsarevich exchanges clothes with Ivan. He rides a horse, and Ivan drives 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. From then on, she begins to obey her husband. And Ivan the Naked serves with them.
The Sea King and Vasilisa the Wise
The tsar travels through foreign lands, and meanwhile 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 something that he “doesn’t know at home.” The king agrees. Only upon arriving 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 supposedly lost. The prince meets an old woman who explains to him that he has been given to the king of the sea. The old woman advises Ivan Tsarevich to wait for thirteen doves - beautiful maidens - to appear on the shore and steal the shirt from the last, thirteenth. The prince listens to advice. The pigeons fly in, turn into girls and bathe. Then they fly away, leaving only the youngest, 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 commands 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 in one night. At night, Vasilisa the Wise orders the ants to select grain from the stacks. Then the king orders the prince to build a church from pure wax overnight. Vasilisa commands the bees to do this too. 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 Rus'. Vasilisa spits in three corners, locks her tower and runs away with her husband to Rus'. Envoys from the sea king come to call the young people to the palace. The droolers from the three corners tell them that it’s too early. In the end, the messengers break down the door, and the mansion is empty.
The sea king sets up the pursuit. Vasilisa, hearing the chase, turns into a lamb, and turns her husband into a shepherd. The messengers 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 returns. The sea king himself sets off in pursuit. 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 the drake and the duck because they dive.
Young people come to the kingdom of Ivan Tsarevich. The prince wants to report to his father and 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 at a malt mill. She makes two doves from the dough, which fly to the prince’s palace and hit the windows. The prince, seeing them, remembers Vasilisa, finds her, brings her to her father and mother, and everyone lives together.
Finist's Feather - falcon's clear
The old man has three daughters. The father is going to the city, the eldest and middle daughter ask to buy them fabrics for a dress, and the youngest - Finist's feather - the clear falcon. Having returned, the father gives his eldest daughters some new clothes, but he could not find the feather. The next time, the older sisters each receive a scarf, but the promised feather for the younger sister is again missing. For the third time, the old man finally buys a feather for a thousand rubles.
In the youngest daughter’s room, the feather turns into the prince Finista The prince and the girl are having a conversation. The sisters hear voices. Then the prince turns into a falcon, and the girl lets him fly. The older sisters stick knives and needles into the window frame. Returning, Finist wounds his wings on the knives and flies away, telling the girl to look for him in the distant kingdom. She hears it through her sleep.
The girl stocks up with three pairs of iron shoes, three cast-iron staves, three stone potions and goes to look for Finist. On the way, she spends the night with three old women. One gives her a golden spindle, another a silver dish with a golden egg, the third a golden hoop with a needle.
The bread has already been devoured, the staffs have been broken, the shoes have been trampled. The girl finds out that Finist in such and such a city married the daughter of the malt milk, and is hired by the malt mill as a worker. He gives the old women's gifts of malt to his daughter in exchange for the right to stay with Finist for three nights.
The wife mixes Finisga 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 tears wake up Finist. The prince and the girl are running away from the malt.
Finist turns into a feather again, and the girl comes home with him. She says she was on a pilgrimage. The father and eldest daughters leave for matins. The youngest stays at home and, after waiting a little, goes to church with Tsarevich Finist, in a golden carriage and precious attire. In church, the relatives do not recognize the girl, and she does not open up to them. The next day the same thing happens. On the third day, the father guesses everything, forces his daughter to confess, and the red maiden marries Prince Finist.
Tricky Science
Grandfather and woman have a son. The old man wants to send 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 a tricky science for three years. But he sets a condition: if the old man does not recognize his son after three years, he will remain with the teacher forever.
The day before the appointed time, the son flies to his father like a small bird and says that the teacher has eleven more students, whom the parents did not recognize, and they remained with the owner forever.
The son teaches his father how he can be recognized.
The owner (and he turned out to be a sorcerer) turns his students into pigeons, stallions, and good fellows, but in all forms the father recognizes his son. Father and son go home.
On the way they meet a 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 and tells his father to sell him at the market, but without a cage. The father does just that. The sorcerer teacher buys a bird, and it 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 the bridle. The sorcerer brings the horse home and ties it. The sorcerer's daughter, out of pity, wants to lengthen the reins, and the horse runs away. The sorcerer is chasing him with a gray wolf. The young man 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 scatters into grains, and the sorcerer in the guise of a rooster pecks at the grain. One grain turns into a hawk, which kills the rooster.
Sister Alyonushka, brother Ivanushka
The king and queen die; their children Alyonushka and Ivanushka go traveling.
Children see a herd of cows near a pond. The sister persuades her brother not to drink from this pond, so as not to become a calf. They see a herd of horses, a herd of pigs, and a herd of goats by the water. Alyonushka warns her brother everywhere. But in the end, he disobeys his sister, drinks and becomes a little goat.
Alyonushka ties him by the belt and takes him with her. They enter the royal garden. The Tsar asks Alyonushka who she is. Soon he will marry her.
Alyonushka, who has become a queen, is damaged by an evil witch. She herself undertakes to treat the queen: she orders her to go to the sea and drink water there. A witch drowns Alyonushka by the sea. The little goat, seeing this, cries. And the sorceress takes the form of Queen Alyonushka.
The imaginary queen offends Ivanushka. She begs the king to order the slaughter of the little goat. The king, albeit reluctantly, agrees. The little goat asks permission to go to the sea. There he asks his sister to swim out, but she replies from under the water that she cannot. The little goat returns, but then asks to go to the sea again and again. The king, surprised, secretly follows him. There he hears a conversation between Alyonushka and Ivanushka. Alyonushka tries to swim out, and the king pulls her ashore. The little goat tells about what happened, and the king orders the execution of the sorceress.
Princess Frog
The king has three sons. The youngest is called Ivan Tsarevich. The king orders them to shoot arrows in different directions. Each of them must woo the girl in whose yard his arrow will fall. The eldest son's arrow falls on the boyar's courtyard, the middle son's on the merchant's, and Ivan Tsarevich's arrow falls into the swamp, and is picked up by a frog.
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 consoles him. At night she turns into Vasilisa the Wise and orders her nannies to bake bread. The next morning the 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 nannies. The next morning a wonderful carpet is ready.
The king orders his sons to come to him for inspection 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 in the water. The wives of other princes try to imitate her, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Ivan Tsarevich finds the frog skin discarded by his wife and burns it. Having learned about this, Vasilisa grieves, turns into a white swan and flies out the window, ordering the prince to look for her 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 as a frog for three years - this was her punishment from her father. The old man gives the prince a ball,
01 Arys – field collection “Russian Folk Tales” Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasyev, brief description of the tale:
A girl lived with an old father, he married an evil witch. The witch disliked her stepdaughter. The girl (stepdaughter) got married and gave birth to a child. The witch turned her stepdaughter into Arys-Pole - a wonderful creature, a mysterious forest animal, she drove her into the forest, and put her own daughter in her place. The stepdaughter's own little child (Arys-polya) was carried into the forest to be fed by his mother: Arys-polya. The child's father found out about this, waited a moment and burned the skin of Arys-Pole, she became the same girl and told her husband about everything. For this, the witch and her daughter were punished.
02 Tale about black grouse processed by A.N. Tolstoy:
A fairy tale about how a black grouse wanted to build a house, but decided that he could spend the night without a house.
03 Russian folk tale bean seed processed by A.N. Tolstoy, plot:
The cockerel choked on a bean seed, and the chicken ran for water. To get water from the river and save the cockerel, she had to run to the woodcutters, the Kalashniks (people baking rolls), the combers (people making hair combs), the girl and the sticky.
04 Wolf and goat a fairy tale from the collection of Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasyev “Russian children's fairy tales”.
A goat lives in the forest with her kids - little goats in a hut, this goat goes to work, the kids are left alone. The Biryuk wolf decided to eat the kids, as a result, only one kid remained alive. Still, the mother goat managed to remove the goats that had been eaten from the wolf’s belly.
A song from a fairy tale known to all children: “Little goats, little kids, Get back, get away. Your mother came, brought milk; Milk runs along the scoop, From the scoop to the hoof, From the hoof to the damp ground.”
05 Crow and cancer fairy tale from the collection of Afanasyev A.N. “Russian children's fairy tales”, contents:
A crow caught a cancer, the cancer flattered her, praised her, praised her. The crow was stupid - it cawed and let go of the crayfish.
An old and instructive phrase said by a cancer to a crow: “Even though they are good people, they are no match for you. It seems to me that there is no one in the world more intelligent than you.”
06 Fairy tale Swan geese processed by A.N. Tolstoy, summary:
The parents left the girl to look after her younger brother and went to work. She did not look after her brother, and the geese and swans carried him away to Baba Yaga. The girl went to rescue her brother, came to Baba Yaga, and began to work for her. In the hut there lived a mouse on a chicken leg, she advised the girl to quickly pick up her brother and go home - otherwise Baba Yaga would eat them. The girl and her brother ran away towards the house, on the way they were helped to hide from the pursuit of swan geese: a stove, an apple tree and a milk river, the banks of jelly.
In addition to the fairy tale described, on the page Geese-Swans, you can read and compare the text of the fairy tale "Geese-Swans" in Tolstoy's adaptation with a fairy tale from Afanasyev's collection "Russian Folk Tales", which has the same name and a correspondingly similar plot.
Famous fairy-tale phrases and expressions: “Eat my rye pie.”, “Eat my simple jelly.”, “Eat my forest apple.”
07 Daughter and stepdaughter a fairy tale from the collection of Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasyev “Russian children's fairy tales”.
There lived a girl, her father, and her stepmother with her daughter Natasha. The girl, her stepdaughter, was taken to the forest so that she could work there and not be distracted. The girl made friends with the mouse. At night a bear came and forced the girl to play blind man's buff. The mouse helped the girl win a herd of horses and a cart of silver from the bear. The stepmother was jealous of her stepdaughter's wealth, and sent her daughter also to the forest; she never saw her daughter Natasha alive again, since Natasha did not make friends with the mouse and lost her life to the bear in blind man's buff.
Famous phrases and expressions: “They will give the old man’s daughter in marriage, and they will bring the woman’s bones in the back of the car.”, “Natasha! Natasha! Is your porridge sweet? Give me at least a spoon!”, “Maiden, maiden! Give me a spoonful of porridge!”
08 Duma retold by M.L. Mikhailova:
The fox and the crane fell into a hole dug by a hunter. The fox is running around fussing, doesn’t know what to do, the crane is calm - he is eating food. When the man-hunter came, the crane pretended to be dead, outwitted the man, and escaped death. The fox had to answer to the hunter for two - both for herself and for the crane.
The fairy tale has the following well-known phrases: “I have a thousand, a thousand, a thousand thoughts!”, “And I had one thought!”
09 Crane and heron, collection “Russian children's fairy tales”, A.N. Afanasyeva, plot description:
A crane and a heron live in a swamp; they take turns going to each other to woo each other: they invite each other to get married and get married.
The fairy tale has the following well-known phrase: “That’s how they go to this day to woo each other, but never get married.”
10 Hares and frogs retold the Russian fairy tale by Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, content:
11 Hare - boasting
Once upon a time there lived a boasting hare in the forest; he loved to show off to other animals, hares. The crow found out about this and punished the hare for bragging. After some time, this hare saved the crow from the dogs. For which he received encouragement from the crow.
12 Animals in the pit fairy tale adapted by A.N. Tolstoy:
The chicken got scared of the hail and ran, starting to scare and terrify everyone. As a result, six animals fell into the pit: a chicken, a cockerel, a hare, a fox, a wolf, and a bear. The fox deceived and ate them all in turn. A tit bird saved a fox from death in a pit.
Famous fairy tale phrases: “The fox-olissava has a good name.”, “What, little fox, are you enjoying? - I take out my intestines and eat them.”
13 Winter hut of animals from the collection “Russian Children's Fairy Tales” by A.N. Afanasyev, brief description and characters:
Several animals went, namely a bull, a ram, a pig, a goose, and a rooster, to look for winter and summer. These animals walked and searched for summer from winter. One bull built himself a hut. In the cold winter, a ram, a pig, a goose and a rooster forced the bull to let them all into his hut. The fox persuaded the wolf and the bear to attack the house and eat the animals. As a result, the bear was beaten, and the fox and wolf simply ran away.
14 Brief description of a Russian fairy tale: How the fox learned to fly processed by A.N. Tolstoy:
The crane teaches the fox to fly, sits on itself, rises into the sky and drops it from a bird's eye view to the ground.
15 Fairy tale Goat - dereza processing by A.N. Tolstoy, summary:
The goat was very unhappy with everything, it got to the point that the old man beat her and decided to kill the goat with a knife, but she was able to run away into the forest. In the forest, the goat took the hut from the bunny and began to live in it. The rooster helped the hare deal with the goat.
16 Fairy Tale Kolobok processed by A.N. Tolstoy, briefly the plot:
The old woman baked a bun for the old man, and the bun ran away from them. He also ran away from animals: a hare, a wolf, a bear. The bun couldn't escape from the fox.
The famous old kolobok song contains the words: “I am a kolobok, a kolobok,” “I left my grandfather,” etc.
17 Russian folk tale Cat and fox processed by A.N. Tolstoy, description:
The man threw the cat out of the house and threw it into the forest. The cat found a home in the forest, met the fox, said his name: Kotofey Ivanovich and said that from now on he is the governor of these places. The fox and the cat got married, the fox began to feed and please him. She told the wolf and the bear about her cat husband, and they decided to see him. As a result, the bear and the wolf were physically punished, they began to be afraid and feed the cat and the fox.
Familiar phrases of the work: “How many years have I lived in the forest, I have never seen such an animal!”, “Small, but voracious!”
18 Cat - gray forehead, goat and ram, the tale was processed by Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy, description:
There lived a cat, a goat and a ram. The cat played a prank and people beat him for it. The cat felt offended, he lied to the ram and the goat that they would also be beaten, and persuaded them to run away. At night they met a bear, the four of them were attacked by eight wolves. While the bear was fighting with the wolves, the cat, ram and goat ran into the forest and climbed a tree. Then the cat managed to deceive and scare the wolves, causing them to flee.
19 Kochetok and chicken, the fairy tale was processed by A.N. Tolstoy:
The hen and the cockerel were playing and playing, and he accidentally knocked out her eye with a nut. The boyars began to figure out who was to blame: the cochet, the hazel tree (tree), goats, shepherds, the housewife, the pig, and in the end the culprit turned out to be a hungry wolf who had eaten the pig.
20 Kuzma Skorobogaty
The peasant Kuzma Skorobogaty lives in the forest, he is very poor. He caught a fox, the fox persuaded her to let her go and feed her, for this she helps him. On his behalf, by deception she brought to the king forty wolves, forty black bears, forty martens and sables. She betrothed the Tsar's daughter to Kuzma Skorobogaty. By cunning she allowed Kuzma Skorobogaty to take possession of all the property of the Serpent Gorynych and kill him. Kuzma Skorobogaty and his wife, the princess, feed the fox every day as a sign of gratitude.
Also (in the same place) the text of a similar fairy tale is posted, which served as a prototype for the one described above. It's called Kozma Skorobogaty, from Afanasyev's collection. This Russian fairy tale has a slightly different plot but the same meaning.
21 Lion, pike and man processed by A.N. Tolstoy , description:
The pike told the lion that he was afraid of the man, the lion decided to eat the man, and went to look for him. The lion was deceived by a boy and an old man, the soldier wounded the lion in the mouth with a gun and cut off his ear. The lion agreed with the pike that man is cunning and should be feared.
22 Fairy tale Fox and blackbird processed by A.N. Tolstoy, summary of the tale:
The blackbird lives in a tree, raising its little chicks. The fox uses the thrush's parental feelings, i.e. frightens him by cutting down the tree with his tail and eating his children. The blackbird indulges the fox's whims in every possible way, in the end he sets the dogs on her, the fox ran away from them, and decided to take revenge on her tail for preventing her from escaping the chase. She gave her tail to be torn to pieces by the dogs.
23 Fox and crane processed by A.N. Tolstoy.
The fox and the crane visited each other to eat. One day the fox left the crane hungry - he regretted the food, and later the crane took revenge on the fox in the same way.
24 Fairy Tale Fox and Hare processed by A.N. Tolstoy:
The fox has an ice hut, the hare has a bast hut. In the spring, the fox cunningly drove the bunny out of his home. They tried to help the hare to no avail: a dog, a bear, a bull. The rooster helped the hare: he killed the fox, and the two of them (rooster and hare) began to live in a bast hut.
25 Fox and goat, retelling by K.D. Ushinsky:
The fox accidentally fell into the well, a goat happened to be passing nearby, the fox lured him to jump into the well, the goat jumped and the fox used it to get out.
26 Fox and jug Russian folk tale retold by K.D. Ushinsky:
The fox stole a jug of milk, stuck her head into it, drank the milk, but could not remove the jug. She drowned the jug in the river along with her head.
27 Fox and cancer processed by Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy:
28 Fox and black grouse in the retelling of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, plot:
The fox wants to lure the black grouse from the tree to the ground. He tries to deceive him, as a result the black grouse uses the same fox trick, only against the fox itself.
Familiar phrases from a fairy tale: “Today a decree has been declared so that there will be peace throughout the whole earth. Nowadays animals don’t touch each other.”, “Maybe they didn’t hear the decree.”
29 Tale: Lisa - confessor from the collection of A.N. Afanasyev “Russian folk tales”:
The fox got angry with the rooster. I waylaid him in the forest, he flew up a tree and didn’t get down. The fox lures him by promising to remove all the rooster’s sins; he was flattered and went down to the fox. As a result, he also outwitted the fox and thanks to this he remained alive.
30 Russian folk tale: Fox - sister and wolf from the collection of A.N. Afanasyev "Russian children's fairy tales":
The fox stole a fish from her grandfather, after which she deceived the hungry wolf and sent him to catch fish with his tail. It was winter, the wolf's tail froze in an ice hole, the women who saw the wolf beat him, he tore off his own tail. After all this, the fox once again used the wolf - this time as a means of transportation.
Famous phrases of the fairy tale: “Catch, little fish, both small and great!”, “Freeze, freeze, wolf’s tail!”, “The beaten one is lucky!”
31 Fairy Tale Tom Thumb processed by Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy, brief description:
There lived a lonely old man and an old woman. The old woman accidentally cut off her finger and wrapped it in a rag. The finger became a little boy. The little boy began to help his father, giving orders into the horse’s ear. The father, by conspiracy, sold the boy for a thousand rubles to the master, he ran away from the master and was eaten by a wolf. A boy about the size of a finger lived in the wolf’s belly and prevented him from hunting, screaming. The wolf had to release the little boy from his belly and take him home to the old man and the old woman. There the wolf was caught and dealt with.
32 Russian fairy tale Masha and the Bear, retelling by M.A. Bulatov, summary:
Grandfather and grandmother's granddaughter Mashenka got lost in the forest and disappeared. Masha found a hut in the forest and lived in it for a long time with a bear. Mashenka missed her grandparents, baked pies, outwitted the bear, and with his help returned home safe and sound.
Famous phrase (rhyme, song) by Masha: “I’ll sit on a stump, I’ll eat the pie!”, “Don’t sit on the stump, Don’t eat the pie!”
33 Bear and fox processed by Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy.
The fox decided to eat the bear's honey. She cunningly planned everything, started living at the bear’s house, ate all his honey, then accused the bear of having eaten the honey and proved it to the bear himself.
34 Bear and dog, the tale was processed by A.N. Tolstoy, content:
The owners threw the old dog (dog) into the forest. A dog met a bear in the forest. The bear helped the dog return to its home by stealing the child. Then the bear began to visit the dog, and one day people noticed him and beat him.
35 Bear lime leg processed by A.N. Tolstoy, description:
The bear stole a man's turnip, and the man cut off the bear's paw for this. The bear made himself a fake paw and went to the old man and old woman to take revenge. He fell underground and was killed there.
36 Russian fairy tale: Morozko processed by A.N. Tolstoy, description:
The girl lived with her father, stepmother and her daughter. The stepmother persuaded the old man to take his stepdaughter to the forest in winter to a cold death. The girl was left alone in the forest in winter. Morozko froze her, froze her, then took pity on her, warmed her up, and gave her valuable gifts. The girl returned home rich in the morning. The stepmother sent her own daughter into the forest for the night, her daughter did not survive.
Famous phrases and expressions: “Are you warm, maiden? Are you warm, red one? Are you warm, honey?”, “Warm, Morozushko, warm, father.”, “The grooms will take the old man’s daughter, and the old woman’s daughter will carry bones in a bag.” "
37 Man and bear processed the fairy tale by A.N. Tolstoy.
A man deceives a bear and uses his labor to plant turnips. The next year he deceives the bear again, but the bear is already helping the man sow rye.
38 No goat with nuts processed by Tolstoy Alexey Nikolaevich:
The goat left the goat, the goat, in order to return it, began to ask for help from the wolf, the bear, people, a club, an ax, a stone, fire, water. The wind helped the goat return the goat.
39 Sheep, fox and wolf processing by A.N. Tolstoy, brief description of the tale:
A man's sheep ran away and became friends with a fox. The wolf wanted to take the sheepskin coat off the sheep, but the fox protected the sheep and, with cunning, forced the wolf to kiss the trap.
40 Cockerel - golden comb processed by A.N. Tolstoy, fairy tale plot:
Living together: a cat, a thrush and a cockerel - a golden comb. The cat and the blackbird go to work, the cockerel sits at home. The cockerel wants to steal the fox with cunning. The cockerel does not listen to the advice of the cat and the blackbird, and therefore the fox constantly kidnaps him, and she is beaten for this.
A famous song from a fairy tale: “Cockerel, cockerel, Golden comb, Butter head, Silk beard, Look out the window, I’ll give you a pea.”
41 Russian folk tale Cockerel - golden comb and millstones from the collection of A.N. Afanasyev “Russian children's fairy tales”, description:
There lived a poor old man and an old woman who dropped an acorn underground. The oak tree grew and grew, and the old man cut a hole in the roof so as not to have to go into the forest for acorns. Once an old man climbed an oak tree, reached the sky, and saw there a cockerel - a golden comb and a millstone. The old man took them with him to earth. The boyar stole the millstones from the old man and the old woman, the kochetok (cockerel) - the golden comb escaped drowning in the well and roasting in the oven, disgraced the boyar, took the millstones, brought them back to the old woman and the old man.
Famous phrases and expressions of the cockerel in the fairy tale: “Spout, spout, drink water! Mouth, mouth, drink water...”, “Spout, spout, pour water! Mouth, mouth, pour water...”
42 Bubble, straw and bast shoe, the fairy tale was processed by Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy, briefly about the actions taking place in the fairy tale:
The straw, the bubble and the bast shoe wanted to cross the river. We didn't move.
43 Russian folk tale turnip presented in processing by A.N. Tolstoy, description:
A large turnip is pulled out of the ground by a grandfather, grandmother, granddaughter, a dog - Bug, a cat, and a mouse helps them.
44 Sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka edited by Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy:
Alyonushka and Ivanushka were left without parents. Alyonushka took her brother with her to work; on the way, Ivanushka became thirsty. Alyonushka persuaded him, he did not listen to his sister, drank water from the hoof - he turned into a little goat. A merchant took Alyonushka as his wife. The witch lured and drowned Alyonushka in the river, and she herself turned into her. The little goat goes to the river and cries for his sister Alyonushka. The witch decides to kill him. The little goat’s last wish is to say goodbye to Alyonushka by the river; the merchant finds out about this. Alyonushka is taken out of the water and revived, the little goat with joy turns back into Ivanushka - a man, but the witch is cruelly punished.
47 Mouse tower from the collection of Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasyev “Russian children's fairy tales”:
Animals settled in the horse’s frame: a mouse-norushka, a frog-croak, a hare (on the mountain, a dodger), a fox (jumping everywhere), a wolf (grabbing from behind the bushes). A bear came (you are being crushed!) and crushed everyone.
48 Tereshechka fairy tale adapted by A.N. Tolstoy , description:
The old man and the old woman lovingly made a boy out of a block - Tereshechka. Tereshechka caught fish, mother brought him food. The evil witch deceived Tereshechka and stole it. I gave it to my daughter Alyonka to fry it in the oven. Tereshechka cheated and fried Alyonka, the witch ate her. He hid from the witch on a tall oak tree, a pinched gosling helped him avoid death, and carried Tereshechka home.
Tereshechka's sad song: “My geese, little swans! Take me on your wings, Carry me to my father, to my mother!”
49 Khavroshechka was processed by A.N. Tolstoy, contents:
Little orphan Khavroshechka lives with her adoptive parents and works for them. She has one friend - a cow, the girl tells her her troubles. The little cow taught her to get into one of her ears and get out of the other - all the things Khavroshechka was punished for immediately became done. Khavroshechka was suspected of dishonest work, and her stepmother’s own daughters began to follow her: One-Eyed, Two-Eyed, Three-Eyed. Three-Eyes found out about the cow's help and told her mother, the mother forced her husband to slaughter the cow. Khavroshka did not eat the meat of the cow, but buried the bones in the ground and looked after them. An apple tree with plump apples grew from the seeds. A rich man was driving past, a young man asked for apples, only Khavroshechka managed to pick an apple, she married him.
The famous words of Khavroshechka and the little cow: “Sleep, little eye, sleep, other one!”, “Little red maiden, get into one ear of mine and get out of the other - everything will work out.”
50 Sly goat from the collection of V.N. Serebrennikov, the Russian fairy tale was processed by V.P. Anikin.
An old man and an old woman lived with a goat. He went for a walk in the forest, met a wolf, showed his wits twice and remained alive.