Once upon a time there was a prince, he wanted to marry a princess, but only a real princess. So he traveled all over the world, looking for one, but everywhere there was something wrong; There were plenty of princesses, but whether they were real, he could not fully recognize, there was always something wrong with them. So he returned home and was very sad: he really wanted a real princess.
One evening a terrible storm broke out; Lightning flashed, thunder roared, rain poured down like buckets, what a horror! And suddenly there was a knock on the city gates, and the old king went to open it.
The princess stood at the gate. My God, who did she look like in the rain and bad weather! The water flowed from her hair and dress, flowed straight into the toes of her shoes and flowed out of her heels, and she said that she was a real princess.
“Well, we’ll find out!” - thought the old queen, but didn’t say anything, but went to the bedchamber, took off all the mattresses and pillows from the bed and put a pea on the boards, and then took twenty mattresses and put them on the pea, and on the mattresses another twenty feather beds made of eider down.
It was on this bed that the princess lay down for the night.
In the morning they asked her how she slept.
Oh, terribly bad! - answered the princess. - I didn’t sleep a wink all night. God knows what was in my bed! I was lying on something hard and now I have bruises all over my body! This is just terrible!
Then everyone realized that this was a real princess. Of course, she felt a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds made of eiderdown! Only a real princess can be so tender.
The prince took her as his wife, because now he knew that he was marrying a real princess, and the pea ended up in the cabinet of curiosities, where it can be seen to this day, unless someone stole it.
Know that this is a true story!
Once upon a time there was a prince, he wanted to marry a princess, but only a real princess. So he traveled all over the world, looking for one, but everywhere there was something wrong; There were plenty of princesses, but whether they were real, he could not fully recognize, there was always something wrong with them. So he returned home and was very sad: he really wanted a real princess.
One evening a terrible storm broke out; Lightning flashed, thunder roared, rain poured down like buckets, what a horror! And suddenly there was a knock on the city gates, and the old king went to open it.
The princess stood at the gate. My God, who did she look like in the rain and bad weather! The water flowed from her hair and dress, flowed straight into the toes of her shoes and flowed out of her heels, and she said that she was a real princess.
“Well, we’ll find out!” - thought the old queen, but didn’t say anything, but went to the bedchamber, took off all the mattresses and pillows from the bed and put a pea on the boards, and then took twenty mattresses and put them on the pea, and on the mattresses another twenty feather beds made of eider down.
It was on this bed that the princess lay down for the night.
In the morning they asked her how she slept.
Oh, terribly bad! - answered the princess. - I didn’t sleep a wink all night. God knows what was in my bed! I was lying on something hard and now I have bruises all over my body! This is just terrible!
Then everyone realized that this was a real princess. Of course, she felt a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds made of eiderdown! Only a real princess can be so tender.
- Russian folk tales Russian folk tales The world of fairy tales is amazing. Is it possible to imagine our life without a fairy tale? A fairy tale is not just entertainment. She tells us about what is extremely important in life, teaches us to be kind and fair, to protect the weak, to resist evil, to despise cunning and flatterers. The fairy tale teaches us to be loyal, honest, and ridicules our vices: boasting, greed, hypocrisy, laziness. For centuries, fairy tales have been passed down orally. One person came up with a fairy tale, told it to another, that person added something of his own, retold it to a third, and so on. Each time the fairy tale became better and more interesting. It turns out that the fairy tale was invented not by one person, but by many different people, people, which is why they began to call it “folk”. Fairy tales arose in ancient times. They were stories of hunters, trappers and fishermen. In fairy tales, animals, trees and grass talk like people. And in a fairy tale, everything is possible. If you want to become young, eat rejuvenating apples. We need to revive the princess - first sprinkle her with dead and then with living water... The fairy tale teaches us to distinguish good from bad, good from evil, ingenuity from stupidity. The fairy tale teaches not to despair in difficult moments and to always overcome difficulties. The fairy tale teaches how important it is for every person to have friends. And the fact that if you don’t leave your friend in trouble, then he will help you too...
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- Tales of Valentin Kataev Tales of Valentin Kataev Writer Valentin Kataev lived a long and beautiful life. He left books, by reading which we can learn to live with taste, without missing out on the interesting things that surround us every day and every hour. There was a period in Kataev’s life, about 10 years, when he wrote wonderful fairy tales for children. The main characters of fairy tales are the family. They show love, friendship, belief in magic, miracles, relationships between parents and children, relationships between children and the people they meet along the way that help them grow up and learn something new. After all, Valentin Petrovich himself was left without a mother very early. Valentin Kataev is the author of the fairy tales: “The Pipe and the Jug” (1940), “The Seven-Flower Flower” (1940), “The Pearl” (1945), “The Stump” (1945), “The Dove” (1949).
- Tales of Wilhelm Hauff Tales of Wilhelm Hauff Wilhelm Hauff (11/29/1802 – 11/18/1827) was a German writer, best known as the author of fairy tales for children. Considered a representative of the Biedermeier artistic literary style. Wilhelm Hauff is not such a famous and popular world storyteller, but Hauff's fairy tales are a must-read for children. The author, with the subtlety and unobtrusiveness of a real psychologist, invested in his works a deep meaning that provokes thought. Gauff wrote his Märchen - fairy tales - for the children of Baron Hegel; they were first published in the "Almanac of Fairy Tales of January 1826 for the Sons and Daughters of the Noble Classes." There were such works by Gauff as “Calif the Stork”, “Little Muk”, and some others, which immediately gained popularity in German-speaking countries. Initially focusing on eastern folklore, he later begins to use European legends in fairy tales.
- Tales of Vladimir Odoevsky Tales of Vladimir Odoevsky Vladimir Odoevsky entered the history of Russian culture as a literary and music critic, prose writer, museum and library worker. He did a lot for Russian children's literature. During his lifetime, he published several books for children's reading: “A Town in a Snuffbox” (1834-1847), “Fairy Tales and Stories for Children of Grandfather Irenaeus” (1838-1840), “Collection of Children’s Songs of Grandfather Irineus” (1847), “Children’s Book for Sundays" (1849). When creating fairy tales for children, V. F. Odoevsky often turned to folklore subjects. And not only to the Russians. The most popular are two fairy tales by V. F. Odoevsky - “Moroz Ivanovich” and “Town in a Snuff Box”.
- Tales of Vsevolod Garshin Tales of Vsevolod Garshin Garshin V.M. - Russian writer, poet, critic. He gained fame after the publication of his first work, “4 Days.” The number of fairy tales written by Garshin is not at all large - only five. And almost all of them are included in the school curriculum. Every child knows the fairy tales “The Frog the Traveler”, “The Tale of the Toad and the Rose”, “The Thing That Never Happened”. All of Garshin's fairy tales are imbued with deep meaning, denoting facts without unnecessary metaphors and an all-consuming sadness that runs through each of his fairy tales, each story.
- Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) - Danish writer, storyteller, poet, playwright, essayist, author of world-famous fairy tales for children and adults. Reading Andersen's fairy tales is fascinating at any age, and they give both children and adults freedom to let their dreams and imagination fly. Each fairy tale by Hans Christian contains deep thoughts about the meaning of life, human morality, sin and virtues, often not noticeable at first glance. Andersen's most popular fairy tales: The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, The Nightingale, The Swineherd, Chamomile, Flint, Wild Swans, The Tin Soldier, The Princess and the Pea, The Ugly Duckling.
- Tales of Mikhail Plyatskovsky Tales of Mikhail Plyatskovsky Mikhail Spartakovich Plyatskovsky is a Soviet songwriter and playwright. Even in his student years, he began to compose songs - both poetry and melodies. The first professional song “March of the Cosmonauts” was written in 1961 with S. Zaslavsky. There is hardly a person who has never heard such lines: “it’s better to sing in chorus,” “friendship begins with a smile.” A tiny raccoon from a Soviet cartoon and the cat Leopold sing songs based on poems by the popular songwriter Mikhail Spartakovich Plyatskovsky. Plyatskovsky's fairy tales teach children rules and norms of behavior, model familiar situations and introduce them to the world. Some stories not only teach kindness, but also make fun of the bad character traits that children have.
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Everyone knows Andersen's fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea”. Once upon a time there lived a king and a queen. And they had an only son who planned to get married. The prince traveled all over the world, but never found a bride. Of course, he saw a lot of princesses, but how do you know which one is real? And he returned home with nothing and sunbathed. And suddenly one evening (and it was raining outside and lightning was flashing), there was a knock on the palace gate. A princess stood at the gate, asking to be let in. To check whether she really was a real princess (and all princesses, as we know, are terrible sissies), the queen placed a pea on bare boards, and then covered the pea with twenty mattresses, and also twenty feather beds made of eider down. The princess was put into this bed. In the morning, when the guest complained that she slept as if on cobblestones, and therefore her whole body was bruised, the king and queen realized that she was indeed a real princess. And the prince fell in love with her.
That's the whole fairy tale. Yes, everyone knows her. But not everyone may know that this fairy tale, which seems to be Andersen’s own invention, is in fact a free adaptation of a Danish folk tale. And Andersen heard it, like the famous “Flint,” as a child, “at gatherings and while cleaning hops.”
“The Princess and the Pea” (together with the fairy tale “Flint” and two others) were included in the first issue of Andersen’s “Fairy Tales for Children,” published in 1835. However, Andersen was not immediately recognized as a storyteller. Until then, he wrote only novels and plays. And seeing his name on “Fairy Tales for Children,” critics, who, unlike ordinary readers, express their opinions in newspapers and magazines, began to say that Andersen “fell into childishness.”
Not all of them liked “The Princess and the Pea.” One critic wrote that the fairy tale, you see, is “devoid of salt.” And he considered it not only “indelicate, but even downright impermissible for the author to instill in children... as if noble people were always so terribly sensitive.” This critic went so far as to advise Andersen that he “should no longer waste time writing fairy tales for children.”
“Meanwhile,” Andersen said, recalling this unkind review, “I could not overcome my desire to continue writing them.”
The time has come, and Andersen, the author of plays and novels, himself realized that fairy tales, as he said, “are the main type of my creativity.” Fairy tales glorified his name not only in his native Denmark, but throughout the world. And wherever Andersen went (and he traveled a lot), he everywhere felt his fame as a storyteller.
The prediction of a nameless fortune teller, which his mother heard when she sent her fourteen-year-old son from little Odense to big Copenhagen, came true. Andersen recalled that his mother resisted his desire to leave for a long time. Finally, yielding to his plea, “she sent for the healer and made her tell fortunes...on cards and coffee grounds.”
“Your son will be a great man! - said the old woman. “The day will come when his hometown of Odense will light up illuminations in his honor.”
Almost fifty years later, or rather, on December 6, 1869, Andersen arrived in Odense, where he was born and where he was now celebrated as a great man. The city was in festive decorations. The orchestras thundered. People sang his songs. “I was infinitely happy...” Andersen recalled. “Everywhere I met friendly glances, everyone wanted to say a kind word to me and shake my hand.” And in the evening he read his fairy tale to the children. “The prediction of the old fortune teller, who said that illumination would be lit in Odense in honor of me, came true in the most beautiful form.”
During his life, Andersen composed more than one hundred and seventy fairy tales and fairy tales, and the fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea” sparkles among them like a bright star.
The prince's dream of a real princess, her appearance in a storm, a bed made of the lightest eider down, the prince's flared love, and even a small ordinary pea - everything in this fairy tale breathes poetry, which is permeated with the subtlest irony. Remember the very end of the fairy tale? “And the pea was sent to the museum. It’s still there, unless someone took it!” In a word, as always with Andersen, the poetic and the ironic, the lofty and the funny merged, and thanks to this the fairy tale became interesting to all ages.
In some translations into Russian, the fairy tale was called “The Real Princess” - with this name the translators emphasized the essence of this fairy-tale story.
And although “The Princess and the Pea” is perhaps Andersen’s shortest fairy tale and can all fit on one book page, I wanted to develop it into a play for a children’s theater, because this fairy tale has a quite perceptible dramatic plot. That is, to make a play that would preserve the entire structure and mood of Andersen’s fairy tale. Andersen would say about it this way: “Someone else’s plot entered... into my flesh and blood, I recreated it in myself and then only released it into the world.” All the characters from the fairy tale began to act in the play - king, queen, prince, princess - and new faces. So that they could not only talk, but also sing, the poetess Novella Matveeva composed the lyrics, and the music for them and for the entire performance was written by composer Mikhail Meerovich.
Amazing actors perform in this performance. Rostislav Plyatt plays the roles of the storyteller and the king, and Maria Babanova plays the queen. This is one of the last roles of Maria Ivanovna Babanova, and her very last role where she sang.
Vladimir Glotser
Once upon a time there was a prince, he wanted to marry a princess, but only a real princess. So he traveled all over the world, looking for one, but everywhere there was something wrong; There were plenty of princesses, but whether they were real, he could not fully recognize, there was always something wrong with them. So he returned home and was very sad: he really wanted a real princess.
One evening a terrible storm broke out; Lightning flashed, thunder roared, rain poured down like buckets, what a horror! And suddenly there was a knock on the city gates, and the old king went to open it.
The princess stood at the gate. My God, who did she look like in the rain and bad weather! The water flowed from her hair and dress, flowed straight into the toes of her shoes and flowed out of her heels, and she said that she was a real princess.
“Well, we’ll find out!” - thought the old queen, but didn’t say anything, but went to the bedchamber, took off all the mattresses and pillows from the bed and put a pea on the boards, and then took twenty mattresses and put them on the pea, and on the mattresses another twenty feather beds made of eider down.
It was on this bed that the princess lay down for the night.
In the morning they asked her how she slept.
Oh, terribly bad! - answered the princess. - I didn’t sleep a wink all night. God knows what was in my bed! I was lying on something hard and now I have bruises all over my body! This is just terrible!
Then everyone realized that this was a real princess. Of course, she felt a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds made of eiderdown! Only a real princess can be so tender.