Fairy tales to write off. Educational bedtime stories for children

is one of the oldest forms of storytelling, which in its simplest and game form tells children not only about the world around him, but also about manifestations of both the best and the ugliest. General statistics tell us that Russians folk tales children are only interested in school age, but it is these fairy tales that we carry in our hearts and let us pass them on to our children in a slightly modified form. After all, it is impossible to forget about Masha and the Bear, Ryaba the hen or the Gray Wolf; all these images help us learn and understand the reality around us. You can read Russian folk tales online and listen to audio tales for free on our website.

Fairy tale title Source Rating
Vasilisa the Beautiful Russian traditional 309621
Morozko Russian traditional 211422
Porridge from an ax Russian traditional 225677
Teremok Russian traditional 337634
Fox and Crane Russian traditional 184309
Sivka-Burka Russian traditional 166196
Crane and Heron Russian traditional 25305
Cat, rooster and fox Russian traditional 108813
Chicken Ryaba Russian traditional 273738
Fox and cancer Russian traditional 79578
Fox-sister and wolf Russian traditional 68442
Masha and the Bear Russian traditional 237050
The Sea King and Vasilisa the Wise Russian traditional 74383
Snow Maiden Russian traditional 47830
Three piglets Russian traditional 1550894
Baba Yaga Russian traditional 114856
Magic pipe Russian traditional 114506
Magic ring Russian traditional 134678
Grief Russian traditional 19214
Swan geese Russian traditional 65039
Daughter and stepdaughter Russian traditional 20698
Ivan Tsarevich and Gray wolf Russian traditional 59774
Treasure Russian traditional 43021
Kolobok Russian traditional 143040
Marya Morevna Russian traditional 33384
Wonderful miracle, wonderful miracle Russian traditional 37832
Two frosts Russian traditional 35047
Most expensive Russian traditional 29307
Wonderful shirt Russian traditional 34186
Frost and hare Russian traditional 34154
How the fox learned to fly Russian traditional 41845
Ivan the Fool Russian traditional 31599
Fox and jug Russian traditional 22784
bird tongue Russian traditional 19718
The soldier and the devil Russian traditional 19236
Crystal Mountain Russian traditional 22433
Tricky Science Russian traditional 24238
Smart guy Russian traditional 19274
Snow Maiden and Fox Russian traditional 54923
Word Russian traditional 19266
Fast messenger Russian traditional 19212
Seven Simeons Russian traditional 19204
About the old grandmother Russian traditional 20772
Go there - I don’t know where, bring something - I don’t know what Russian traditional 44122
By pike command Russian traditional 60458
Rooster and millstones Russian traditional 19206
Shepherd's Piper Russian traditional 24612
Petrified Kingdom Russian traditional 19275
ABOUT rejuvenating apples and living water Russian traditional 31993
Goat Dereza Russian traditional 29719
Ilya Muromets and Nightingale the Robber Russian traditional 23990
Cockerel and bean seed Russian traditional 48122
Ivan – peasant son and miracle-yudo Russian traditional 24941
Three Bears Russian traditional 410388
Fox and black grouse Russian traditional 21284
Tar barrel Russian traditional 65514
Baba Yaga and berries Russian traditional 32893
Fight on Kalinov Bridge Russian traditional 19867
Finist-clear falcon Russian traditional 46343
Princess Nesmeyana Russian traditional 115832
Tops and roots Russian traditional 49530
Winter hut of animals Russian traditional 36023
flying ship Russian traditional 63921
Sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka Russian traditional 32848
Golden comb cockerel Russian traditional 39999
Zayushkin's hut Russian traditional 118580

Types of Russian folk tales

Folk tales are basically divided into three categories. These are tales about animals, everyday life and fairy tales.

Russian folk tales about animals- these are some of the most ancient types of fairy tales that exist, their roots go back to the times Ancient Rus'. These fairy tales contain vivid and very memorable images; from childhood we all remember about Kolobok or Turnip, and thanks to such bright images the child learns to understand good and evil. Learns to distinguish character traits and lines of behavior: a fox is cunning, a bear is clumsy, a bunny is cowardly, and so on. Although the world of folk tales is fictional, it is so alive and vibrant that it fascinates and knows how to teach children only good deeds.

Russians everyday tales - these are fairy tales that are filled with the realism of our Everyday life. And they are so close to life that when delving into these fairy tales, be careful, because this line is so thin that your growing child will want to embody and experience some of the actions on himself or carry them out in real life.

Russian fairy tales- this is a world in which magic and the evil associated with it takes on very terrible outlines and vital shades. Fairy tales- this is the search and rescue of a girl, a city or the world entrusted to the shoulders of one hero. But it is the help of many minor characters teaches us, who read these fairy tales, about mutual assistance to each other. Read and listen to folk tales online with us.

Fairy tales - poetic stories about extraordinary events and adventures, featuring fictional characters. In modern Russian, the concept of the word “fairy tale” has acquired its meaning since the 17th century. Until that point, the word "fable" was supposedly used in this meaning.

One of the main features of a fairy tale is that it is always based on an invented story, with a happy ending, where good defeats evil. The stories contain a certain hint that enables the child to learn to recognize good and evil and to comprehend life through clear examples.

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Reading fairy tales is one of the main and important stages on your child's path to life. Various stories make it clear that the world around us is quite contradictory and unpredictable. By listening to stories about the adventures of the main characters, children learn to value love, honesty, friendship and kindness.

Reading fairy tales is useful not only for children. Having grown up, we forget that in the end good always triumphs over evil, that all adversity is nothing, and a beautiful princess is waiting for her prince on a white horse. Give a little Have a good mood and plunge into fairy world simple enough!

Fairy tales for children are very effective remedy education. Probably few people will argue with this statement. The importance of books for full development is difficult to overestimate. By listening to a story or poem, a child can not only learn something new - he gets the opportunity to fantasize, think, learn to highlight the main thing and distinguish bad from good. On the development of mental processes such as memory, thinking, imagination, speech perception, emotional sphere there is no need to talk at all.

Many parents often ask themselves the question: “How often should you read fairy tales?” Teachers and psychologists answer the same: “The more often, the better.” You can use any opportunity when mom or dad is with the child and has a free minute. In the car, at the dacha, in line at the children's clinic, at the bus stop public transport– You can find time to read anywhere. Of course, there is not always a suitable book for children in your purse, but there is one very convenient and affordable way Always have a whole arsenal of fairy tale texts with you. It is enough just to have access to the Internet and the ability to open a page of our website through a tablet, phone or any other device.

Our website contains best fairy tales classical writers, Russian folk, as well as works of foreign authors. For the youngest book lovers, online Russian folk tales “Teremok”, “Turnip”, “Three Bears” and others will be of interest. From the huge number of collected works folk art, and this is more than 500 fairy tales, every parent will find the text of a fairy tale that will be interesting to his child. There are literary creations about animals, witches, Ivan the Fool, husband and wife, heroes and whole line stories on Orthodox themes.

Instructive stories of L.N. Tolstoy, lyrics by A.S. Pushkin, stories on zoological topics by V.V. Bianki, fairy tales in verse by K.I. Chukovsky, S.Ya. Marshak is only part of the works loved by many generations of children. It’s not for nothing that teachers advise starting to read fairy tales written by the geniuses of classical Russian literature (age-appropriate, of course) as early as possible. They have a pronounced educational effect, make you think and analyze, transfer the behavior model of the characters to own life. Fairy tales for children in verse are easy to hear, memorable, and very useful for memory development.

One should not think that Russian children will not be interested in fairy tales of foreign origin. Even the little ones visiting kindergarten, are probably already familiar with many famous and beloved heroes. It is enough to name Thumbelina, Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Snow White, Mowgli. Fairy tales online by such authors of foreign world literature as Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling, Astrid Lingard, Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm will not leave indifferent not only children, but also adults.

Reading fairy tales is a must. This is a huge help for parents in the correct, timely development of babies and school-age children. The process itself plays an important role - during reading, psychological harmony of parent-child relationships is created. On our website you will find books for children of any subject; some of them are almost impossible to buy in printed form.

A young and bright month was born in heaven, and on earth, near the old cathedral priest, Leonty the priest, a son was born - a mighty hero; and they named him young Alyosha Popovich - a pretty name. They began to feed and water Alyosha: whoever is a week old, he is like this every day; The new ones are a year old, Alyosha is a week old. Alyosha began to walk along the street, began to play with the little children: whoever he took by the hand - the hand away, whoever by the leg - the leg away; his game was not selfish! Whoever he takes by the middle, he will deprive him of his belly. And Alyosha grew older; I taught him to ask his father and mother for a blessing: to go for a walk in an open field.

Father says:
- Alesha Popovich! You go into an open field; We have people stronger than you; take Maryshka Paranov’s son as your faithful servant.

In the glorious city of Rostov, the Rostov cathedral priest had one and only son. His name was Alyosha, nicknamed Popovich after his father.

Alyosha Popovich did not learn to read and write, did not sit down to read books, but learned from an early age to wield a spear, shoot a bow, and tame heroic horses. Silon Alyosha is not a great hero, but he prevailed with his audacity and cunning. Alyosha Popovich grew up to sixteen years old, and he became bored in his father’s house. He began to ask his father to let him go into an open field, into a wide expanse, to travel freely throughout Rus', to reach the blue sea, to hunt in the forests. His father let him go and gave him a heroic horse, a saber, a sharp spear and a bow with arrows.

Alyosha began to saddle his horse and began to say:
- Serve me faithfully, heroic horse.


The old man had a beautiful daughter, he lived with her quietly and peacefully until he married another woman, and that woman was an evil witch. She disliked her stepdaughter and pestered the old man:
- Drive her out of the house so that I don’t even see her.

The old man took it and gave his daughter in marriage. She lives with her husband and is happy, and they have a boy.

- Afonka! Where have you been, how did you escape from me?

In your village, sir, he was lying under a peasant’s barn.

Well, what if the barn broke out?

I would have pushed him away.

What if the barn caught fire?

I would like to warm myself, sir.

So, do you know my village?

Once upon a time there was an old man and an old woman; they had no children. No matter what they did, no matter how they prayed to God, the old woman still did not give birth. Once an old man went into the forest to pick mushrooms; comes his way old grandfather. “I know,” he says, “what’s on your mind; you keep thinking about children. Go around the village, collect an egg from each yard and plant a chook on those eggs; you’ll see what happens!” The old man returned to the village; in their village there were forty-one courtyards; So he went around all the yards, collected an egg from each and planted a hook on forty-one eggs. Two weeks passed, the old man looked, the old woman looked, and from those testicles boys were born; forty strong, healthy ones, but one failed - frail and weak!

The woman took a jar of butter to town to sell; It was time to get to the oil shop. Two soldiers catch up with her: one stayed behind, and the other ran ahead and asked the woman:

Hey, auntie, give me a boost, please.

The woman got off the cart and began to belt it.

Once upon a time there lived a husband and wife, and they had a daughter. The wife fell ill and died. The man grieved and grieved and married someone else.

The evil woman disliked the girl, beat her, scolded her, and only thought about how to completely destroy her. One day the father left somewhere, and the stepmother said to the girl:

Go to my sister, your aunt, ask her for a needle and thread - to sew you a shirt.

And this aunt was Baba Yaga, the bone leg. The girl didn’t dare refuse, she went and first went to see her own aunt.

There lived a cat, a sparrow and a third one. The cat and the sparrow went to chop wood and said to the cowgirl:

Be a housewife and look: if Yaga Baba comes and starts counting spoons, don’t say anything, be silent!

Okay,” answered the fireman. The cat and the sparrow left, and the fireman sat down on the stove behind the chimney. Suddenly Baba Yaga appears, takes the spoons and counts:

This is the cat's spoon, this is the sparrow's spoon, the third is Zhikharkov's.


You looked at the site category Russian folk tales. Here you will find full list Russian fairy tales from Russian folklore. Long-known and beloved characters from folk tales will greet you here with joy, and once again tell you about their interesting and entertaining adventures.

Russian folk tales are divided into the following groups:

Animal Tales;

Fairy tales;

Everyday tales.

Heroes of Russian folk tales are often represented by animals. So the wolf always represented a greedy and evil person, a fox a cunning and savvy person, a bear a strong and kind person, and a hare a weak and cowardly person. But the moral of these stories was that you should not hang a yoke on even the most evil hero, because there can always be a cowardly hare who can outwit the fox and defeat the wolf.

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Russian folk tale plays and educational role. Good and evil are clearly delineated and give a clear answer to a specific situation. For example, Kolobok, who ran away from home, considered himself independent and brave, but a cunning fox got in his way. A child, even the smallest one, will come to the conclusion that he, too, could be in the place of the kolobok.

The Russian folk tale is suitable even for the youngest children. And as the child grows up, there will always be a suitable instructive Russian fairy tale that can give a hint or even an answer to a question that the child cannot yet solve for himself.

Thanks to the beauty of Russian speech Russian folk tales read pure pleasure. They store and folk wisdom and light humor, which are skillfully intertwined in the plot of each tale. Reading fairy tales to children is very useful, as it replenishes lexicon child and helps him in the future to formulate his thoughts correctly and clearly.

There is no doubt that Russian fairy tales will allow adults to plunge into the world of childhood and magical fantasies for many happy minutes. A fairy tale on the wings of a magical firebird will take you into an imaginary world and will more than once make you break away from everyday problems. All fairy tales are presented for review absolutely free of charge.

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